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Dudley is located in southwestern Huntingdon County in the valley of Shoup Run, a west-flowing tributary of the Raystown Branch Juniata River. Pennsylvania Route 913 passes through the borough, leading east (uphill) 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to Broad Top City and west (downstream) 2 miles (3 km) to Coalmont.
The town of Dudley had been a seigneurial borough from the thirteenth century, under the control of the lord of the manor. [2] More modern forms of local government for the town began in 1791 when a body of improvement commissioners was established to pave, light and clean the streets, and supply water. [3]
The Metropolitan Borough of Dudley was created in 1974 from the existing boroughs of Dudley, the Municipal Borough of Stourbridge and the Municipal Borough of Halesowen.. This followed an earlier reorganisation in 1966, as per the provisions of the Local Government Act 1958, which saw an expansion of the three boroughs from the abolition of the surrounding urban districts of Amblecote ...
Boroughs designated in the table below with a dagger (†) are home rule municipalities and are also found in the List of Pennsylvania municipalities and counties with home rule charters, optional charters, or optional plans. The state classifies these as boroughs for certain purposes, even though they do not operate under the Borough Code in ...
Dudley is the administrative centre of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, governed by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. The borough, which also includes the towns of Halesowen and Stourbridge, had a population of 312,925 as of the 2011 census. In 2012 the Dudley Metropolitan Borough made an unsuccessful bid to receive city status, losing out ...
Huntingdon County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,092. [1] Its county seat is Huntingdon. [2] The county was created on September 20, 1787, mainly from the northern part of Bedford County, plus an addition of territory on the east (Big Valley, Tuscarora Valley) from Cumberland County.
Shiremanstown is a borough in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. Bordered to the north by Hampden Township and to the south by Lower Allen Township, it is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,569 at the time of the 2010 census. [3]
Pennsylvania Route 913 passes through the center of the borough, leading west 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to Dudley and southeast 2 miles (3 km) to Robertsdale, downhill in both directions. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.68 square miles (1.75 km 2), all land. [4]