Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library

Stephen's Guide to Mapping & Government Document Sources is also available as a PDF here. (pdf - 74kb)

Stephen Woods: Social Science Librarian
Office: 2nd Floor, Paterno Library
swoods@psu.edu
(814)865-4861

LArch 414: Snyder, Union, Northumberland & Montour Counties

SoilMap
-- SoilMap provides free and convenient online access to detailed soils information for all of Pennsylvania, as well as a wide variety of other environmental data layers. A suite of simple tools allows users to interact with the online mapping and retrieve a wealth of information about Pennsylvania's natural resources.

PASDA
-- Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA) is Pennsylvania's official public access geospatial information clearinghouse. It provides some current aerial photos that you can load into GOOGLE Earth. Especially useful is the DCNR PAMAP Program file.

Penn Pilot
-- PennPilot is an on-line air photo resource for available stereo aerial photography of Pennsylvania between the 1930s-1970s.

elibrary
-- The elibrary contains current documents from each of the County Planning Offices/Departments on record in their office/department. Many documents are fairly old from municipalities; however there are more up-to-date documents from the county governments.

Community Assessments: a Guide to Data Resources
-- A guide created by the Social Science Library at Penn State to statistics published by PA government statistical agencies.

DataFerrett
-- DataFerrett is a web-based software developed by the U.S. Census Bureau that provides access across the Internet to demographic, economic, environmental, health, and other databases housed in different systems in different agencies and organizations in the federal government.

Community Economic Development (CED) HotReport
-- HotReport shows pertinent economic indicators in unified on-line reports from many data sources. Available Topics Include: industry wages, top industries, top occupation groups, labor force by age, education Levels, income, population pyramid, school enrollment, mortgage averages, occupancy status, ownership rates, housing costs, commute times, means of transportation, public schools, colleges and universities.

Pennsylvania State Data Center
The PaSDC provides a connection between the U.S. Census and the Pennsylvania government and local entities. There are reports available on this site.

American FactFinder
Most current demographic information is available from the American Community Survey. Some mapping capabilities are available through American FactFinder. Use the FACT SHEET first!


Metropolitan Statistical Areas:
census designation for a geographic area that contains economic independence. i.e people live, work and commute in this region.




Census Files:
if you need to find more specific variables and need to use the DATA SETS ... this table provides a description of the different files.

Northumberland County
---- Northumberland County Conservation District
---- Shamokin Creek Restoration Alliance
---- Central Susquehanna Valley Transportation Project

City of Sunbury
---- City of Sunbury River Front Park Project
---- Sunbury Self-Guided Walking Tour

City of Shamokin
---- Dalado Photography - Shamokin Photographs
---- Old Time Shamokin Postcards

Borough of Milton
---- Pictorial History of Milton, PA
---- Milton Self-Guided Walking Tour

Borough of Mount Carmel
---- Welcome to Mount Carmel
---- City of Churches
---- Old Time Mount Carmel Postcards
---- Mount Carmel Self-Guided Walking Tour

Borough of Northumberland
---- Northumberland Self-Guided Walking Tour

Borough of Watsontown
---- history - MyWatsontown

- Northumberland County Historical Society
- The Mahanoy & Mahantongo Historical & Preservation Society
- Milton Historical Society - River Road - Route 405 South - Milton, PA 17847 - Phone: (570) 742-7057

- Degenstein Community Library (Sunbury) - has a local history room
- Milton Public Library
- Montgomery House Warrior Run Area Public Librar (McEwensville)
- The Mount Carmel Public Library
- Priestley-Forsyth Memorial Library (Northumberland)
- Shamokin and Coal Township Public Library

- The Daily Item (Sunbury)
- The News-Item (Shamokin)
- Standard-Journal (Milton)
- Citizen Standard (Valley View)

Schindler's Studios - long time family owned studio photographers, have shot a lot of photos of the area, just don't know what they still have in hand

Snyder County
---- Snyder County Conservation District
---- Snyder County Strategic Comprehensive Plan
---- Central Susquehanna Valley Transportation Project

Borough of Selinsgrove
---- a Selinsgrove photo tour
---- online photo gallery from Studio MSM Photography Gallery 1 | Gallery 2 | Gallery 3 | Susquehanna River Gallery

Snyder County Historical Society

- Snyder County Libraries
- Blough-Weis Library (Susquehanna University) - their Special Collections contains the Russell Gilbert Pennsylvania German Collection

Union County
---- Union County Conservation District

Borough of Lewisburg
---- Lewisburg Downtown Partnership
---- Learning from Lewisburg - walking tour
---- a Lewisburg photo tour
---- Lewisburg Self-Guided Walking Tour

Borough of Mifflinburg
---- Mifflinburg Buggy Museum
---- Mifflinburg Self-Guided Walking Tour

Union County Historical Society

- Union County Library System
---- Public Library for Union County (Lewisburg) - has a Pennsylvania Collection room
---- Herr Memorial Library (Mifflinburg) - has a Pennsylvania Collection room
---- West End Library (Laurelton)

- Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library (Bucknell University)
---- Union County History - Edna M. Sheary Collection
---- Pennsylvania Covered Bridges - Nelson F. Davis Photographic Collection

The Mifflinburg Telegraph

Montour County

Borough of Danville
---- history & photos from DanvillePA.com
---- Danville Self-Guided Walking Tour

Montour County Historical Society - P.O. Box 81 - Danville, PA 17821 - Phone: (570) 275-7875

Thomas Beaver Free Library (Danville)

- The Danville News
- Press Enterprise (Danville)

SEDA-COG
(Susquehanna Economic Development Association - Council of Governments)

Susquehanna Greenway Partnership

Susquehanna River Basin Commission
---- map gallery

Susquehanna River Trail Association

The Linn Conservancy

Central Pennsylvania Conservancy

Northcentral Pennsylvania Conservancy
---- Lower West Branch Susquehanna River Conservation Plan

Central PA Magazine

Susquehanna Life Magazine

Coal Region of Pennsylvania
---- pictures
---- gotta love their Official Coal Region Dictionary

Valleys of the Susquehanna
---- cultural and tourism site, with several themed road trips

Official County Historical Societies of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Public Libraries

Pennsylvania State Archives
---- online research guides

Center for Rural Pennsylvania
---- good source for rural demographics in PA

Cultural Resources Geographic Information System
---- CRGIS is a map-based inventory of the historic and archaeological sites and surveys stored in the files of the Bureau for Historic Preservation (BHP).

ARCH: Pennsylvania's Historic Architecture & Archaeology
---- Database of National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania. Contains actual Register Forms & Inventories, some of which have good quality photos.

Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project

Pennsylvania Historical Marker Program

Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

Pennsylvania Greenways Pennsylvania Land Trust Association
---- maintains an extensive list of useful web links

American Memory (Library of Congress)
---- American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress's digitized American historical materials

Historic American Buildings Survey
Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present

The History of North Central Pennsylvania

- Rt 15 ByWay of the Arts
- Art Thrives on 45

- Joseph Priestley House
- Joseph Priestley Memorial Chapel
- Priestley papers @ Dickinson College (not PSU law school)

The Augusta Regiment - French and Indian War/Revolutionary War reenactors

- The German Heritage Society of the Susquehanna Valley
- Pennsylvania German Society
- The German-Americans
- Blough-Weis Library (Susquehanna University) - their Special Collections contains the Russell Gilbert Pennsylvania German Collection
- Penn State Schuylkill Library: Special Collections - The County Collection contains a wide range of materials on the Pennsylvania Germans, both their culture and their language.

- Our Scotch-Irish Heritage
- The Scotch-Irish in America

- Eastern European Immigration in Appalachian Industry

Ethnic and Immigration History Resources - University of Scranton

Penn State University Libraries - Subject Guides
---- Genealogy & Family History
---- Pennsylvania History
---- Rural Sociology

Iron Heritage Festival

Pennsylvania Covered Bridges - Nelson F. Davis Photographic Collection

- How Lewisburg Became a Canal Port - by J. Orin Oliphant
- The First Steamboats on the Upper Susquehanna River - by J. Orin Oliphant
- Pennsylvania Canal Society - Easton, PA
- National Canal Museum - has an Archive

- Anthracite Heritage Museum - Scranton, PA - has a Library & Archives
- Penn State Schuylkill Library: Special Collections - The County Collection consists of materials relating to the history of Schuylkill County and the Anthracite Coal Region
- Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine
- Eckley Miner's Village
- Dalado Photography - Mining Photos
- Standing the Test of Time - A Photographic Essay on Coal Mining
- Deep In the Mines
- The Official Page For Abandoned Coal Mine Research
- Anthracite Mining in Pennsylvania
- Hard Coal - Last of the Bootleg Miners Documentary - photos
- Coal Region of Pennsylvania
---- pictures
---- gotta love their Official Coal Region Dictionary

- Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania - Strasburg, PA - has Library & Archives
- Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society - maintains an Archive in Lewistown, PA
- Reading Company Technical & Historical Society
- Erie Lackawanna Historical Society
- Anthracite Railroads Historical Society
- Dalado Photography - Train Photos

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