ORIGINAL: Cornelius08
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This just in....From the great "metropolis" of 2a! (LOL)(LOL)
According to 2000 census.
Greene County Pa ----- 40,672
Elk County Pa----------- 35,112
Now Rsb, THIS is a metropolitan area, (and not in 2A!)--
Allegheny Co.-----------1,281,666
The only other "pieces" of 2a are just that. Pieces of other counties, andWash for example is the rural part, and not to be confused with the more populated areasto the north.Id hardly call Fayette a "metropolis" either.It falls in the lower middle of the pack of wmus, andonly half of it is in the wmu 2A.
Greene, only has 13 -14 counties with lower human populations and many of those are only by 1 to 2 thousand. Not bad considering we have 67 counties!
Ha ha ha. Think I'll go over to my cousins place over on the other side of 2a towatch a fieldthis evening. Hope I dont get hit by one of those spoiled,rich yuppies riding around on their tractors, or get mugged by one of those rough gangs that just might pull a length of bailer twine on me!....or perhaps hassle me to buy an "eight ball" of ginseng root!(LOL)(LOL)
Here ya go!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greene_County,_Pennsylvania
You also have to consider the size of the counties.
When you crowd more people into a smaller area it still comes out to a more developed and metropolitan area.
As an example I will show the counties along with there population, country size in square miles and then people per square mile of land mass.
County……………..population…………..siz e of county……………….people/sq.mile
Greene……………..40,672.……………….. 576.…………………………70.61
Elk…………………35,112.………………. .829.…………………………42.35
Allegheny………1,281,666.………………..73 0.………………………1755.71
The fact is that Greene County, even though the least populated county in unit 2A, it still has far more people then Elk County, other areas of unit 2G, 2F, 3A or most of the other northern tier units with the exception of the area around Erie.
R.S. Bodenhorn