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Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
Northumberland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 94,528.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/42/42097.html )〕 Its county seat is Sunbury.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was formed in 1772 from parts of Lancaster, Berks, Bedford, Cumberland, and Northampton Counties and named for the county of Northumberland in northern England. Northumberland County is a fifth class county according to the Pennsylvania's County Code.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PA County Code Newspaper Handbook )〕
Northumberland County comprises the Sunbury, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Bloomsburg-Berwick-Sunbury, PA Combined Statistical Area.
Among its famous residents, Joseph Priestley, the enlightenment chemist and theologian, left England in 1796 due to religious persecution and settled on the Susquehanna River. His former house (originally purchased by chemists from Pennsylvania State University after a colloquium that founded the American Chemical Society〔() 〕) is a historical museum.〔(Joseph Priestley House ). Joseph Priestley House. Retrieved on 2013-07-23.〕
==History==
By 1813 the area once comprising the sprawling county of Northumberland had been divided over time and allotted to other counties such that lands once occupied by Old Northumberland at its greatest extent are now found in Centre, Columbia, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mifflin, Union, Clearfield, Clinton, Montour, Bradford, Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Wyoming, Tioga, Potter, McKean, Warren, Venango, Snyder, and Schuylkill Counties.
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