Norristown, Pennsylvania
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 Center of Norristown |
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| Location in Pennsylvania | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1812 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Pennsylvania | ||
| County : | Montgomery County | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 7 ′ N , 75 ° 21 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 34,324 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 3,771.9 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 9.1 km 2 (approx. 4 mi 2 ) of which 9.1 km 2 (approx. 4 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 48 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 19401, 19403-19409, 19487-19489 | ||
| Area code : | +1 610 | ||
| FIPS : | 42-54656 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1213641 | ||
| Website : | www.norristown.org | ||
Norristown is a municipality in Montgomery County in the southeastern US state of Pennsylvania with 34,324 inhabitants (as of 2010 ).
Norristown was founded in 1812 and is the county seat of Montgomery County. The parish is on the Schuylkill River , about 30 km northwest of Philadelphia and about 5 km northeast of King of Prussia . In 2000 Norristown had a population density of 3421.5 people / km² and an area of 9.1 km².
Norristown was named after Isaac Norris , a member of the Pennsylvania Colonial Council who commissioned the manufacture of the Liberty Bell . The area in which Norristown is today was given to Norris by William Penn , the founder of Pennsylvania, and was named after him, originally Williamstadt .
The city was originally settled by the English, but also some Germans, Scots, Dutch and Swedes. Large groups of Irish followed in the middle of the 19th century and, at the turn of the century, Italians too.
Norristown is the location of Alice Sebold's novel In My Heaven . The 2009 film adaptation of the same name also takes place in Norristown.
sons and daughters of the town
- Maria Bello (* 1967), American actress of Italian-Polish descent
- Tommy Campbell (born 1957), jazz drummer
- Otis Charles (1926-2013), Anglican bishop
- Tommy Lasorda (* 1927), baseball player, manager
- Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987), bassist
- George Bryan Porter (1791–1834), Territory of Michigan Governor
- Lisa Raymond (* 1973), tennis player
- Cam Reddish (born 1999), basketball player
- Richard Schweiker (1926–2015), politician, United States Secretary of Health
- Jimmy Smith (1928–2005), jazz and blues organist
- Jerry Spinelli (* 1941), author of books for young people and novels for young adults
- Maria T. Zuber (* 1958), planetologist and geophysicist
Panoramic view
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Individual evidence
- ^ Demographic and Information Packet - Montgomery County Planning Commission (MCPC); http://webapp.montcopa.org/planning/dataportal/pdfs/2012demogentiredocument.pdf , page 8
- ^ Jean Barth Toll, Michael J. Schwager: Montgomery County: The Second Hundred Years . Montgomery County Federation of Historical Societies, 1983, page 464 ISBN 0961241829