Bloomsburg

About Bloomsburg

Bloomsburg has the distinction of being the only incorporated town in Pennsylvania. Its incorporation mission started on March 4, 1870. Other municipalities too were then commonly referred to as the towns – they were classified as cities and townships. Bloomsburg emerged from many catastrophes to use the slogan of ‘the only town in Pennsylvania’ over the centuries. The state government described Bloomsburg ‘the only incorporated town in Pennsylvania’ since centuries.

The Bloomsburg Area School District of this city is a symbol of its educational mission. This school has enrolled about 1,800 students from Bloomsburg itself besides having the presence of students from many other western and south-eastern suburbs. The Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical School in Bloomsburg has numerous secondary education trade programmes for its local students.

The Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is one out of the fourteen institutions in Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. This university has about 7,600 undergraduate and 760 graduate students.

As per the United States Census Bureau, Bloomsburg has a total area of 4.6 square miles (12.0 km²), of which 4.4 square miles (11.4 km²) is the land area and 0.2 square miles (0.6 km²) comes under water area.

The 2000 census notes that Bloomsburg has the population of 12,375 people. This city has 4,080 households and 1,791 families. Its population density is 2,818.1 people per square mile. This city has 4,399 housing units at an average density of 1,001.8/sq mi. Its racial makeup has been of 94.42% White, 2.60% African American, 0.20% Native Americans, 1.11% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islanders, 0.72% from other races and 0.91% from two or more races.

The leaflets of history explains that the population of Bloomsburg was 6,170 in 1900, 7,413 in 1910, 9,799 in 1940 and 12,439 in 1990. Bloomsburg is still acknowledged a famous county seat of Columbia County.