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Nanticoke, PA -- U.S. city in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 10955
Housing Units (2000): 5487
Land area (2000): 3.506773 sq. miles (9.082499 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.105235 sq. miles (0.272558 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.612008 sq. miles (9.355057 sq. km)
FIPS code: 52584
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.199514 N, 75.999119 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 18634
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Nanticoke may refer to:

  • Nanticoke people in Delaware, United States
  • Nanticoke language, an Algonquian language
  • Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, a state-recognized tribe in New Jersey
  • Nanticoke (ship), a lake freighter operated by Canada Steamship Lines

Usage examples of "nanticoke".

Or one of the remnant Algonkian tribes to the north, the Nanticokes or the Tuteloes?

It was a grand canoe trip--a weird procession of tawny, black-haired fellows swinging their paddles day after day, with their freight of ancient bones, leaving the sunny fishing grounds of the Nanticoke and the Choptank to seek a refuge from the detested white man in the cold mountains of Pennsylvania.

They no longer had to hide in the northern rivers, because he had arranged lasting peace with the Nanticokes, and the two tribes now traded instead of fighting: dried deer meat to the Nanticokes, bright shells for roanoke to the villagers.

At this doleful news Pentaquod asked what his little tribe could do, and Henry suggested that they move south and make common cause with the Nanticokes.