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In 1696, governor Fletcher authorized purchases of Indian land near the New York border by a number of citizens of Ulster County; their descendants became the first European settlers of what became Pike County. Nicholas Depui was the first to settle in the area, in 1725. Thomas Quick moved to the area that would become Milford in 1733.
The Allegheny National Forest is a National Forest located in northwestern Pennsylvania. The forest covers over 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2) of land. Consisting of the following counties: Forest; Elk; Warren; McKean
Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as rural America, [1] consist of approximately 97% of the United States' land area. An estimated 60 million people, or one in five residents (17.9% of the total U.S. population), live in rural America. Definitions vary from different parts of the United States government as to what constitutes ...
A road in Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 13. Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 13 consists of a single parcel located at and have an area of 49,529 acres It and the adjacent Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 57 together comprise an area of nearly 100,000 acres in four counties, making them the largest tract of continuous state game lands in Pennsylvania. [2]
One of Erie County's sixteen original townships, Fairview Township was established in 1797. It reportedly took its name from the utterance that year of a businessman, Colonel Thomas Forster, who said of his land purchase at the mouth of Walnut Creek: "This is the fairest view I have seen yet."
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 22.8 square miles (59.0 km 2), of which 22.6 square miles (58.5 km 2) is land and 0.2 square mile (0.5 km 2) (0.92%) is water. The Limerick Nuclear Power Plant is located within its borders, along with Heritage Field Airport.
The village includes land in Will County's Plainfield and Wheatland townships, as well as Na-Au-Say and Oswego townships in Kendall County. With the growth in the Chicago suburbs in the 1990s and 2000s, the village has seen a population increase, from 4,500 in 1990 to 28,000 in 2000 to nearly 45,000 in 2016.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2), all land. Milford is located on the Upper Delaware River, which divides Pennsylvania's Poconos region from the Catskill Mountains in New York, in what was historically a heavily-forested area.