Starlight, Pennsylvania

Village in Pennsylvania, United States

41°54′18″N 75°19′52″W / 41.90500°N 75.33111°W / 41.90500; -75.33111CountryUnited StatesStatePennsylvaniaU.S. Congressional District PA-10 School District Wayne Highlands
Region I CountyWayneMagisterial District22-3-04^[1]Township BuckinghamNamed forStarlight LakeElevation

1,352 ft (412 m)Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (Eastern Daylight (EDT))ZIP code

18461

Area code570 GNIS feature ID1188417^[2]FIPS code42-127-09824^[3]-73744^[2]Major Roads

WaterwaysShehawken Creek, Starlight Lake

Starlight is a village that is located in Buckingham Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, United States. Crosstown Highway, which is entirely concurrent with Pennsylvania Route 370 (PA-370), is generally thought to be the southern edge of the village.

History

This village was once a depot of the Scranton Division of the New York, Ontario & Western (O&W) Railway, but is largely known today for being home to the Inn at Starlight Lake & Restaurant,^[4] which has been open since 1909.^[5]

Municipal status and boundaries

A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) sign on Crosstown Highway identifies the community as the "Village of Starlight."

In Pennsylvania, a village is an unincorporated community within a township, but PennDOT identifies most villages with roadside signs, a fact that might reasonably lead those unfamiliar with this practice to believe that these communities are incorporated municipalities administered separately from the townships in which they are located. Since Pennsylvania's villages, including Starlight, are, in fact, not municipalities in their own right, they do not have official boundaries, and the United States Census Bureau does not collect statistics for them (unless, unlike Starlight, they are census-designated places). In spite of this, because of strong local consensus, as well as the fact that many features are named for the villages they are associated with, it is almost always impossible to consistently determine whether a particular feature is in one village or another.

Natural features

Shehawken Creek^[6] (once called Chehocton Creek^[7]) and Starlight Lake^[8] are located in Starlight. The latter is the source of the former.

References

^ "District Magistrate". Wayne County, PA. Wayne County Courthouse. 2014. Archived from the original on November 27, 2014. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Starlight". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. August 2, 1979. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
^ U.S. Census Bureau. Census 2000. "Census Demographic Profiles, Buckingham Township" (PDF). CenStats Databases. Retrieved January 31, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)^{[dead link]}
^ "The Inn at Starlight Lake & Restaurant". The Inn at Starlight Lake & Restaurant. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
^ "History of the Inn". The Inn at Starlight Lake & Restaurant. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
^ "Shehawken Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. August 2, 1897. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
^ White, Israel Charles; Dolph, John M. (1881). The Geology of Susquehanna County and Wayne County (Report). Vol. 23. Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. p. 162. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
^ "Starlight Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. August 2, 1979. Retrieved November 22, 2014.