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Snyder County, Pennsylvania

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4newspaper titles

0digitized titles

6historic places

1864earliest paper

1855formed

39,736pop. 2020

16cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 4 newspaper titles published in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, with the earliest starting in 1864. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 6 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1977. Most listings are in or near Selinsgrove, Beavertown, Meiserville.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Snyder

Library of Congress

4 newspaper titles

Title	Place	Years
The American Lutheran	York, Selinsgrove	1864–1876
The Adamsburg Herald	Adamsburg	1887–1887
The Adamsburg Weekly Herald	Beaver Springs	1889–1895
The Adamsburg Weekly Herald	Beaver Springs	1898–1899

Source: Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory. “Digitized” links lead to page images on Chronicling America.

Coverage timeline

Newspapers

Each bar is one title’s publication span. brown = digitized on Chronicling America Open-ended runs extend to today.

18601901194319842026

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 6 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

6 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Aline Covered Bridge	Meiserville	Structure	1979
Bridge between Monroe and Penn Townships	Selinsgrove	Structure	1988
Dreese's Covered Bridge	Beavertown	Structure	1979
Gross Bridge	Beavertown	Structure	1977
Selinsgrove Hall and Seibert Hall	Selinsgrove	Building	1979
Snyder, Gov. Simon, Mansion	Selinsgrove	Building	1978

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Snyder was formed in 1855 (1855-12-01) from Union.

SNYDER created from UNION.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Snyder County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
15,035	17,797	17,304	17,129	20,208	22,912	25,922	33,584	37,546	39,736

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 16 of 16 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adamsburg Cemetery	40.74205	-77.20601
Black Oak Ridge Cemetery II	40.74687	-77.28786
Boyer Mennonite Church Cemetery	40.81869	-77.01748
Emanuel Cemetery	40.72192	-77.01429
Evergreen Cemetery	40.76609	-76.93591
Evergreen Cemetery	40.79503	-76.8721
Fairview Cemetery	40.76536	-76.94355
Glendale Cemetery	40.79424	-77.04402
Globe Mills Cemetery	40.79765	-76.98723
Guier Cemetery	40.88396	-76.9118
Orchard Hills Cemetery	40.8568	-76.81577
Penns Creek Union Cemetery	40.86352	-77.05314
Pine Swamp Evangelical Methodist Church Cemetery	40.68585	-77.0981
Saint Pauls Cemetery	40.85392	-77.05715
Union Cemetery	40.70868	-77.31054
Union Cemetery	40.80994	-77.19745

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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