Map of Northumberland borough

Northumberland is a borough in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,804 at the 2010 census.

Northumberland borough overview:
Name:	Northumberland borough
LSAD Code:	21
LSAD Description:	borough (suffix)
State:	Pennsylvania
County:	Northumberland County
Incorporated:	1828
Total Area:	1.61 sq mi (4.17 km²)
Land Area:	1.61 sq mi (4.17 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	3,911
Population Density:	2,429.19/sq mi (937.77/km²)
ZIP code:	17857
Area code:	570 and 272
FIPS code:	4255456

Online Interactive Map

Click on to view map in "full screen" mode.

Northumberland online map. Source: Basemap layers from Google Map, Open Street Map (OSM), Arcgisonline, Wmflabs. Boundary Data from Database of Global Administrative Areas.

Northumberland location map. Where is Northumberland borough?

Northumberland location on the U.S. Map. Where is Northumberland borough. — Northumberland location on the U.S. Map.

Northumberland location on the Pennsylvania map. Where is Northumberland borough. — Location of Northumberland in Pennsylvania.

History

A brewer named Reuben Haines, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded the town of Northumberland in 1772, attempting to set it up as an English village. The land that became Northumberland was purchased from the Iroquois in the first Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768, and the village was laid out in 1772. During the American Revolution, Northumberland was evacuated during the Big Runaway in 1778, and only finally resettled in 1784.

Northumberland was the American home of eighteenth-century British theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, educator, and political theorist Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) from 1794 until his death in 1804. The Joseph Priestley House still stands on Priestley Avenue and is a National Historic Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and a museum administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. There is one other property in the borough on the NRHP: the Priestley-Forsyth Memorial Library, built by a great grandson of Joseph Priestley. Much of the borough is part of the Northumberland Historic District, which is also on the NRHP.

Northumberland Road Map

Northumberland city Satellite Map

Geography

Northumberland is located at 40°53′38″N 76°47′46″W / 40.89389°N 76.79611°W / 40.89389; -76.79611 (40.893935, -76.795975), approximately 60 miles northeast of Harrisburg. It sits at the confluence of the north and west branches of the Susquehanna River.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km), all land.