Richland Township (Cambria County, Pennsylvania)

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Richland Township
Map of Richland Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania Highlighted.png
Location in Cambria County
Basic data
Foundation : 1833
State : United States
State : Pennsylvania
County : Cambria County
Coordinates : 40 ° 17 ′  N , 78 ° 51 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 17 ′  N , 78 ° 51 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents : 12,814 (as of 2010)
Population density : 240.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 53.4 km 2  (approx. 21 mi 2 ) of
which 53.3 km 2  (approx. 21 mi 2 ) is land
Area code : +1 814
Website : www.richlandtwp.com

Richland Township is a township in Cambria County , Pennsylvania , United States . The township was founded in 1833 and is located between the cities of Johnstown in the northwest and Windber in the south. It has an area of ​​around 53 km², in 2010 there were 12,814 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census ).

history

The Richland Township emerged in 1833 from the southern part of Conemaugh Township , which was founded in 1801 . In the first half of the 19th century, farmers in the township intensified their trade with the region around the city of Johnstown with the establishment of the infrastructure of the Pennsylvania Canal . Sawmills emerged and more and more acreage was opened up through clearing .

At the end of the 19th century, the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company bought large parts of the land in Cambria County and the neighboring Somerset County to mine hard coal here in the Allegheny Mountains . With the Eureka Mine No. 37 and 40 were built on the border with Somerset County of a total of 13 mines and two in Richland Township. The mines operated until the early 1960s. The mine complex of Eureka Mine No. 40, which is partially located at Scalp Level in Somerset County, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 along with the former homes of the miners as the Berwind-White Mine 40 Historic District (NRHP #: 92000392).

In 1927, the University of Pittsburgh Junior College at Johnstown was the first regional college of the University of Pittsburgh in Johnstown . In the early 1960s, the Wilmore Coal Company - a subsidiary of the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company - donated 136 acres of land in the southern part of Richland Township for the construction of a new campus for what is now the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ), which opened in 1967 and is the University of Pittsburgh's largest regional campus. Today around 3,000 students study here and there have been over 20,000 graduates since it was founded in 1927.

Johnstown-Cambria County Airport

In the northern part of Richland Township, five kilometers northeast of Johnstown, the regional airport John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport, named after the politician John Murtha , went into operation in 1948 ( IATA airport code : JST). It has two runways measuring 2.1 and 1.3 kilometers in length and is served by Silver Airways , which has daily flights to Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) and Du Bois / Jefferson County Airport (DUJ).

Units from the Pennsylvania Army National Guard and Pennsylvania Air National Guard are also stationed at the airport, as well as some reserve units from the United States Marine Corps .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pennsylvania: 2010, Population and Housing Unit Counts. US Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration, 2012. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
  2. ^ History of Richland Township. Richland Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
  3. ^ Mildred Allen Beik: The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s. Penn State Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0271029900 , pp. 9-14.
  4. ↑ Eureka No. 37. ( Memento from December 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) and Eureka No. 40. ( February 14, 2015 memento on the Internet Archive ) Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania.
  5. ↑ Gerald M. Kuncio: Berwind-White Mine 40 Historic District - National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. United State Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1992.
  6. ↑ Randy Whittle: Johnstown, Pennsylvania: A History, Part Two: 1937-1980. The History Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59629-052-5 , pp. 93-97.
  7. ↑ About Pitt-Johnstown. University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
  8. ↑ JOHN MURTHA JOHNSTOWN-CAMBRIA CO. US Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  9. ↑ Flight Schedule. ( February 15, 2015 memento on the Internet Archive ) John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport.
  10. ↑ Airport History. ( February 15, 2015 memento on the Internet Archive ) John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport.