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CRESSONA

Specialty Definition: Cressona, Pennsylvania

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Cressona is a borough located in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 1,635.

Geography


Cressona is located at 40°37'49" North, 76°11'35" West (40.630214, -76.193003)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 2.6 km² (1.0 mi²). 2.6 km² (1.0 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 1,635 people, 663 households, and 468 families residing in the borough. The population density is 618.9/km² (1,600.3/mi²). There are 711 housing units at an average density of 269.1/km² (695.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the borough is 98.53% White, 0.06% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.92% Asian, 0.12% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.37% from two or more races. 0.18% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 663 households out of which 30.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.9% are married couples living together, 10.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.3% are non-families. 24.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 12.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.47 and the average family size is 2.95. In the borough the population is spread out with 22.8% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 32.8% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 15.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 101.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 96.6 males. The median income for a household in the borough is $39,783, and the median income for a family is $42,292. Males have a median income of $33,807 versus $21,563 for females. The per capita income for the borough is $18,285. 3.7% of the population and 1.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 2.8% are under the age of 18 and 3.6% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cressona, Pennsylvania."

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Cities: CRESSONA


1. Cressona, PA (borough, FIPS 17152)
Location: 40.63047 N, 76.19482 W
Population (1990): 1694 (694 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 17929
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CRESSONA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

alcoa cressona

21

cressona pennsylvania

17

cressona mall

2

cressona

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: CRESSONA

Misspellings

"CRESSONA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chesoni, Cheysson, Crenson, creson, Crestona, Crosson, Crossons, Gresonnay, Kruszyna. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CRESSONA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: coarsens, narcoses.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-o-r-s-s"

-1 letter: ancress, caserns, censors, coarsen, corneas, narcose, reasons, senoras.

-2 letters: acorns, across, arseno, arsons, caners, canoes, cansos, caress, carses, casern, censor, coarse, cornea, corses, cranes, crases, crones, crosse, escars, nacres, narcos, oceans, racons, rances, reason, recons, sarsen, scares, scenas, scones, scores, scorns, season, senora, senors, sensor, seracs, serosa, snares, snores, sonars.

-3 letters: acnes, acorn.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-o-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: ancestors, anchoress, endosarcs, scenarios.

 

+2 letters: absconders, anchorless, antecessor, arccosines, carbonless, coarseness, courtesans, resonances.

 

+3 letters: absorbances, anchoresses, antecessors, congressman, consecrates, cordialness, cotransfers, cradlesongs, crossbanded, gasconaders, marchioness, mascarpones, monstrances, observances, raucousness, reaccession, recessional, scherzandos, scorpaenids, secondaries, uncrossable.

 

+4 letters: absorbancies, absorbencies, absorptances, anthracnoses, asynchronies, canorousness, ceratopsians, chairpersons, chansonniers, coarsenesses, coinsurances, compensators, consecrators, conservatism, conservators, conspiracies, consternates, contrabasses, contrariness, contredanses, conversances, cornstarches, cotoneasters, cotransduces, countryseats, cowardliness, craftsperson, creationisms, creationists, desecrations, discordances, graciousness, icosahedrons, intercostals, ironicalness, miscreations, narcolepsies, overcastings, overissuance, precessional, processional, reaccessions, recessionals, recessionary, romanticises, scabrousness, scaremongers, scolopendras, shortchanges, sternocostal, transections, translocates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CRESSONA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 52 45 53 53 4F 4E 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010011 01001111 01001110 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#82 &#69 &#83 &#83 &#79 &#78 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0052 0045 0053 0053 004F 004E 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3752395353494835

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INDEX

1. Cities
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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