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Housing Units (2000): 6528
Land area (2000): 8.740937 sq. miles (22.638921 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.072138 sq. miles (0.186836 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.813075 sq. miles (22.825757 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20352
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.417530 N, 75.624432 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 18512
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Dunmore
Wikipedia
Dunmore from the or , meaning "great fort", may refer to:
Dummore is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Casey Dunmore, US musician
- Dave Dunmore (born 1934), English footballer
- Fred Dunmore (1911–1991), English footballer
- Helen Dunmore, British author
- John Dunmore, New Zealand historian and playwright
- Laurence Dunmore, British graphic designer and film director
- Russell G. Dunmore (1884–1935), New York politician
- Tom Dunmore, British journalist
Usage examples of "dunmore".
Colonel Zane, who had been a disbursing officer in the army of Lord Dunmore, where he had attained the rank of Colonel, visited Fort Pitt during the summer in the hope of increasing the number of soldiers in his garrison.
At first they called it Fort Fincastle, in honor of Lord Dunmore, who, at the time of its erection, was Governor of the Colony of Virginia.
While Lord Dunmore had been waging war against his former colony (and threatening Washingtons Mount Vernon estate), New Yorks ex-governor William Tryon, then living on a warship in New York harbor, was laying plans to blow up the city arsenals and murder Washington and his staff at his headquarters at Richmond Hill.