Pike County, Pennsylvania

Founding: 1814
Parent county: Wayne

Namesake: Zebulon Pike, American explorer
Seat: Milford (1814–)

Land area: 545 square miles

Population (2020): 58,535

Population (historic): 2,894 (1820); 5,881 (1850); 8,436 (1870); 8,766 (1900); 7,483 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1820–1830; 1840–1880; 1920s; 1940–2020

Subdivisions: Two boroughs; 12 CDPs; 11 townships

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 2,843 (7.3%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 90.3%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 12.5%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 2.6%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 2.1%
Average farmhouse value (1930): $2,679
Average outbuilding value (1930): $1,851
Average farmhouse size (1940): 7.5 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 690
Average farm size (1920): 29.2 acres
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Milford

Namesake: Milford Haven, Wales

Founding: 1796 (platting); 1814 (post office); 1874 (incorporation)

Population (2020): 1,103

Population (historic): 746 (1870); 884 (1900); 886 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1870–1880; 1890s; 1920–1960; 1990s; 2010s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 326 (52.6%)
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Outstanding Buildings

1. Blooming Grove Hotel / Moses Westbrook House (c. 1855). 418 Blooming Grove Road. Blooming Grove. Greek Revival.
2. Daniel Dingman House (1804). 2130 Dingman's Pike. Delaware.
3. Dingman's Ferry Reformed Church (c. 1850). 898 Federal Road. Delaware. Greek Revival.
4. Marie Zimmermann Estate (c. 1910). Zimmermann Farm Road. Delaware. Dutch Colonial Revival.
5. Dingman's Ferry School (1932). 115 Schoolhouse Road. Delaware. Classical Revival.
6. House (c. 1870). 168 State Route 191. Greene. Italianate.
7. Garret Brodhead Farm. 2051 Federal Road. Lehman.
8. William Nyce Farm. 2217 Federal Road. Lehman. Federal. Razed.
9. Jacobus Van Gorden House. 2217 Federal Road. Lehman.
10. Grey Towers / Gifford Pinchot House (1886). 151 Grey Towers Lane. Milford. Norman Revival.
11. Charles Pierce House (c. 1890). 294 Old Milford Road. Westfall. Shingle.

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