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Derry downtown business district An aerial view of Derry Station in 1900. Derry served as the terminal for Pittsburgh commuter trains until 1964, when the Pennsylvania Railroad ceased operating its commuter service. Railroad Days Festival, held annually, serves to remind residents of Derry's railroading heritage. [7]
Map of Montour County, Pennsylvania, United States with township and municipal boundaries highlighting Derry Township is taken from US Census website and modified by Ruhrfisch in April 2006 and Dincher in February 2008.
Derry Township is a township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It surrounds the borough of Derry, which is a separate municipality. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 13,631. [2] It was named after the city of Derry by Scots-Irish settlers. [citation needed]
Derry Township is a township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 24,796 at the 2020 census , [ 3 ] an increase over the figure of 24,679 tabulated in 2010. Hershey , the site of the well-known Hershey's chocolate factory and its affiliated amusement park , is located within the township.
The county is part of the Southwest Pennsylvania region of the state. [a] Formed from, successively, Lancaster, Northumberland, and later Bedford counties, Westmoreland County was founded on February 26, 1773, and was the first county in the colony of Pennsylvania whose entire territorial boundary was located west of the Allegheny Mountains.
As of the census [5] of 2000, there were 7,256 people, 2,946 households, and 2,106 families residing in the township. The population density was 233.3 inhabitants per square mile (90.1/km 2).
Power lines in Derry Township According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 16.4 square miles (42 km 2 ), 16.1 square miles (42 km 2 ) of which is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2 ) (1.47%) of which is water.
Pennsylvania Route 982 (PA 982) is a state highway which runs 32.15 miles across Fayette and Westmoreland counties, in southwestern Pennsylvania.The highway begins at U.S. Route 119 (US 119) in Moyer, Pennsylvania, and runs northward into Westmoreland County, passing through the towns of Youngstown, Latrobe, and Derry before ending at US 22/US 119 near Blairsville.