Piscataquis County, Maine
Piscataquis County is a county located in the state of Maine in the United States. Piscataquis County is the part of Maine with the lowest population density. The the county seat ( county seat ) is located in Dover Foxcroft. Piscataquis comes from the language of the Abenaki and means river branch.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 11,337 square kilometers. Of these, 1,065 square kilometers, according to 9.39 per cent, of water.
The County carries within its boundaries the highest mountain in Maine's Mount Katahdin with 1,606 m ( 5,273 feet) above sea level. The Mount Katadin is also at the heart of Baxter State Park, a huge nature reserve with about 80,000 visitors a year, which extends to the border with Penobscot County. Also on the Mount Katadin, more precisely, on the highest of its three peaks, the Appalachian Trail begins.
The glacial landscape dominated not only by hills of the Appalachian Mountains that rise between 700 and 800 meters high on average, embossed, but also by large lakes. The largest lakes are the Pemadumcook Lake, the Moosehead Lake, Chamberlain Lake and Lake Chesuxcook. Transport links are poorly developed. River ships and aircraft are, besides the few highways, the main means of transport. Only in the shallower south of the county, in which the office is situated, also fixed train find people with transportation; in the wooded rest of the counties are almost exclusively industrial railways to be found to carry timber.
Accordingly, most small towns, which are widely distributed in the area. They are often no larger than 200 to 300 inhabitants. Some of these places so joined into larger administrative units together, but without losing their independence. The largest of these administrative units is summarizing the " Three Rivers Community Alliance ", which ( is the latter Milo, the second largest city in the County) eight places with populations 43-2383 residents. The county is bordered clockwise to the counties: Aroostook County, Penobscot County and Somerset County.
Demographic data
1900-1990 2000 2010
According to the census of 2000, there were 17,235 people in the county. There were 7,278 households and 4,854 families. The population density was 2 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 97.84 % White, 0.21 % African American, 0.52 % Native American, 0.27 % Asian, 0.02 % Pacific Islander residents from the and 0.14 % from other races groups; 1.00% were descended from two or more races. 0.52 % of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Of the 7,278 households out of which 28.60% have children under the age of 18 living with them. 54.10 % were married couples living together, 8.40 % had a female householder with no husband. 33.30 % were non-families. 27.80% of all households and 14.00% had someone living alone at the age of 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.83.
Based on the county the population was spread out with 23.40 % under the age of 18, 5.70 % from 18 to 24, 26.00% from 25 to 44 years, 27.50% between 45 and 64 years and 17.40 % were 65 years old or older. The average age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 96.40 males, 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.20 males.
The median income for a household was $ 28,250, and the median income for a family was $ 34,852. Males have a median income of $ 28,149, women $ 20,241. The per capita income was $ 14,374. 14.80% of the population and 11.20% of families are below the poverty line. 17.80% of those under age 18 and 13.90% were 65 years or older.
Cities and towns
- Abbot
- Atkinson
- Beaver Cove
- Bowerbank
- Brownsville
- Dover Foxcroft
- Greenville
- Guilford
- Kingsbury
- Lakeview
- Medford
- Milo
- Monson
- Parkman
- Sangerville
- Sebec
- Shirley
- Wellington
- Willimantic
Territories
- Blanchard
- Southeast Piscataquis
- Northeast Piscataquis
- Northwest Piscataquis