Wyoming

Formed April 4, 1842 (56^th county)

Wyoming County (26,073), Tunkhannock (1,765)                

The concrete and white brick Italianate Tuscan Villa courthouse was built in 1870 and enlarged in 1938 and 1992.  The courthouse is on 2^nd Street between Pine and McCord streets.  United States Highway 6 Business is one block to the south of the facility.  D. H. Nott provided the building designs.  The county was formed on April 4, 1842 from Luzerne County as the 56^th county with Tunkhannock as the only county seat.  The county is a Native American word meaning “large meadow.”  Tunkhannock is a Native American word meaning “meeting of the waters.” 

Wyoming County government consists of a sheriff and 3 Commissioners.  Two Common Pleas Court Judges and Three Magistrate Court Judges serve Wyoming and Sullivan counties.  Wyoming County is in the northeast part of the state.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is southwest and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is southeast of the county.  The Susquehanna River flows through the county.  The county center is in Tunkhannock .9 miles West of the city center.  The county is surrounded clockwise by Susquehanna, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Sullivan, and Bradford counties. 

The area of the county is 405 square miles.  It is 55 out of 67 in the state.  It ranks 60 out of 67 in population in the state.  It has a density of 64.4 persons per square mile making it 50 out of 67 in the state.  Wyoming County has 16.5% of its population in its incorporated areas.  United States Highway 6 crosses the county from east to west from Lackawanna County to Bradford County.  United States Highway 11 comes from the north, Susquehanna County, and joins United States Highway 6 into Lackawanna County, east.  The county resembles a fat plow.  Tunkhannock is located in the eastern third of the county.  Tunkhannock is the county seat and the largest city.  It is 6.8% of the county population.  The county seat is pronounced TUNK-HAN-NOK.  This county is in the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre Metropolitan Statistical Area.