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Bloomsburg
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town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Columbia
- Town of bloomsburg
- March 4, 1870
- Mayor
- Justin Hummel (D)
- Total
- 4.69 sq mi (12.14 km )
- Land
- 4.35 sq mi (11.26 km )
- Water
- 0.34 sq mi (0.88 km ) 7.22%
- Elevation
- 531 ft (162 m)
- Density
- 2,923.6/sq mi (1,128.81/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( EDT )
- Area codes
- 570 and 272
- Fips code
- 42-07128
- Website
- bloomsburgpa .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Bloomsburg
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Columbia County
- Population
- 12711
- Area
- 12.143366
- Elevation
- 531
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Body of water
- Susquehanna River
- Capital of
- Columbia County
- Official website
- www.bloomsburgpa.org
- Image
- Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania town hall.JPG
- Households
- 5032
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- Commons category
- Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
- postal code
- 17815
- inception
- 1797-00-00
- water area
- 0.87647
- water as percent of area
- 7.2177
- per capita income
- 21193
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Bloomsburg is a town in and the county seat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania and is located 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Wilkes-Barre along the Susquehanna River. As of the 2020 census, Bloomsburg had a population of 12,711.
Bloomsburg is one of two principal communities of the Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan area that covers all of Columbia county, and had a combined population of 67,295 at the 2010 census.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bloomsburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.