Starlight, Pennsylvania

Starlight, Pennsylvania
Village
Village of Starlight
The former Starlight Station in Starlight, which is now the Buckingham Township Municipal Building. It is also a U.S. National Historic Place.
Starlight, Pennsylvania Starlight's Location within Pennsylvania.
Coordinates: 41°54′18″N 75°19′52″W
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
U.S. Congressional District	PA-10
School District	Wayne Highlands Region I
County	Wayne
Magisterial District	22-3-04[1]
Township	Buckingham
Named for	Starlight Lake
Elevation	1,352 ft (412 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (Eastern Daylight (EDT))
ZIP code	18461
Area code	570
GNIS feature ID	1188417[2]
FIPS code	42-127-09824[3]-73744[2]
Major Roads
Waterways	Shehawken Creek, Starlight Lake

Starlight is a village that is located in Buckingham Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, United States. Crosstown Highway, which is entirely concurrent with Pennsylvania Route 370 (PA-370), is generally thought to be the southern edge of the village.

History

This village was once a depot of the Scranton Division of the New York, Ontario & Western (O&W) Railway, but is largely known today for being home to the Inn at Starlight Lake & Restaurant,[4] which has been open since 1909.[5]

Municipal status and boundaries

An image of Starlight's PennDOT sign, looking northeast along Crosstown Highway. The sign for Buckingham Township is also visible.

A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) sign on Crosstown Highway identifies the community as the "Village of Starlight."

In Pennsylvania, a village is an unincorporated community within a township, but PennDOT identifies most villages with roadside signs, a fact that might reasonably lead those unfamiliar with this practice to believe that these communities are incorporated municipalities administered separately from the townships in which they are located. Since Pennsylvania's villages, including Starlight, are, in fact, not municipalities in their own right, they do not have official boundaries, and the United States Census Bureau does not collect statistics for them (unless, unlike Starlight, they are census-designated places). In spite of this, because of strong local consensus, as well as the fact that many features are named for the villages they are associated with, it is almost always impossible to consistently determine whether a particular feature is in one village or another.

Natural features

Shehawken Creek[6] (once called Chehocton Creek[7]) and Starlight Lake[8] are located in Starlight. The latter is the source of the former.

References

1. "District Magistrate". Wayne County, PA. Wayne County Courthouse. 2014. Archived from the original on November 27, 2014. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
2. "Starlight". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. August 2, 1979. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
3. U.S. Census Bureau. Census 2000. "Census Demographic Profiles, Buckingham Township" (PDF). CenStats Databases. Retrieved January 31, 2009.^[dead link‍]
4. "The Inn at Starlight Lake & Restaurant". The Inn at Starlight Lake & Restaurant. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
5. "History of the Inn". The Inn at Starlight Lake & Restaurant. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
6. "Shehawken Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. August 2, 1897. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
7. White, Israel Charles; Dolph, John M. (1881). The Geology of Susquehanna County and Wayne County (Report). Vol. 23. Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. p. 162. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
8. "Starlight Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. August 2, 1979. Retrieved November 22, 2014.