Widnoon, Pennsylvania
Widnoon, Pennsylvania | |
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Unincorporated community | |
Coordinates: 40°57′40″N 79°28′02″W / 40.96111°N 79.46722°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Pennsylvania |
County | Armstrong |
Township | Madison |
Elevation | 1,434 ft (437 m) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP code | 16261 |
Area code | 724 |
GNIS feature ID | 1191376[1] |
Widnoon is an unincorporated community located practically in the center of Madison Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States.[1] The community is 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Templeton. Widnoon had its own post office from March 22, 1880, to February 3, 2005.[2] It still has its own ZIP code, 16261.[3][4]
History
Duncanville, later called Widnoon, appears in the 1876 Atlas of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.[5][6] Duncanville was named after James Duncan who established a store there in 1854.[7]
The United Brethren and the Presbyterians had organized churches here and houses of worship in 1878 which were no longer in use by 1913.[6]
Widnoon lies on tract No. 314, covered by warrant 2868, called "Elliott Grove," which adjoined the original line between Toby and Red Bank townships on the east. This tract was originally owned by Willink & Co., Wilhelm Willink being one of several Dutch investors in the Holland Land Company.
References
- ^ a b "Widnoon". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
- ^ United States Postal Service. "USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code". Retrieved December 20, 2014.
- ^ "Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code". United States Postal Service. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
- ^ "Atlas of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, page 49". Pomeroy, Whitman & Co. 1876. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ a b "Armstrong County, PA: Her People, Past and Present, Chapter 35, page 260". Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. 1914. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ Robert Walter Smith (1883). "History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Chapter 12, page 282" (PDF). Chicago: Waterman, Watkins. Retrieved 7 November 2018.