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Pike County, Pennsylvania

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0newspaper titles

0digitized titles

29historic places

—earliest paper

1814formed

58,535pop. 2020

9cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

No newspaper titles for Pike County are listed in the U.S. Newspaper Directory data loaded here. The National Register of Historic Places includes 29 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 2 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Milford, Bushkill, Lackawaxen.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

No titles found in the directory for this county. Search the Library of Congress directory.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

20 of 29 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

29 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Brodhead Farm	Bushkill	Building	1979
Callahan House	Milford	Building	1979
D & H Canal Co. Office	Lackawaxen	Building	1993
Delaware Aqueduct	Lackawaxen	Structure	1968
Dingman's Ferry Dutch Reformed Church	Dingman's Ferry	Building	1979
Forester's Hall	Milford	Building	1983
Gordon, Jervis, Grist Mill Historic District	Milford	District	1985
Grey, Zane, House	Lackawaxen	Building	1983
Grey, Zane, House (Boundary Increase)	Lackawaxen	Building	2011
Hotel Fauchere and Annex	Milford	Building	1980
Lord House	Lords Valley	Building	1980
Metz Ice Plant	Milford	Building	2007
Milford Historic District	Milford	District	1998
Milford Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Milford	District	2002
Mill Rift Hall	Mill Rift	Building	1993
Minisink Archeological Site NHL	Bushkill	Site	1993
Nearpass House	Mill Rift	Building	1993
Nyce Farm	Bushkill	Building	1979
Paupack School	Palmyra Township	Building	2016
Peters House	Bushkill	Building	1979
Pike County Courthouse	Milford	Building	1979
Pinchot, Gifford, House NHL	Milford	District	1966
Pond Eddy Bridge	Pond Eddy	Structure	1988
Promised Land State Park Whittaker Lodge District	Canadensis	District
Promised Land State Park Whittaker Lodge District	Canadensis	District	1987
Promised Land State Park-Bear Wallow Cabins	Canadensis	Building	1987
Shohola Glen Hotel	Shohola	Building	1997
Turn Store and the Tinsmith's Shop	Bushkill	Building	1978
Zimmermann, Marie, Farm	Milford	Building	1979

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Pike was formed in 1814 (1814-10-01) from Wayne.

PIKE created from WAYNE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Pike County population from 1820 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,894	3,832	7,155	9,663	8,766	6,818	7,452	8,425	9,158	18,271	46,302	58,535

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area	National Recreation Area	21.6 km
Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River	Unit of National Park System and National Wild and Scenic Rivers System	31.0 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

9 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 9 of 9 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Delaware Cemetery	41.22689	-74.86979
German Hill Cemetery	41.45917	-74.93833
Milford Cemetery	41.31464	-74.80372
Mount Moriah Cemetery	41.46635	-75.12215
Paupack Cemetery	41.4148	-75.21545
Pine Grove Cemetery	41.26666	-75.33901
Pine Grove Cemetery	41.41114	-75.21563
Travis Cemetery	41.3335	-74.86778
Woodtown Cemetery	41.41151	-74.90013

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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