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 Our Township:
Wayne Township was settled in 1807 and incorporated 1808. Wayne Township is in Congressional District 12, 46th Senatorial District and 50th Legislative District of Pennsylvania.
Wayne Township is one of the most rural areas in Greene County; larger acre residential properties are scattered throughout the township while dense residential development is centered in the villages of Blacksville (West Virginia) and Brave, along the West Virginia state line.
The geography of Wayne Township according to the
United States Census Bureau, has a total area of 102l3
km² (39.5
mi²) 102.1
km² (39.4
mi²), of it
is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it (0.10%) is water.
Coal extraction is still in operation in Wayne Township. As such, there are several industrial land uses.
The largest concentration of properties classified as industrial use can be found in the Southeastern corner of the tonwship between Rudolph Run and the village of Blacksville.
The Wayne Township municipal buldings consist of an equipment building and a house that has been converted for office use.
The buildings are centrally located in the Spraggs community along SR 218, making it convenient to most of the population of the township.
Children living within Wayne Township attend schools within the Central Greene School District that include:
Margaret Bell Miller Middle School (724-852-2722)
Perry Elementary (724-324-2687)
Greene County Career Development Center (Vo-Tech) (724-627-3106)
Waynesburg Central Elementary (724-627-3081)
Waynesburg Central High (724-852-1050)
Administration Offices (724-627-8151)
Voting Precincts: for residents of Wayne Township vote in one of the following locations:
Wayne East: Wayne Township Supervisors Building
132 Spraggs Road, Spraggs, PA 15362
Wayne West: Wayne Township Volunteer Fire Department
123 Oak Forest Road, Brave, PA 15316
For more information, contact the Greene County Elections Office at 724-852-5304. 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. Wayne Township Officials:< (List updated 1/7/2010)
Chairman: Tim V. Chapman, PO Box 53, Spraggs, PA 15362
Phone: 724-435-9895
Vice Chairman: John A. Wells, Jr., 663 Bluff Ridge Road, Waynesburg, PA 15370
Phone: 724-852-1729
Supervisor: C. Bryan Cole, 606 Bluff Ridge Road, Waynesburg, PA 15370
Phone: 724-627-6854
Secretary-Treasurer: Patricia C. Smith, PO Box 37, Spraggs, PA 15362
Phone: 724-435-7316
Solicitor: J. William Hook, 189 West High Street, Waynesburg, PA 15370
Phone: 724-627-6146
Gary Cumberledge, 1052 Oak Forest Road. Brave, PA 15316
Phone: 724-435-4316
Richard Fixel, PO Box 81, Spraggs, PA 15362
Phone: 724-435-7237
Lynda Bush, 293 Old Scale Road, Waynesburg, PA 15370
Phone: 724-627-7310
Elected Tax Collector: Joan L. Lemley
PO Box 741, Brave, PA 15316 (Phone: 724-451-8283)
Appointed Tax Collector: Central Tax Bureau, Waynesburg, PA 15370
(Phone: 724-627-8980)
Emergency Management Coordinator: Richard Owens
PO Box , Waynesburg, PA 15370 (Phone:724-627-9317)
Building Permit Officer: Steve R. Coss (Phone: 724-852-2168)
Sewage Officer: Mike Petrus, 11 Colonial Avenue, Smock, PA 15480
(Phone: 724-627-2741)
Scheduled Board Meetings: are held at 4:00 p.m. on the 4th Thursday of every month at Wayne Township Municipal Building, Spraggs, PA 15362 Meeting Notes:forthcoming Permits and Ordinances:forthcoming Notable mentions within Wayne Township:
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 has 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.
Wayne Township VFD: is located at 123 Oak Forest Road and serves all of Wayne Township and the easter portion of neighboring Gilmore Township.
Operating funds for the fire department comes from a percentage of taxes levied by Wayne Township.
Brave Water Authority: serves approximately 200 customers and purchases water from the Morgantown Utility Board, which draws water from the Monongahela River and Cobun Creek Reservoir.
The Morgantown Utility Board is responsible for providing the primary water treatment of water and monitoring of water quality.
Natural Resources:
Tally Hollow Farm: A 66-acre form family farm was longwalled mined by Consol Energy before leasing the farm land to Sustaining Greene County, a nonprofit environmental group that runs farming and forestry demonstration projects aimed at lowering polution levels in the water. As with many streams in Greene County, erosion and sedimentation dominate Rudolf Run. Tally Hollow will be the first demonstration site in Greene County that highlights forestry best management practices, and will include forest stand plantings, better timbering practices, stream management practices, and free-range poultry production by funding made available from the PA DEP Growing Greener grant program.
The GCWA is partnering in this effort with Sustaining Greene County by providing water-qualty stream monitoring for the purpose of education/outreach.
With the assistance of Canaan Valley Institute and WV DEP, a water-quality monitoring plan will be developed specifically to the unnamed stream that flows through Tally Hollow.
Conservation District Project: Woodland Avenue Storm Water Assessment Project.
Historical / National Registered Listed Properties:
The King Covered Bridge over Hoover Run (off Rt 218 at TR 353 & TR 522 in Spraggs), was constructed in 1890 and was restored in June 16, 2005 but retains its historical look.
The covered bridge is of a Queen Post construction and is unpainted and covered with random-width vertical board siding with a sheet-metal roof. Dimensions of the bridge are 46'6"Lx15'W.
The King Covered Bridge is a nationally registered listed property - listed June 22, 1979.
Brass Plant in Brave
Parks and Recreation:
Dunkard Valley Gun Club: is a private gun club encompassing 3.4 acres and is located along Toms Run Road in Brave, PA.
Attractions: Kent Christmas Tree Farm; Shields Nursery and Winery
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. Greene Township is located within Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 445 at the 2000 census. Information Links and more:
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, the Dunkard Creek Watershed (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.
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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
Tim V. Chapman, Chairman
