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Bucks County, PA

Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Bucks Courthouse.JPG
Bucks County Courthouse
Map of Pennsylvania highlighting Bucks County
Location in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania
Map of the United States highlighting Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's location in the U.S.
Founded November 1682
Named for Buckinghamshire
Seat Doylestown
Largest township Bensalem
Area
 • Total 622 sq mi (1,611 km2)
 • Land 604 sq mi (1,564 km2)
 • Water 18 sq mi (47 km2), 2.8%
Population (est.)
 • (2015) 627,367
 • Density 1,039/sq mi (401/km²)
Congressional district 8th
Time zone Eastern: UTC-5/-4
Website www.buckscounty.org
Footnotes:
Designated October 29, 1982

Bucks County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 625,249, making it the fourth-most populous county in Pennsylvania and the 98th-most populous county in the United States. The county seat is Doylestown. The county is named after the English county of Buckinghamshire.

Bucks County is included in the PhiladelphiaCamdenWilmington, PA–NJDEMD Metropolitan Statistical Area, more commonly known as the "Delaware Valley". It is located immediately northeast of Philadelphia and forms part of the southern tip of the eastern state border.

Bucks County is one of the three original counties created by colonial proprietor William Penn in 1682. Penn named the county after Buckinghamshire, the county where he lived in England. He built a country estate called Pennsbury Manor in Falls Township, Bucks County.

Some places in Bucks County were named after locations in Buckinghamshire, including Buckingham Township, named after the county town of Buckinghamshire; Chalfont, named after Chalfont St Giles, the parish home of William Penn's first wife and the location of the Jordans Quaker Meeting House, where Penn is buried; Solebury Township, named after Soulbury, England; and Wycombe, named after the town of High Wycombe.


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