From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Northern Tier (Pennsylvania)
Northern Tier (Pennsylvania)
The region is bordered to the north by the Southern
Tier of New York state. Together, these regions are
known as the Twin Tiers.
The counties and important towns in the Northern
Tier are:
• Bradford
• Athens
• Sayre
• Towanda
• McKean
• Bradford
Counties comprising the Northern Tier Region of Pennsylvania
• Kane
• Smethport
The Northern Tier is a geographic region consisting of
• Potter
five rural counties in north-central Pennsylvania. The
• Coudersport
Northern Tier is home to roughly 180,000 people distrib-
• Sullivan
uted among many small towns and the countryside. The
• Laporte
region’s largest town is Sayre, Pennsylvania, which inci-
• Susquehanna
dentally is the only one located on an Interstate Highway
• Montrose
(Interstate 86 dips just below the Pennsylvania state line
• New Milford
in Sayre). The Endless Mountains are a major geograph-
• Forest City
ic feature. U.S. Route 220, U.S. Route 15 and U.S. Route 6
• Tioga
serve the region.
• Mansfield
The Northern Tier also often includes McKean and
• Wellsboro
Potter Counties, the two counties to the west that border
• Wyoming
New York, though the term Northern Pennsylvania is
• Tunkhannock
more commonly used there. The economies, geography
The region is bounded to the north by the Southern Tier,
and population of these two counties are very similar to
the west by the Northwest Region, and the east by North-
that of other Northern Tier counties.
eastern Pennsylvania.
The region is home to Mansfield University of Penn-
sylvania, located in Mansfield, Pennsylvania.
The Northern Tier region as a whole is notorious for See also
its high unemployment and low per-capita incomes in • Twin Tiers
comparison to the rest of Pennsylvania, though the dis- • Southern Tier
covery of the Marcellus Formation has begun to alleviate • Erie Triangle
these problems. As a result, the region’s top two employ- • New York-Pennsylvania border
ers are government-funded services, specifically health
care and education services. Paper allied products consti-
tute the largest private industry in the area. Agriculture Sources
and light manufacturing are also important employers. • Northern Tier Regional Planning and Development
Commission
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