WEBSITE HOSTING AVAILABLE for COUNTY MUNICIPALITIES: In January 2008, the Greene County Commissioners began offering Municipal Website Hosting, to encourage our townships and boroughs to compile information about their own municipality that would benefit the residents of that municipality.
We're proud to announce that Perry Township has been the first to take advantage of our county website hosting service.
ABOUT PERRY TOWNSHIP:
Perry Township incorporated in 1841-42. It is the location of the western most point surveyed as part of the Mason & Dixon Line in 1767. In the early 1800's Perry Twp. was part of the Western frontier and immigrant families carved farms out of the forested hills. In the late 1800's oil and gas was discovered here, brining considerable prosperity to many of the Townships residents.
Perry Township is in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District, 46th Senatorial District and 50th Legislative District of Pennsylvania.
Perry Township is located along the West Virginia border of Greene County, PA. The township covers 19,400 acres of land. The Township is home to 1,720 people living in 620 households. The major town located in the township is the village of Mt. Morris in eastern Perry Township. Mt. Morris is situated just North of Morgantown, WV at exit 1 on Interstate 79, a major north-south artery in the eastern USA.
Aside from the village of Mt. Morris, the township consists mostly of rolling hills covered by forests and pasture. The combination its peaceful, rural beauty with its convenient location makes Perry Township an excellent place to live and/or locate a business.
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Children living within Perry Township attend schools within the Central Greene School District, which includes:
Margaret Bell Miller Middle School (724-852-2722) Guidance Office (724-9852-2055)
Perry Elementary (724-324-2687)
Waynesburg Central Elementary (724-627-3081)
Waynesburg Central High (724-852-1050)
Greene County Career & Technology Center (724-627-3106)
Mt. Morris Reading Center: has a wide-range of books that are available to the public; and is located in the Mt. Morris Community Center in back of the Senior Center. Voting Precincts: Perry Township residents vote at the Mt. Morris Senior Citizens' Center, 303 Mt. Morris Road, Mount Morris, PA 15349. Perry Township Coordinance & Geography: Latitude: 39º44'57"N, Longitude: -80º07'32"W. The geography of Perry Township according to the United States Census Bureau, has a total area of 78.5 km² (30.3 mi²), 78.4 km² (30.3 mi²) of it is land and 0.03% is water.
PERRY TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS: (List updated 10/20/2011)
Supervisors:
Chairman: Ronald Howard — 225 Haines Ridge Road, Mt. Orris, PA 15349 (Phone: 724-324-2861)
Vice Chairman: Frank J. Basile
3rd Member: Robert (Buck) N. Kennedy — PO Box 72, 101 Main Street, Mt. Morris, PA 15349 (Phone: 724-324-2861)
Secretary/Treasurer: Lila Ayersman, PO Box 312, 192 Locust Avenur, Mt. Morris, PA 15349 (Phone: 24-324-2861)
Elected Tax Collector: Christine Jarrell, PO Box 66, Mt. Morris, PA (Phone: 724-324-5592)
NOTE: Township taxes are mailed out in March; School taxes are mailed out in July.
Appointed Tax Collector: Central Tax Bureau, Waynesburg, PA 15370 (Phone: 724-627-8980)
EMS Coordinator: Robert N. Kennedy
Constable: John Weaver (Phone: 724-324-9260)
Sewage Officers:
Tim Neil, 179 Gwynn Road, Jefferson, PA 15344 (Phone: 724-880-0914)
K2 Engineering, 160 Pittsburgh Street, Suite 3A, Uniontown, PA 15401 (Phone: 724-439-3440)
Engineer: Widner Engineering, Inc.
Solicitor: Linda Chambers, Esq., 223 E. High Street, Waynesburg, PA (Phone: 724-627-9118)
Open Records Contact: Lila Ayersman, PO Box 312, 192 Locust Avenue, Mt. Morris, PA 15349 (Phone: 24-324-2861)
Scheduled Board Meetings: The township Board of Supervisors meet at 2:00 p.m. the second Tuesday in January, Febraury, April, May, June, August, Spetember, October, and December. At 6:00 p.m. the second Tuesday in March, July, and November. Meetings are held at the Perry Township Building at 799 Big Shannon Run Road, Mt. Morris, PA. Meeting Notes:
The following officials are appointed for their respective positions:
Emergency Management Coordinator: Robert N. Kennedy PO Box 72, Main Street, Mt. Morris, PA 15349 (Phone: 724-324-2566)
Planning Commission Members: (updated 4/5/2011, per Sandy Liebhold)
William Bennett, President
Warren Headley
Jerry Blaker
Jan Ditzian
Glen Evans
(Planning Commission meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 6:00pm in the Township Building).
Recreation Board Members:
Amy Lemley
Patricia Smith
Amy Minor
Lisa Garrison
(Recreation Board meets the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm, in the Township Building)
Mt. Morris Water & Sewer Authority:
Secretary: Charles Nutter
Ron Phillips, Board Member
Robert Delaney, Board Member
Francis Minor, Board Member
Charles Lemley, Jr., Board Member
G. Russell Haines, Board Member
RIGHT TO KNOW OFFICER: Lila Ayersman (available 7:30 to 11:30 A.M. at the Township Office 799 Big Shannon Run Rd, Mt Morris, PA 15349 (Phone 724 324 2861 or fax 724 324 2860)
Perry Township Permits:
Building Permits (Please contact the Township office prior to beginning any construction project.)
Septic Permits (Township septic control officers listed above).
Perry Township Local Service Tax Ordinance: As adopted in Perry Township Ordinance No. 4-2008, a local services tax on the privilege of engaging in an occupation has replaced the old occupational privilege tax. The old occupational privilege tax was collected by the township tax collector but the new locally services tax is collected by Central Tax Bureau (724-627-8980). Collection is required through employers and direct payment by taxpayers including nonresidents. The ordinance provides for administration, enforcement and delinquent collection procedures and prescribing penalties for violation. Deed Transfers: A deed is the document that transfers ownership of real estate. It contains the names of the old and new owners and a legal description of the property, and is signed by the person transferring the property. Property Deeds for Greene County are recorded in our Office of Register and Recorder, located in the Greene County Courthouse, Room 100, 10 East High Street, Waynesburg, PA 15370 (Phone: 724-852-5283). For more information, go to: Recorder of Deeds.
Click here for deed transfers recorded within Perry Township of Greene County, Pennsylvania. Comprehensive Plan with Township Demographics: Almost two years after beginning the process, eight municipalities in southeastern Greene County held a final public meeting Monday, October 27, 2008 on a draft of their multi-municipal comprehensive plan.
Municipalities participating in the effort included Carmichaels and Greensboro Boroughs and Cumberland, Dunkard, Greene, Monongahela, Perry and Wayne Townships. The November 3, 2008 the final draft plan was ready for the 45-day comment period (to end on December 19, 2008);
click here to view the Southeastern Greene County Cooperative Communities Comprehensive Plan.
For more information, read the News Articles
Also see the Greene County Comprehensive Plan prepared by the Department of Economic Development.
PERRY TOWNSHIP NEWS:
Click here for the latest news and happenings in Perry Township.
NOTABLE MENTIONED WITHIN PERRY TOWNSHIP:
Pennsylvania I-79N Welcome Center: located on I-79N, 5 miles north of Pennsylvania/West Virginia border. Serves traveling customers entering PA from WV, providing personalized travel counseling. (Hours: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Restrooms and vending machines open 24-hours a day, year round. Click image for more information
Business: Meadow Ridge Business Park in Perry Township, is a 108-acre park located adjacent to I-79 developed as a Pennsylvania Keystone Opportunity Zone.
Post Office: 100 Main Street, Mount Morris, PA 15349 (Phone: 724-324-2037)
Mt. Morris Cornerstone Health Care Center: Locust Street extension, just off the Mt. Morris Exit of Interstate 79 (convenient to people in southern Greene County as well as northern West Virginia). The 12,000-sq-foot facility (scheduled to open late August 2011) will offer primary care services, basic lab services such as urinalysis and blood work, as well as dental clinic. The new state-of-the-art community health center is operated by Cornerstone Care and Primary Care Cneter of Mt. Morris.
Community Center: the former Mt. Morris public school located on Main St. in the center of Mt. Morris. Housed in the front of the building is the Mt. Morris Senior Citizen's Center.
Cumberland Mine: is owned by Foundation Coal Holdings, Inc. and is located approximately 12 miles south of Waynesburg in Perry, Whiteley, and Wayne Townships and have been in operation since 1977. All of the coal at the Cumberland Mine is processed through a preparation plant before being loaded onto Foundation Coal’s owned and operated railroad for transportation to the Monongahela River dock site.
At the dock site, coal is loaded into barges for transportation to river-served utilities or to other docks for subsequent rail shipment to non-river-served utilities. The mine can also ship a portion of its production via truck. Cumberland shipped 7.0 million tons of coal in 2005. As of December 31, 2005, Cumberland had an assigned reserve base of 102.3 million tons. Cumberland has approximately 611 salaried and hourly employees.
Clubs:
American Legion Post 992 — Open 7 days a week. PO Box 287, Mt. Morris, PA 15349
Mt. Morris Lions Club — Meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at the Mt. Morris Senior Center
Mt. Morris Senior Center — open Monday-Friday
Parks and Recreational Facilities:
Perry Township Community Park — located at the township building, 799 Big Shannon Run Road in Mt. Morris, PA (park at rear of Community Center) features a new pavilion and a ball park, a basketball court, a tennis court, playground and picnic tables. For more information, contact the Perry Township Office at 724-324-2861.
Boy Scout Camp
Mt. Morris RV Park
Mason-Dixon Historical Park which straddles the PA / WV line with portions in Perry Twp. and the other portion in Monongalia County, PA.
The PA portion of the park is mostly wooded and hosts several hiking trails, log cabin, playground, trailer connections (Small camper hookup sites are available at park (Cost: $12.00 per day plus tax). Electric is available and flush toilets are also available April through mid-October. No shower facilities). Also, the western most marker on the Mason-Dixon line.
The main park headquarters, located on the WV side contains several meeting houses, amphitheater, playground, pavilions and a boat launching ramp on Dunkard Creek.
Also located in Perry Township is the Township sports field on Hobbs Run Road.
Mason-Dixon Park located on Buckeye Road
Churches in Perry Township:
Mount Morris Gospel Tabernacle, 100 Wades Run Road, Mount Morris, PA 15349,(724) 324-2454. Read about the history of: Mt. Morris Gospel Tabernacle of the Assemblies of Godcompiled by Amy E. Anderson, Dec. 1992; updated by Joyce Anderson and Philip Long, Apr., 1998.
Cemeteries: Lemley Cemetery, Cedar Grove Cemetery, Troy Cemetery, Headley Cemetery.
Streams, rivers, and creeks: Fox Run, Shannon Run, Calvin Run, Watkins Run, Hobbs Run.
PENNSYLVANIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT:
(Information Source: wikipedia.org (Wikipedia, the Free Online Encyclopedia))
Local government in Pennsylvania is a mosaic of 5,334 individual units. All were established by the State or provincial government and operate under laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Each unit is distinct and independent of other local units, although they may overlap geographically and may act together to serve the public.
Perry Township is located within Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,720 at the 2000 census.
USEPA FIPS Code for Pennsylvania = 42, Greene County = 059 (42059).
Federal Information Processing Standards Codes for states, counties, and named populated places; are a standardized set of numeric or alphabetic codes issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to ensure uniform identification of geographic entities through all federal government agencies. The entities covered include: states and statistically equivalent entities, counties and statistically equivalent entities, named populated and related location entities (such as, places and county subdivisions), and American Indian and Alaska Native areas.
Watersheds: Ohio Basin, Monongahela Subbasin (Source: www.dep.state.pa.us).
A watershed is an area of land that drains into a lake or river. As rainwater and melting snow run downhill, they carry sediment and other materials into our streams, lakes, wetlands and groundwater (Source www.ctic.purdue.edu)
To search for cemeteries, villages and other features within Greene County, visit the USGS Geographical Names Information System (GNIS) to determine what 7.5' topographic map(s) depict specific geographic features.
For general information, please contact the Information Services at 724-852-5399 / Toll Free: 1-888-852-5399. County Office Building, 93 E. High Street, Waynesburg, PA 15370
Ronald Howard, Chairman
Mt. Morris Cornerstone Health Care Center