
Pennsylvania 2000 Center of Population - Newport, PA
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Ernmark
N 40° 28.848 W 077° 08.006
18T E 319167 N 4483309
Disk located at Veterans Memorial Park in Newport, PA which marks the center of PA population according to the 2000 census.
Waymark Code: WM19BK
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 03/03/2007
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This monument was set in a cooperative project of the National Geodetic Survey, The Boy Scouts of America Troop 117 - Altoona & the PA Society of Land Surveyors.
To reach from Market Street (PA Route 34) & Town Square - proceed NW along 2nd Street for 4 blocks to the end of the street & sign on the left at entrance to ballfield. Travel eastward for 10-15 feet, then northward along outfield fence to the area of the disk. It is located about 20 feet beyond the fence - NE of a bench & pole.