Pike County, Pennsylvania
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 Location in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania |
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 Pennsylvania's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | March 8, 1814 | |
| Named for | Zebulon Pike | |
| Seat | Milford | |
| Largest borough | Matamoras | |
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| • Total | 567 sq mi (1,469 km2) | |
| • Land | 545 sq mi (1,412 km2) | |
| • Water | 22 sq mi (57 km2), 3.9% | |
| Population (est.) | ||
| • (2015) | 55,949 | |
| • Density | 103/sq mi (40/km²) | |
| Congressional district | 10th | |
| Time zone | Eastern: UTC-5/-4 | |
| Website | www |
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Pike County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 57,369. Its county seat is Milford.
Pike County is included in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In 2006, Pike County was the fastest-growing county in the state of Pennsylvania.
Pike County was named for General Zebulon Pike. It was organized on March 26, 1814 from part of Wayne County, Pennsylvania. Some English settlement in the area had started during the colonial years.
The longtime original inhabitants were the Lenape Native Americans, known by the English colonists as the Delaware Indians because their territory was along the Delaware River (as named by the colonists), as well as the coastal mid-Atlantic area. In 1694, Governor Benjamin Fletcher of the colony of New York sent Captain Arent Schuyler to investigate claims that the French were recruiting Indian allies for use against the English. 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.
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