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Wayne County
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county in Pennsylvania, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Founded
- March 21, 1798
- Named after
- Anthony Wayne
- Seat
- Honesdale
- Largest borough
- Honesdale
- Total
- 751 sq mi (1,950 km )
- Land
- 726 sq mi (1,880 km )
- Water
- 25 sq mi (65 km ) 3.3%
- Estimate 2025
- 51,703
- Density
- 70.5/sq mi (27.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 8th
- Website
- waynecountypa .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Wayne County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The county's population was 51,155 at the 2020 census. The county seat is the Borough of Honesdale. The county was formed from part of Northampton County on March 21, 1798, and was named for the Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne. The county is part of the Northeast Pennsylvania and Pocono Mountains region of the state.
The Lehigh River, a 109-mile-long (175 km) tributary of the Delaware River, begins in southern Wayne County.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wayne County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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