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Government Edition · Pennsylvania
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Canonical geography
Pennsylvania counties and county equivalents
Each geography resolves backward to US-PA and forward into the same national place, records and program graph.
View all 67 canonical county relationships
Adams CountyUS-PA-001 · FIPS 42001Allegheny CountyUS-PA-003 · FIPS 42003Armstrong CountyUS-PA-005 · FIPS 42005Beaver CountyUS-PA-007 · FIPS 42007Bedford CountyUS-PA-009 · FIPS 42009Berks CountyUS-PA-011 · FIPS 42011Blair CountyUS-PA-013 · FIPS 42013Bradford CountyUS-PA-015 · FIPS 42015Bucks CountyUS-PA-017 · FIPS 42017Butler CountyUS-PA-019 · FIPS 42019Cambria CountyUS-PA-021 · FIPS 42021Cameron CountyUS-PA-023 · FIPS 42023Carbon CountyUS-PA-025 · FIPS 42025Centre CountyUS-PA-027 · FIPS 42027Chester CountyUS-PA-029 · FIPS 42029Clarion CountyUS-PA-031 · FIPS 42031Clearfield CountyUS-PA-033 · FIPS 42033Clinton CountyUS-PA-035 · FIPS 42035Columbia CountyUS-PA-037 · FIPS 42037Crawford CountyUS-PA-039 · FIPS 42039Cumberland CountyUS-PA-041 · FIPS 42041Dauphin CountyUS-PA-043 · FIPS 42043Delaware CountyUS-PA-045 · FIPS 42045Elk CountyUS-PA-047 · FIPS 42047Erie CountyUS-PA-049 · FIPS 42049Fayette CountyUS-PA-051 · FIPS 42051Forest CountyUS-PA-053 · FIPS 42053Franklin CountyUS-PA-055 · FIPS 42055Fulton CountyUS-PA-057 · FIPS 42057Greene CountyUS-PA-059 · FIPS 42059Huntingdon CountyUS-PA-061 · FIPS 42061Indiana CountyUS-PA-063 · FIPS 42063Jefferson CountyUS-PA-065 · FIPS 42065Juniata CountyUS-PA-067 · FIPS 42067Lackawanna CountyUS-PA-069 · FIPS 42069Lancaster CountyUS-PA-071 · FIPS 42071Lawrence CountyUS-PA-073 · FIPS 42073Lebanon CountyUS-PA-075 · FIPS 42075Lehigh CountyUS-PA-077 · FIPS 42077Luzerne CountyUS-PA-079 · FIPS 42079Lycoming CountyUS-PA-081 · FIPS 42081McKean CountyUS-PA-083 · FIPS 42083Mercer CountyUS-PA-085 · FIPS 42085Mifflin CountyUS-PA-087 · FIPS 42087Monroe CountyUS-PA-089 · FIPS 42089Montgomery CountyUS-PA-091 · FIPS 42091Montour CountyUS-PA-093 · FIPS 42093Northampton CountyUS-PA-095 · FIPS 42095Northumberland CountyUS-PA-097 · FIPS 42097Perry CountyUS-PA-099 · FIPS 42099Philadelphia CountyUS-PA-101 · FIPS 42101Pike CountyUS-PA-103 · FIPS 42103Potter CountyUS-PA-105 · FIPS 42105Schuylkill CountyUS-PA-107 · FIPS 42107Snyder CountyUS-PA-109 · FIPS 42109Somerset CountyUS-PA-111 · FIPS 42111Sullivan CountyUS-PA-113 · FIPS 42113Susquehanna CountyUS-PA-115 · FIPS 42115Tioga CountyUS-PA-117 · FIPS 42117Union CountyUS-PA-119 · FIPS 42119Venango CountyUS-PA-121 · FIPS 42121Warren CountyUS-PA-123 · FIPS 42123Washington CountyUS-PA-125 · FIPS 42125Wayne CountyUS-PA-127 · FIPS 42127Westmoreland CountyUS-PA-129 · FIPS 42129Wyoming CountyUS-PA-131 · FIPS 42131York CountyUS-PA-133 · FIPS 42133
Explore Pennsylvania
One state. Four ways in.
01 · PEOPLE
Officials & Candidates
Office, district, committees, public activity, election information and source-linked profiles.
02 · GOVERNMENT
Bills & Meetings
Legislation, committees, agendas, public actions and changes to the official record.
03 · COMMUNITIES
Economy & Development
Jobs, workforce, housing, infrastructure and public investment in context.
04 · LEARN
Government, Explained
Plain-English education on process, public records and economic-development tools.
DayMark Record
History should never disappear.
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Public Activity Record
Source-linked chronology with earlier and later official records retained separately.
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HistorySource-first
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Accountability workflows
Ask the official — or request the records.
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PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST
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Use the national guided gateway with Pennsylvania already selected.
Open guided request →COMPLETE THE RECORD
Close an evidence gap.
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Economic-development education
Government decisions shape communities.
Public economic information can sit beside the government decisions and records that help explain it.
Jobs & Workforce
Employment, wages, labor force and workforce-development context.
Housing
Supply, affordability, development and public policy affecting communities.
Infrastructure
Transportation, utilities and public capital projects supporting communities.
Public Investment
Publicly documented incentives, grants, agreements and project outcomes.
Nonpartisan voter education
Election information should be easier to understand.
Comparable candidate pages, office explainers, public forums and official election resources — without endorsements.
VOTER GUIDE
Understand the office.
Explain what an office does before presenting comparable candidate information.
CANDIDATES
Comparable profiles.
Use the same structure and sourcing rules across candidates in the same contest.
PUBLIC FORUMS
Questions in public.
Archive questions, responses and source material with context attached.
OFFICIAL RESOURCES
Verify the basics.
Keep the official election authority directly accessible.
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