Meshoppen, Pennsylvania
| Borough of Meshoppen | |
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| Borough | |
Meshoppen's Old White Mill
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 Location of Meshoppen in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. |
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.svg) Location of Pennsylvania in the United States |
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| Coordinates: 41°36′53″N 76°02′47″W / 41.61472°N 76.04639°WCoordinates: 41°36′53″N 76°02′47″W / 41.61472°N 76.04639°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Wyoming |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Floyd Newhart |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.78 sq mi (2.01 km2) |
| • Land | 0.69 sq mi (1.79 km2) |
| • Water | 0.09 sq mi (0.22 km2) |
| Elevation | 623 ft (190 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 563 |
| • Estimate (2016) | 548 |
| • Density | 793.05/sq mi (306.31/km2) |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP Code | 18630 |
| Area code(s) | 570 Exchange: 833 |
| FIPS code | 42-48856 |
| Website | www |
Meshoppen is a borough in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 563 at the 2010 census.
Meshoppen comes from the Unami-Len'api term Mel'ansch'pen'ing or the Minsi-Len'api term Mech'mel'an'unk which means "place of beads". The area was lightly settled by the Minsi-Len'api ("scattered people") and members of the Goano'ganochsejeh'eroni or "Big House People" (AKA Iroquois League), specifically Eroni (people) from Onon'yot'a'da ("Standing-stone-place"—modern Oneida, New York) and Onondaga ("Hill-place"—modern Syracuse, New York), from 1740-65.
The Old White Mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Meshoppen is located at 41°36′53″N 76°2′47″W / 41.61472°N 76.04639°W (41.614691, -76.046276).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2), all of it land.
As of the census of 2010, there were 563 people, 190 households, and 128 families residing in the borough. The population density was 804.3 people per square mile (310.5/km²). There were 217 housing units at an average density of 310 per square mile (121.1/km²). The racial makeup of the borough was 89.2% White, 3.7% African American, 0.65% Native American, 0.65% Asian, 4.3% from other races, and 1.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10.1% of the population.
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