Piscataquis County
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US state : | Maine |
Administrative headquarters : | Dover-Foxcroft |
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Demographics | |
Residents : | 17,535 (2010) |
Population density : | 1.7 inhabitants / km 2 |
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Total area : | 11,337 km² |
Water surface : | 1065 km² |
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Piscataquis County is a county in the state of Maine in the United States . Piscataquis County is the least densely populated part of Maine. The county seat, Shire Town, is Dover-Foxcroft . Piscataquis comes from the Abenaki language and means arm of the river .
geography
According to the US Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 11,337 square kilometers. Of this, 1,065 square kilometers, or 9.39 percent, are water areas.
The county has Maine's highest mountain within its boundaries: Mount Katahdin at 1,606 m (5273 feet ) above sea level. Mount Katadin is also the centerpiece of Baxter State Park , a vast wildlife sanctuary that bears around 80,000 visitors annually and stretches across the border with Penobscot County. The Appalachian Trail also begins on Mount Katadin, more precisely: on the highest of its three peaks .
The landscape, shaped by the Ice Age, is not only shaped by the Appalachian mountain ranges , which rise on average between 700 and 800 meters high, but also by large lake plateaus. The largest lakes are Pemadumcook Lake , Moosehead Lake , Chamberlain Lake, and Chesuxcook Lake . Transport connections are little developed. In addition to the few overland roads, river boats and airplanes are the most important means of transport. Only in the flatter south of the county, where the administrative center is located, are there fixed train connections with passenger transport; in the rest of the county, rich in forests, there are almost exclusively industrial railways for timber transport.
Most of the villages that are widely distributed in the area are correspondingly small. They are often no larger than 200 to 300 inhabitants. Some of these places therefore merged into larger administrative units, but without losing their independence. The largest of these administrative units is the "Three Rivers Community Alliance", which brings together eight towns with a population of 43 to 2,383 inhabitants (the latter is Milo , the second largest town in the county). The county is bordered clockwise by the counties: Aroostook County , Penobscot County, and Somerset County .
history
55 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of November 11, 2017).
Demographic data
growth of population | |||
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Census | Residents | ± in% | |
1840 | 13,138 | - | |
1850 | 14,735 | 12.2% | |
1860 | 15,032 | 2% | |
1870 | 14,403 | -4.2% | |
1880 | 14,872 | 3.3% | |
1890 | 16,134 | 8.5% | |
1900 | 16,949 | 5.1% | |
1910 | 19,887 | 17.3% | |
1920 | 20,554 | 3.4% | |
1930 | 18,231 | -11.3% | |
1940 | 18,467 | 1.3% | |
1950 | 18,617 | 0.8% | |
1960 | 17,379 | -6.6% | |
1970 | 16,285 | -6.3% | |
1980 | 17,634 | 8.3% | |
1990 | 18,653 | 5.8% | |
2000 | 17,235 | -7.6% | |
2010 | 17,535 | 1.7% | |
Before 1900
1900–1990 2000 + 2010 |
The county had a population of 17,235 as of the 2000 census . There were 7,278 households and 4,854 families. The population density was 2 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 97.84% White, 0.21% African American, 0.52% Native American, 0.27% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, and 0.14% other races Groups; 1.00% were from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.52% of the population.
Of the 7,278 households, 28.60% had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. 54.10% were married couples living together, 8.40% were single mothers. 33.30% were not families. 27.80% are single households and 14.00% have someone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.83 people.
For the entire county, the population was composed of 23.40% residents under 18 years of age, 5.70% between 18 and 24 years of age, 26.00% between 25 and 44 years of age, 27.50% between 45 and 64 years of age 17.40% were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 96.40 males, and for every 100 females aged 18 and over there were 95.20 males.
The median income for a household in the county is $ 28,250 , and the median income for a family is $ 34,852. Males had a median income of $ 28,149 versus $ 20,241 for females. The per capita income was $ 14,374. 14.80% of the population and 11.20% of families are below the poverty line. 17.80% of them were under 18 years of age and 13.90% were 65 years of age or older.
cities and communes
Piscataquis County is divided into 18 administrative units; in this county there is no City's , but 16 as are Town and 2 as Plantation organized. One area is a Survey Township and there are 5 Unorganized Territories . The youngest of these is the former town of Atkinson, which was disorganized on July 1, 2019.
Locality | status | Population (2010) |
Total area [km²] |
Land area [km²] |
Population density [inhabitants / km²] |
founding | Specialty |
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Abbot | Town | 714 | 92.5 | 89.4 | 8.0 | January 13, 1827 | |
Beaver Cove | Town | 122 | 84.7 | 82.5 | 1.5 | January 31, 1978 | |
Bow bench | Town | 116 | 122.7 | 108.5 | 1.1 | March 4, 1839 | |
Brownville | Town | 1,250 | 115.6 | 114.0 | 11.0 | February 2, 1824 | |
Dover-Foxcroft | Town | 4.213 | 184.4 | 175.6 | 24.0 | February 29, 1812 | Shire Town of the County |
Greenville | Town | 1,146 | 119.5 | 109.6 | 15.0 | February 26, 1836 | |
Guilford | Town | 1,521 | 92.5 | 90.3 | 16.8 | February 8, 1816 | |
Kingsbury | Plantation | 28 | 115.6 | 114.3 | 0.2 | March 22, 1836 | Kingsbury lost town status in 1886 and was organized as a plantation in 1887 |
Lake View | Plantation | 89 | 137.7 | 107.4 | 0.4 | June 16, 1892 | |
Medford | Town | 254 | 111.8 | 109.6 | 2.3 | January 31, 1824 | |
Milo | Town | 2,340 | 88.0 | 85.4 | 27.4 | January 21, 1823 | |
Monson | Town | 686 | 127.2 | 121.2 | 5.7 | February 8, 1822 | |
Parkman | Town | 843 | 119.3 | 117.2 | 7.2 | January 29, 1822 | |
Sangerville | Town | 1,343 | 102.9 | 99.5 | 13.5 | June 16, 1814 | |
Sebec | Town | 630 | 98.1 | 95.2 | 6.6 | February 28, 1812 | |
Shirley | Town | 233 | 140.2 | 138.1 | 1.7 | March 4, 1834 | |
Wellington | Town | 260 | 103.4 | 103.2 | 2.5 | February 23, 1828 | |
Willimantic | Town | 150 | 124.1 | 111.8 | 1.4 | February 22, 1881 |
- Dover-Foxcroft (CDP) (2,592)
- Greenville (CDP) (1,319)
- Guilford (CDP) (945)
- Milo (CDP) (1,898)
- Atkinson (326)
- Blanchard (83)
- Southeast Piscataquis (254)
- Northeast Piscataquis (347)
- Northwest Piscataquis (159)
- Survey townships
- T1-R9 WELS (0)
Individual evidence
- ↑ GNIS-ID: 581296. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).
- ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed November 11, 2017.
- ↑ US Census Bureau - Census of Population and Housing . Retrieved March 15, 2011
- ↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 28, 2011
- ↑ Excerpt from census.gov (2000 + 2010) ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2011 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 2, 2012
- ↑ Plans being finalized for Atkinson to join the Unorganized Territory ( Memento from July 29, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
- ^ Official website of the Maine administration
Web links
Coordinates: 45 ° 50 ′ N , 69 ° 18 ′ W