Bloomsburg

town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States

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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 )
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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.