Editing Starrucca, Pennsylvania

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{{Infobox settlement
| name               = Starrucca, Pennsylvania
| official_name      = Borough of Starrucca
| settlement_type    = [[Local government in Pennsylvania#Borough|Borough]]
| nickname           = Wayne Borough,<ref name="Ham">{{cite book|last=Ham|first=Thomas J.|date=1995|orig-year=1905 - 1907|editor-last=Fluhr|editor-first=George J.|title=The Nomenclature of Wayne: A History of Wayne County, PA|type=Compiled from articles originally published in the ''Honesdale Citizen''.|location=Honesdale, PA|publisher=Wayne County Historical Society|publication-date=2003|page=4}}</ref> Starucca<ref name="Ham"/> ''(both historical)''

<!--images-->| image_skyline      = StarruccaPostOffice2007.JPG
| image_alt          = Image of a mildly dilapidated, yellow and red wooden building of a style common in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. A hand-painted sign on the front reads, "POST OFFICE STARRUCCA, PA. 18462."
| image_caption      = The Starrucca [[United States Postal Service|Post Office]].

<!--maps-->| image_map          = Wayne County Pennsylvania incorporated and unincorporated areas Starrucca highlighted.svg
| mapsize            = 260px
| map_caption        = Location in [[Wayne County, Pennsylvania|Wayne County]] and the U.S. state of [[Pennsylvania]].
| image_map1         = 
| map_caption1       = 
| pushpin_map        = Pennsylvania#USA
| pushpin_label      = Starrucca
| pushpin_map_alt    = 
| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Starrucca in Pennsylvania

<!--location-->| coordinates        = {{coord|41|53|58|N|75|27|40|W|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type   = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name   = United States
| subdivision_type1  = [[U.S. state|State]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[Pennsylvania]]
| subdivision_type2  = [[Pennsylvania's congressional districts|US Congressional District]]
| subdivision_name2  = [[Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district|PA-8]]
| subdivision_type3  = [[Pennsylvania State Senate|State Senatorial District]]
| subdivision_name3  = [[Pennsylvania Senate, District 20|20]]
| subdivision_type4  = [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives|State House of Representatives District]]
| subdivision_name4  = [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 111|111]]
| subdivision_type5  = [[List of counties in Pennsylvania|County]]
| subdivision_name5  = [[Wayne County, Pennsylvania|Wayne]]
| subdivision_type6  = [[List of school districts in Pennsylvania|School District]]
| subdivision_name6  = [[Susquehanna Community School District|Susquehanna Community]]<br>[[Susquehanna Community School District#Regions and constituent municipalities|Region III]]

<!--government-->| established_title  = Settled
| established_date   = {{circa|1800|lk=yes}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Mathews|first=Alfred|date=1886|title=History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe Counties, Pennsylvania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MT1EAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA718|location=Philadelphia|publisher=R.T. Peck & Company|page=718|accessdate=19 June 2015}}</ref>
| established_title1 = [[Municipal Corporation|Incorporated]] as "Wayne Borough"
| established_date1  = 1853<ref name="Ham"/>
| established_title2 = Renamed "Starucca Borough"
| established_date2  = April 10, 1873<ref name="Ham"/>
| named_for          = [[Starrucca Creek]]<ref name="Ham"/>
| government_type    = [[Mayor–council government#Weak-mayor form|Weak mayor-council]]
| leader_title       = [[Mayoralty in the United States#Mayor-Council|Mayor]]
| leader_name        = Jason Heeman <ref name="Municipal Index">{{cite web|url=http://planning.co.wayne.pa.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Municipal-Index1.pdf|title=Municipal Index|author=<!--staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=2011|website=Wayne County Planning Commission/GIS|publisher=WordPress|accessdate=19 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141203074128/http://planning.co.wayne.pa.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Municipal-Index1.pdf|archive-date=3 December 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
| leader_title1      = [[City council#United States and Canada|Borough Council]]<ref name="Municipal Index"/>
| leader_name1       = {{collapsible list
|title=Council Members
|frame_style=border:none;padding:0;
|list_style=text-align:left;display:none;
|1=Raymond J Woods II ''(Vice-President)''
|2=Jack Downton ''(President)''
|3=Lou Gerkse
|4=Ted Batzel 
|5=Jared Allen
|6=Kelly Balmer
|7= (open)
}}
| leader_title2      = [[United States House of Representatives|US Representative]]
| leader_name2       = [[Matt Cartwright]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]])
| leader_title3      = State Senator
| leader_name3       = [[Lisa Baker (Pennsylvania politician)|Lisa Baker]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]])
| leader_title4      = State Representative
| leader_name4       = [[Sandra Major]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]])

<!--area-->| area_total_km2     = 23.27
| area_total_sq_mi   = 8.98
| area_land_km2      = 23.09
| area_land_sq_mi    = 8.91
<!--staff writer(s); no by-line.-->| area_water_km2     = 0.18
| area_water_sq_mi   = 0.07

<!--population-->
| population_total   = 173
| population_density_km2 = 7.15
| population_density_sq_mi = 18.51

<!--general information-->| timezone           = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern (EST)]]
| utc_offset         = -5
| timezone_DST       = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern Daylight (EDT)]]
| utc_offset_DST     = -4
| elevation_m        = 399
| elevation_ft       = 1309<ref name="Starrucca">{{cite gnis|id=1188422|name=Starrucca|entrydate=2 August 1979|accessdate=19 June 2015}}</ref>

<!--area/postal code & others-->| postal_code_type   = [[ZIP code]]
| postal_code        = ''[[De jure]]''<br>18462<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupResultsAction!input.action?resultMode=2&postalCode=18462|title=Look up a ZIP Code|author=<!--staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=2015|website=USPS.COM|publisher=USPS|accessdate=19 June 2015}}</ref><br><br>''[[De facto]]''<br>18462<br>18465<ref name="Google">{{cite web|url=https://maps.google.com/gallery/details?id=z4f-ZuCLmiKg.kzNnVXjWtWwA|title=US Postal Code Boundaries|author=<!--staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=3 February 2014|website=Google|publisher=Google Maps|accessdate=21 June 2015}}</ref> ([[Thompson, Pennsylvania|Thompson]])<br>18847<ref name="Google"/> ([[Susquehanna Depot, Pennsylvania|Susquehanna]])
| area_code          = [[Area codes 570 and 272|570]]
| blank_name         = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature IDs
| blank_info         = 1188422<ref name="Starrucca"/><ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite gnis|id=1215688|name=Borough of Starrucca|entrydate=30 August 1990|accessdate=19 June 2015|links=off}}</ref> (Place)<br>1215688<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite gnis|id=1215688|name=Borough of Starrucca|entrydate=30 August 1990|accessdate=19 June 2015|links=off}}</ref> (Borough)
| blank1_name        = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank1_info        = 42-73784<ref>{{cite American Factfinder|PA|borough|4273784|name=Starrucca Borough|source=age}}</ref>
| blank2_name        = [[Waterway]]s
| blank2_info        = Mach Pond,<ref>{{cite gnis|id=1180153|name=Mach Pond|entrydate=2 August 1979|accessdate=19 June 2015}}</ref> [[Shadigee Creek]], [[Starrucca Creek]]
| population_as_of   = 2020
| population_footnotes = <ref name="Census20"/>
| population_est     = 165
| unit_pref          = Imperial
| area_footnotes     = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2019">{{cite web|title=2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2019_Gazetteer/2019_gaz_place_42.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=July 28, 2020}}</ref>
}}

'''Starrucca''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|t|r|ʌ|k|ə}} {{respell|STRUK|ə}}) is a [[Local government in Pennsylvania#Borough|borough]] that is located in [[Wayne County, Pennsylvania|Wayne County]], [[Pennsylvania]], United States. The borough's population was 169 at the time of the 2020 [[United States Census]].<ref name="Census">{{cite web |date=2010 |title=2010 Census Interactive Population Search |url=https://www.census.gov/2010census/popmap/ipmtext.php?fl=4273784 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620001852/http://www.census.gov/2010census/popmap/ipmtext.php?fl=4273784 |archive-date=2015-06-20 |accessdate=19 June 2015 |website=Census.gov |publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce}}</ref><ref name="Census20">{{Cite web |title=PennDOT Liquid Fuel Map |url=https://gis.penndot.gov/BPR_pdf_files/Maps/Type5/63405.pdf |access-date=26 March 2024 |website=PennDOT}}</ref>

==History==
Starrucca was named after the founder's [[horse]], which he rode as he surveyed the land. Other says Starrucca means either where waters meet in a Native American language, or that it is from a more ancient term meaning "where dreams go to die." (Star (rucca, dying, as in a dying star).

The historic [[Stone Arch Bridge (Starrucca Creek)|Stone Arch Bridge]] over [[Starrucca Creek]] was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on January 1, 1979, and was delisted on May 8, 1986,<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> after being demolished.

In 2003, Dennis and Donna Corrigan were honored by the Wayne County Historical Society with its Historic Preservation Award for their restoration of the Major Elisha Strong House in Starrucca.<ref>"[https://www.waynehistorypa.com/places/hpawards Historic Preservation Awards]." Honesdale, Pennsylvania: Wayne County Historical Society, retrieved online June 2, 2023.</ref> Born in 1818, Strong was a resident of New York and a former major in a militia unit who was awarded a 410-acre portion of the Pennsylvania estate of John Sherwood in 1852, including a plank house with board-and-batten siding and hemlock plank floors and doors. Built circa 1800, the house was later expanded with a [[Greek Revival architecture|Greek Revival]]-style addition. Strong subsequently formed a partnership with Guernsey Osborne and began operating the Starrucca Tannery; he then moved his family to Starrucca in 1862 and added cattle breeding and lumber production to his business portfolio. By 1872, he owned most of the town's land and buildings. Following his death in 1895, his widow, Estelle Strong, was awarded ownership of what would later become known as the Major Elisha Strong House; she then retained that ownership until 1921.<ref>"[https://www.waynehistorypa.com/places/id/151 Major Elisha P. Strong House]." Honesdale, Pennsylvania: Wayne County Historical Society, retrieved online June 2, 2023.</ref>

The Barnes House, which is located on Depot Hill on Little Ireland Road in Starrucca, is a large clapboard residence that was built by Homer Spencer in 1888. Shortly thereafter, Spencer built a three-story grist mill; his historic property was then purchased eleven years later by Miles Kenyon and Arthur Laribee who took over the mill's operations before selling the mill and house to Stephen Decatur Barnes and his wife, Hattie (Armstrong) Barnes in 1910. Barnes subsequently added an extension to the mill's south side, upgraded the nearby dam from a wooden to concrete structure, and then continued to operate the water-powered grist mill until 1940, when a new power source was installed. The mill, which finally ceased operations in 1986, was purchased by William and Valerie Tilton in 1994.<ref>"[https://www.waynehistorypa.com/places/id/97 The Barnes House]." Honesdale, Pennsylvania: Wayne County Historical Society, retrieved online June 2, 2023.</ref>

==Geography==
Starrucca is located at {{Coord|41|53|58|N|75|27|40|W|type:city|display=inline}} (41.574214, -75.255966).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], Starrucca has a total area of 8.985 sq mi (23.27&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), of which 8.915 sq mi (23.09&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) is land and 0.070 sq mi (0.18&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), or 0.77%, is water.<ref name="Gazetteer">{{cite report|author=<!--staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=2014|title=2014 Census National Places Gazetteer File for Pennsylvania|url=http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2014_Gazetteer/2014_gaz_place_42.txt|publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce|accessdate=29 June 2015}}</ref>

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|align=right
|1860= 400
|1870= 476
|1880= 535
|1890= 431
|1900= 404
|1910= 381
|1920= 397
|1930= 351
|1940= 340
|1950= 326
|1960= 330
|1970= 292
|1980= 216
|1990= 199
|2000= 216
|2010= 173
|2020= 169
|align-fn=left
|footnote=Sources:<ref name="Full Census"/><ref>{{cite report|author=<!--staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=2010|title=Census of Population and Housing|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce|accessdate=20 June 2015}}</ref>
}}
As of the [[2010 United States Census|Census of 2010]], there were 173 people, 75 households, and 52 families in Starrucca. The borough's [[population density]] was 19.4 people per square mile (7.49/km<sup>2</sup>), and there were 126 housing units at an average density of 14.0/sq mi (5.41/km<sup>2</sup>).

The racial makeup of the populace was 96.0% [[White American#Current U.S. Census Definition|White]], 1.7% [[African American#Identity|African American]], 0.0% [[Native Americans in the United States#Increased self-identification|Native American]], 0.6% [[Asian American|Asian]], 0.0% [[Pacific Islands American#Population|Pacific Islander]], 0.6% of [[Race and ethnicity in the United States Census|other races]], and 1.2% of two or more races. [[Hispanic and Latino Americans#Terminology|Hispanics and Latinos]] of all races made up 4.0% of the population.<ref name="Gazetteer"/><ref name="Full Census">{{cite report|author=<!--staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=2010|title=Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data for Starrucca, Pennsylvania|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/DPDP1/1600000US4273784|publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce|accessdate=19 June 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213052353/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/DPDP1/1600000US4273784|archivedate=13 February 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref>

According to the informal consensus, 69.3% of Starrucca's households were families and 96.0% were headed by a [[Marriage|married couple]]. In addition, 20.0% of documented households included children who were under the age of eighteen, 6.7% of households were headed by a female householder with no husband present, 6.7% were headed by a male householder with no wife present, 30.7% consisted of non-families, 28.0% were made up of individuals, and 12.0% were one-person households with residents who were sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31 and the average family size was 2.69.<ref name="Full Census"/>

Starrucca's documented age distribution included 20.2% of residents who were under the age of eighteen, 2.3% between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four, 20.2% between the ages of twenty-five and forty-four, 38.7% between the ages of forty-five and sixty-four, and 18.5% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The population's median age was 49.3 years.

For every one hundred females, there were 130 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen older, there were 130 males within the same age range.<ref name="Full Census"/>

According to [[American Community Survey|American Community Survey (ACS)]] estimates, the median income for a household in Starrucca in 2013 was $47,500, and the median income for a family was $67,500. Males had a median income of $35,625, while females had a median income of $28,125.

The [[per capita income]] for the borough was $24,535. 2.6% of families and 24.3% of people were documented as living below the Census Bureau's [[Poverty thresholds (United States Census Bureau)|poverty thresholds]] (different from the federally defined [[Poverty in the United States#Two official measures of poverty|poverty guidelines]]), including 0.0% of those under age 18 and 8.3% of those aged sixty-five or older.<ref>{{cite report|author=<!--staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=2013|title=SELECTED ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS 2009-2013 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for Starrucca, Pennsylvania|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/13_5YR/DP03/1600000US4273784|publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce|accessdate=19 June 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213042900/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/13_5YR/DP03/1600000US4273784|archivedate=13 February 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite report|author=<!--staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=2013|title=OCCUPATION BY SEX AND MEDIAN EARNINGS IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS (IN 2013 INFLATION-ADJUSTED DOLLARS) FOR THE CIVILIAN EMPLOYED POPULATION 16 YEARS AND OVER 2009-2013 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for Starrucca, Pennsylvania|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/13_5YR/S2401/1600000US4273784|publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce|accessdate=19 June 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213092741/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/13_5YR/S2401/1600000US4273784|archivedate=13 February 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref>

According to self-reported [[Race and ethnicity in the United States#Ancestry|ancestry]] figures recorded by the ACS, the five largest ancestral groups in Starrucca in 2013 were [[German American|Germans]] (28.8%), [[English American|English]] (19.9%), [[Polish American|Poles]] (10.5%), [[Irish American|Irish]] (9.9%), and [[Dutch American|Dutch]] (6.8%). Those reporting [[American ethnicity|American ancestry]] made up 2.6% of the population.<ref>{{cite report|author=<!--staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=2013|title=SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE UNITED STATES 2009-2013 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for Starrucca, Pennsylvania|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/09_5YR/DP5YR2/0600000US42XXXXX|publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce|accessdate=29 June 2015}}{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Education==
The school district is the [[Susquehanna Community School District]]<!--UNI 22980-->.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42127_wayne/DC20SD_C42127.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Wayne County, PA|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-10-31}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42127_wayne/DC20SD_C42127_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref>

==Gallery==
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File:Starrucca, PA, Reproduction Keystone Marker.JPG|Starrucca historical marker near the borough's eastern border on Shadigee Creek Road
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.starrucca.info Official Borough website]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/starruccagate Starrucca Borough Council Meeting Video Excerpts (November 1, 2006, to November 7, 2007)]

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