Widnoon, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
Widnoon is located in Pennsylvania
Widnoon
Widnoon
Coordinates: 40°57′40″N 79°28′02″W / 40.96111°N 79.46722°W / 40.96111; -79.46722
CountryUnited States
StatePennsylvania
CountyArmstrong
TownshipMadison
Elevation
1,434 ft (437 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
16261
Area code724
GNIS feature ID1191376[1]

Widnoon is an unincorporated community located near the center of Madison Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States.[1] The community is 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Templeton. Widnoon had its own post office from March 22, 1880, to February 3, 2005.[2] It still has its own ZIP code, 16261.[3][4]

History

Duncanville, later called Widnoon, appears in the 1876 Atlas of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.[5][6] Duncanville was named after James Duncan who established a store there in 1854.[7]

The United Brethren and the Presbyterians had organized churches here and houses of worship in 1878 which were no longer in use by 1913.[6]

Widnoon lies on tract No. 314, covered by warrant 2868, called "Elliott Grove," which adjoined the original line between Toby and Red Bank townships on the east. This tract was originally owned by Willink & Co., Wilhelm Willink being one of several Dutch investors in the Holland Land Company.

References

  1. ^ a b "Widnoon". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved November 6, 2018.
  3. ^ United States Postal Service. "USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code". Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  4. ^ "Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code". United States Postal Service. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  5. ^ "Atlas of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, page 49". Pomeroy, Whitman & Co. 1876. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Armstrong County, PA: Her People, Past and Present, Chapter 35, page 260". Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. 1914. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
  7. ^ Robert Walter Smith (1883). "History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Chapter 12, page 282". Chicago: Waterman, Watkins. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
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