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Lock Haven
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city in Pennsylvania, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Clinton County
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- Joel Long ( D )
- Manager
- Abbey Roberts (Interim)
- Total
- 2.67 sq mi (6.91 km )
- Land
- 2.50 sq mi (6.47 km )
- Water
- 0.17 sq mi (0.44 km ) 6.44%
- Elevation
- 561 ft (171 m)
- Density
- 3,250/sq mi (1,254/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( EDT )
- Area codes
- 570 and 272
- Fips code
- 42-44128
- Website
- lockhavenpa .gov (government), lockhaven .org (civil)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Lock Haven
- Population
- 8108
- Area
- 6.910699
- Elevation
- 171
- Official website
- lockhavenpa.gov
- Image
- Clinton County Pennsylvania Courthouse 2 crop.jpg
- Households
- 3441
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- Commons category
- Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
- postal code
- 17745
- inception
- 1769-00-00
- water area
- 0.444993
- water as percent of area
- 6.4392
- per capita income
- 19604
- date of incorporation
- 1870-00-00
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Lock Haven is a city in, and the county seat of, Clinton County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Located near the confluence of the West Branch Susquehanna River and Bald Eagle Creek, it is the principal city of the Lock Haven Micropolitan Statistical Area, itself part of the Williamsport–Lock Haven combined statistical area. At the 2020 census, Lock Haven's population was 8,108.
Built on a site long favored by pre-Columbian peoples, Lock Haven began in 1833 as a timber town and a haven for loggers, boatmen, and other travelers on the river or the West Branch Canal. Resource extraction and efficient transportation financed much of the city's growth through the end of the 19th century. In the 20th century, a light-aircraft factory, a college, and a paper mill, along with many smaller enterprises, drove the economy. Frequent floods, especially in 1972, damaged local industry and led to a high rate of unemployment in the 1980s.