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Columbia County
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county in Pennsylvania, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Founded
- March 22, 1813
- Named after
- Columbia
- Seat
- Bloomsburg
- Largest town
- Bloomsburg
- Total
- 490 sq mi (1,300 km )
- Land
- 483 sq mi (1,250 km )
- Water
- 7.1 sq mi (18 km ) 1.4%
- Estimate 2025
- 66,193
- Density
- 134/sq mi (51.7/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 9th
- Website
- www .columbiapa .org
- Designated
- July 11, 1983
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Christopher Columbus
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Pennsylvania
- Capital
- Bloomsburg
- Population
- 64727
- Area
- 1269
- Shares border with
- Lycoming County
- Official website
- www.columbiapa.org
- Image
- Columbia County, Pennsylvania court house.JPG
- Households
- 26482
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- topic's main category
- Category:Columbia County, Pennsylvania
- Commons category
- Columbia County, Pennsylvania
- inception
- 1813-03-22
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Columbia County, Pennsylvania
- different from
- Columbia County
- water as percent of area
- 1.4
- native label
- Columbia County
- per capita income
- 28051
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Encyclopedic overview
Columbia County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,727. Its county seat is Bloomsburg. The county was created on March 22, 1813, from part of Northumberland County. It was named Columbia, alluding to the United States and Christopher Columbus. The county is part of the Central region of the commonwealth.
Columbia County is part of the Bloomsburg–Berwick metropolitan area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Columbia County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.