Ads
related to: blue knob duncansville
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
16635 (Duncansville) Area codes: 814/582: FIPS code: 42-07272: GNIS feature ID: 2805467 [2] Blue Knob is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) ...
The township includes the census-designated place of Blue Knob, plus parts of the CDPs of Puzzletown and Foot of Ten. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 26.1 square miles (67.7 km 2), of which 26.1 square miles (67.5 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2), or 0.21%, is water. [3]
SR 3012 (old U.S. 22), 2 miles W of Duncansville (Missing) Roadside Coal, Iron Juniata Iron: April 1, 1947: SR 3012 (old U.S. 22), 2 miles W of Duncansville (Missing) Roadside Environment Leap-The-Dips Roller Coaster: November 28, 2000: Lakemont Park 700 Park Ave., Altoona
Duncansville is a borough in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Altoona, Pennsylvania metropolitan statistical area. The population was ...
Claysburg is a census-designated place (CDP) along Interstate 99 and the Allegheny Front in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States, situated near the base of Blue Knob. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 1,291.
Blue Knob was thought to be the highest mountain in Pennsylvania until 1921, when the U.S. Geological Survey determined a summit of 3,213 feet (979 m) was higher (later named Mount Davis). In the 1950s the summit was cleared of vegetation and was the location of Claysburg Air Force Station until it was deactivated in 1961.
The wind farm was built by Gamesa and encompasses parts of Cambria and Blair counties north of Blue Knob Mountain near Altoona. It officially became operational in June 2007 and has 40 wind turbines , each of a 2 MW nameplate capacity , for a total maximum production of 80 megawatts of electricity.
Puzzletown is found at the bottom of a valley which leads up to Blue Knob, the second-highest mountain in the state and part of the Allegheny Front, the eastern edge of the Appalachian Plateau. It is a rural area with a population of three to five hundred at its most liberal definition and less than one hundred at its most restrictive.