| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Duryea, Pennsylvania ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Duryea, Pennsylvania
Duryea is a borough in the Greater Pittston area of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, south of Scranton situated along the east bank of the Susquehanna, extending up the Lackawanna River from its confluence between the two. Duryea was incorporated as a borough in 1891, and had an import switching rail yard, the Duryea yard (or Muller yard) connecting the central Wyoming Valley to destinations in both east and west lower New York State and down-state Pennsylvania to Harrisburg and the via the Lehigh Valley (Reading Allentown, Philadelphia, et al.). Coal mining and the manufacture of silk were the chief industries in the early years of its existence. The population numbered 7,487 in 1910 in the heyday of Anthracite mining and 8,275 in 1940. The population was 4,917 at the 2010 census.
In 2011, the borough received national attention for its role in the landmark Supreme Court case ''Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri'', in which the court stated that "a government employer's allegedly retaliatory actions against an employee do not give rise to liability under the Petition Clause unless the employee's petition relates to a matter of public concern."
==Geography==
The Borough of Duryea is located at (41.347729, -75.758302), and while irregular, most of its area may be considered to be laid out as a rectangle twisted so the long axis is oriented NW to SE. It spans both banks of the Lackawanna with (60-65%〔60-65% of land is on the steep confluence triangle side by eyeball estimate, using Google maps〕 of its area) the majority of its land area being a mostly forested mountainous slope and a high-elevation reservoir on the west bank stretching several miles where it contains the Duryea rail yard, also along the left or east bank of the Susquehanna drainage basin.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of , of which is land and (3.84%) is water. The Campbells Ledge Reservoir (41.363749,-75.791523)
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Duryea, Pennsylvania」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|