Millrift, Pennsylvania | |
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| Coordinates: 41°24′32.3″N74°44′34.7″W / 41.408972°N 74.742972°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Pike |
| Township | Westfall |
| Elevation | 466 ft (142 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 18340 |
| Area code(s) | 570 and 272 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1199171 [1] |
Millrift is an unincorporated community that is located in Westfall Township in Pike County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Situated at the intersection of Delaware Drive and Bluestone Boulevard, on the west bank of the Delaware River, northwest of Matamoras, [2] Millrift was settled by James Sawyer, who moved his family from Orange County, New York.
The location was where Bush Kill meets the Delaware River, and eventually became known as Saw-Mill Rift. The Erie Railroad established a crossover for passing trains at the location and nicknamed it Turnover. The United States Postal Service opened a station there in 1884 under the current name of Mill Rift. [3]
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The Delaware Valley, sometimes referred to as Greater Philadelphia or the Philadelphia metropolitan area, is a metropolitan region in the Northeast United States that centers around Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-most populous city, and spans parts of four U.S. states: southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, northern Delaware, and the northern Eastern Shore of Maryland. With a core Metropolitan Statistical Area population of 6.288 million residents and a Combined Statistical Area population of 7.366 million as of the 2020 census, the Delaware Valley is the seventh-largest metropolitan region in the nation, the eighth-largest metropolitan region in North America, and the 35th-largest metropolitan region in the world.
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Pennsylvania Route 963 was a 3.95-mile (6.36 km) long state highway located in Pike County. The route began at an intersection with U.S. Route 6 and U.S. Route 209 in the Borough of Matamoras, which is settled on the New York state line. PA 963 continued northward for the length of Mill Rift Road up to the community of Millrift, Pennsylvania, where the designation ended. The route was assigned in the 1928 numbering of state highways in the commonwealth and was decommissioned eighteen years later. The designation was later replaced by Pike County Quadrant Route 1017, which heads along the same alignment as PA 963. Geographically, PA 963 and current day 1017 are the easternmost state highways in Pennsylvania.
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