Editing McIntyre Township, Pennsylvania

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|official_name = McIntyre Township,<br />Lycoming County,<br />Pennsylvania
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|map_caption1 = Map of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
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|subdivision_name1 = [[Pennsylvania]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[List of counties in Pennsylvania|County]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Lycoming County, Pennsylvania|Lycoming]]

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|established_title = Settled
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|established_title1 = Incorporated
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|population_as_of = [[2020 United States Census|2020]]
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|population_total = 460 {{decrease}}
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'''McIntyre Township''' is a [[List of municipalities in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania|township]] in [[Lycoming County, Pennsylvania|Lycoming County]], [[Pennsylvania]], United States. The population was 460 at the [[2020 United States Census|2020 census]].<ref name="USCensusEst2020-2021"/> It is part of the [[Williamsport, Pennsylvania|Williamsport]] [[Metropolitan Statistical Area]].

==History==
McIntyre Township was formed from territory taken from [[Lewis Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania|Lewis Township]] in 1848. It is named for Archibald McIntyre, one of the founders of the Williamsport and Elmira Railroad.<ref name="meg">{{cite book
 | last = Meginness
 | first = John Franklin
 | title = History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania: including its aboriginal history; the colonial and revolutionary periods; early settlement and subsequent growth; organization and civil administration; the legal and medical professions; internal improvement; past and present history of Williamsport; manufacturing and lumber interests; religious, educational, and social development; geology and agriculture; military record; sketches of boroughs, townships, and villages; portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, etc. etc. 
 | year = 1892
 | url = http://www.usgennet.org/usa/pa/county/lycoming/history/lyco-history-01.html
 | access-date = 2007-02-20
 | edition = 1st
 | publisher = Brown, Runk & Co.
 | location = Chicago
 | isbn = 0-7884-0428-8
 | chapter = McIntyre and McNett
 | chapter-url = http://www.usgennet.org/usa/pa/county/lycoming/history/Chapter-43.html
 | quote = (Note: ISBN refers to Heritage Books July 1996 reprint. URL is to a scan of the 1892 version with some [[Optical Character Recognition|OCR]] typos).
}}</ref>

The first pioneers arrived in the McIntyre Township area in 1794 near what is now the village of [[Ralston, Pennsylvania|Ralston]]. John Smithkontz cleared a parcel of land along [[Lycoming Creek]] near the mouth of Pleasant Stream on 1805.<ref name="meg"/>

The New York Iron and Coal Company created the first business venture in what was to become McIntyre Township when they constructed a [[sawmill]] on Lycoming Creek. The New York Iron and Coal Company also built an iron furnace near the mouth of Frozen Run in 1831. They began to make [[iron]] using [[iron ore]] that was mined nearby. The company also established a [[charcoal]]-making operation for the fuel that was needed to keep the furnaces fired. The iron industry had little success in McIntyre. The ore was difficult to clean; it could only be separated from the dirt that was mixed in when it was frozen. And the ore that they did manage to extract produced iron that proved to be very brittle. The reason that several companies attempted to succeed in what proved to be a failing enterprise was the fact that the furnace was within easy distance of the Williamsport and Elmira Railroad, which connected the industrial centers of [[Williamsport, Pennsylvania]], and [[Elmira, New York]].<ref name="meg"/>

The McIntyre Coal company was founded by Jervis Langdon in 1870. He set up a [[coal mining]] operation in the mountains in the northeastern section of McIntyre Township. Coal mining had taken place on a small scale in the earlier years of the township, but Langdon was the first to open a large-scale operation. The coal company constructed a steep (45 degrees) and {{convert|2300|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}} [[inclined plane]] to get the coal from the mine to the waiting railroad cars. The village of McIntyre sprang up around the coal mines. At one time it was home to 300 households, had a church, school, store, sawmill, a boot and shoe shop, and a public hall. The McIntyre Coal Company ceased operation in 1886. The mine was abandoned, and the town was abandoned shortly after the mine.<ref name="meg"/>
[[File:McIntyre Cemetery (3).jpg|thumb|left|This cemetery in [[Loyalsock State Forest]] is all that remains from the village of McIntyre]]

==Geography==
McIntyre Township is in northeastern Lycoming County and is bordered by [[Tioga County, Pennsylvania|Tioga County]] to the north, [[McNett Township, Pennsylvania|McNett Township]] to the north and east, [[Cascade Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania|Cascade Township]] to the southeast, [[Lewis Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania|Lewis]] and [[Cogan House Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania|Cogan House]] townships to the southwest, and [[Jackson Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania|Jackson Township]] to the west. [[Pennsylvania Route 14]] passes through the center of the township, leading southwest {{convert|11|mi}} to [[U.S. Route 15 in Pennsylvania|U.S. Route 15]] at [[Trout Run, Pennsylvania|Trout Run]] and northeast {{convert|14|mi}} to [[Canton, Pennsylvania|Canton]]. [[Williamsport, Pennsylvania|Williamsport]], the Lycoming [[county seat]], is {{convert|26|mi}} to the southwest via PA-14 and US-15.

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], McIntyre Township has a total area of {{convert|122.9|sqkm|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|120.7|sqkm|order=flip}} are land and {{convert|2.2|sqkm|order=flip}}, or 1.80%, are water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2016"/> [[Lycoming Creek]], a south-flowing tributary of the [[West Branch Susquehanna River]], runs through the center of the township.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|2010= 520
|2020= 460
|estyear=2021
|estimate=457
|estref=<ref name="USCensusEst2020-2021"/>
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2016}}</ref>
}}
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=2008-01-31 |title=U.S. Census website }}</ref> of 2000, there were 539 people, 210 households, and 165 families residing in the township. The [[population density]] was 11.4 people per square mile (4.4/km<sup>2</sup>). There were 278 housing units at an average density of 5.9/sq&nbsp;mi (2.3/km<sup>2</sup>). The racial makeup of the township was 97.96% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.74% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 1.11% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], and 0.19% from two or more races.

There were 210 households, out of which 33.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.5% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 10.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.4% were non-families. 19.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 2.84.

In the township the population was spread out, with 23.7% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 29.5% from 25 to 44, 26.3% from 45 to 64, and 14.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 92.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.2 males.

The median income for a household in the township was $36,000, and the median income for a family was $39,659. Males had a median income of $28,824 versus $19,250 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the township was $14,483. About 9.8% of families and 12.1% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 16.4% of those under age 18 and 6.3% of those age 65 or over.

==References==
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{{Lycoming County, Pennsylvania}}

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[[Category:Townships in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania]]
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