Geography
State Game Lands Number 25 is located in the City of St. Marys, and in Jones and Ridgway Townships in Elk County.
A city is a large human settlement. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process.
St. Marys is a city in Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 13,070 at the 2010 census. Originally a small town inhabited by mostly Bavarian Roman Catholics, it was founded December 8, 1842. It is home to Straub Brewery and the first Benedictine convent in the United States. In 1992, the borough of St. Marys absorbed the surrounding township of Benzinger and incorporated as a city.
Jones Township is a township in Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,624 at the 2010 census. Bendigo State Park and part of Elk State Park are in Jones Township, on the East Branch of the Clarion River.
Nearby communities include the City of Saint Marys, the borough of Johnsonburg, and census-designated places and populated places Boot Jack, Dagus, Dagus Mines, Dahoga, Earlyville, Fairview Glen Hazel, Grandview, Instanter, Kaulmont, Kersey, Ketner, Lynchville, Midmont, Montmorenci, Paine, Rasselas, Rathbun, Ridgeway, Rolfe, Shelvey, Straight Creek, Streights, Swissmont, Tambine, Whistletown, Wilcox, and Williamsville. [2]
In the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a borough is a self-governing municipal entity, best thought of as a town, usually smaller than a city, but with a similar population density in its residential areas. Sometimes thought of as "junior cities", boroughs generally have fewer powers and responsibilities than full-fledged cities.
Johnsonburg is a borough in Elk County, Pennsylvania, 124 miles (200 km) northeast of Pittsburgh and 115 miles (185 km) south of Buffalo, New York, in a productive farming and lumbering region. Paper mills were once common in the borough, with the Domtar mill still operating. In 1910, 4,334 people lived here. The population was 2,483 at the 2010 census.
A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such as self-governing cities, towns, and villages, for the purposes of gathering and correlating statistical data. CDPs are populated areas that generally include one officially designated but currently unincorporated community, for which the CDP is named, plus surrounding inhabited countryside of varying dimensions and, occasionally, other, smaller unincorporated communities as well. CDPs include small rural communities, colonias located along the U.S. border with Mexico, and unincorporated resort and retirement communities and their environs.
U.S. Route 219 passes north/south immediately west of the Game Lands, Pennsylvania Route 120 is east/west oriented just south of SGL 25, Pennsylvania Route 255 passes through north/south through the Game Lands and Pennsylvania Route 948 passes north/south to the west connecting with Routes 219 and 120. [2]
U.S. Route 219 is a spur of U.S. Route 19. It runs for 535 miles (861 km) from West Seneca, New York at an interchange with Interstate 90, to Rich Creek, Virginia, intersecting at U.S. Route 460. U.S. 219 is found in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. Much of the Route in West Virginia follows the old Indian warpath known as the Seneca Trail.
Pennsylvania Route 120 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, running from U.S. Route 219 in Ridgway east to U.S. Route 220 near Lock Haven.
Pennsylvania Route 255 is a 39.7-mile-long (63.9 km) state highway located in Clearfield and Elk Counties in Pennsylvania. The southern terminus is at US 219 near DuBois. The northern terminus is at US 219 in Johnsonburg.
Almost all of SGL 25 is part of the Clarion River watershed, which is part of the Allegheny River watershed. Tributaries include Bendigo Run, Crooked Creek, Dutch Creek, East Branch Clarion River (which includes the East Branch Clarion River Lake), Elk Creek, Maple Run, Middle Fork East Branch Clarion River, Powers Run, Rocky Run, Seventy One, Silver Run, South Fork Straight Creek and Water Tank Run. The southeast portion of the Game Lands is drained by West Creek, part of the Susquehanna River watershed. Tributaries include Bear Run, Kay Fork, Little Bear Run and North Fork West Creek. [2]
The Clarion River is a tributary of the Allegheny River, approximately 110 mi (177 km) long, in west central Pennsylvania in the United States. It drains a rugged area of the Allegheny Plateau in the Ohio River watershed, flowing through narrow serpentine valleys and hardwood forests.
A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water. The drainage basin includes all the surface water from rain runoff, snowmelt, and nearby streams that run downslope towards the shared outlet, as well as the groundwater underneath the earth's surface. Drainage basins connect into other drainage basins at lower elevations in a hierarchical pattern, with smaller sub-drainage basins, which in turn drain into another common outlet.
The Allegheny River is a 325-mile (523 km) long headwater stream of the Ohio River in western Pennsylvania and New York, United States. The Allegheny River runs from its headwaters just below the middle of Pennsylvania's northern border northwesterly into New York then in a zigzag southwesterly across the border and through Western Pennsylvania to join the Monongahela River at the Forks of the Ohio on the "Point" of Point State Park in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Allegheny River is, by volume, the main headstream of both the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Historically, the Allegheny was considered to be the upper Ohio River by both Native Americans and European settlers.
Other Pennsylvania State Game Lands within 30 miles include 14, 28, 30, 34, 44, 54, 61, 62, 77, 94, 293, 301, 311, and 331. Other nearby protected areas include Allegheny National Forest, Elk State Park, Kinzua Bridge State Park and Parker Dam State Park. [2]
The Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 14 are Pennsylvania State Game Lands in Cameron, and Elk Counties in Pennsylvania in the United States providing hunting, bird watching, and other activities.
The Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 28 are Pennsylvania State Game Lands in Elk, Forest and Jefferson Counties in Pennsylvania in the United States providing hunting, bird watching, and other activities.
The Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 30 are Pennsylvania State Game Lands in McKean County in Pennsylvania in the United States providing hunting, bird watching, and other activities.
