Crawford

Formed March 12, 1800 (33^rd county)

Crawford County (83,937), Meadville (13,036)

The Neo-Classical red brick facility was constructed in 1954.  There were 1804, 1825, and 1867 structures earlier in Meadville, the only county seat.  The facility is on Center Street at Diamond Park Square.  Pennsylvania State Highway 27 is four blocks north of the location.  Edwin S. Hanna and D. Fuller Stewart provided the designs.  A Judicial Center was added in 2017.  The county was formed on March 12, 1800 from Allegheny County as the 33^rd county.  It is named for American Revolutionary War Colonel William Crawford.  Meadville is named for settler David Mead. 

Crawford County government consists of a treasurer, a sheriff, an attorney, a coroner, and a clerk (executive).  It has 3 Commissioners (legislative.)  Three Common Pleas Court Judges and Four Magistrate Court Judges serve Crawford County (judicial.)  The county is on the northwest border with Ohio.  Erie, Pennsylvania is directly north and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is south of the county.  The county center is 3.3 miles Northeast of Meadville.  The county is surrounded clockwise by Erie, Warren, Venango, and Mercer counties and Ohio. 

The area of the county is 1038 square miles.  It is 8 out of 67 in the state.  It ranks 34 out of 67 in population in the state.  It has a density of 80.9 persons per square mile making it 44 out of 67 in the state.  Crawford County has 32.8% of its population in its incorporated areas.  Interstate Highway 79 travels north to south through the county from Erie County to Mercer County.  United States Highway 6 comes in from the north, Erie County, and goes west into Ohio.  United States Highway 19 parallels Interstate Highway 79 from Erie to Mercer counties.  United States Highway 322 enters from Mercer County, southeast, and exits to Ohio, west.  The county is a rectangle with the southeast corner eaten away.  Meadville is located south and west of center in the county.  Meadville is the county seat and the largest city.  It is 15.5% of the county population.  This county is in the Meadville Micropolitan Statistical Area.

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