Piscataquis County Post Offices

Piscataquis County

There are 12 US Post Offices in Piscataquis County serving a total of 22,568 residents equating to 1,881 residents per post office. It's estimated that approximately 36,021 packages are handled across the 12 county post offices annually. Piscataquis County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maine. As of the 2010 census, its population was 17,535, making it Maine's least-populous county. Its county seat is Dover-Foxcroft. The county was incorporated on 23 March 1838, taken from the western part of Penobscot County and the eastern part of Somerset County, and is named for an Abenaki word meaning \"branch of the river\" or \"at the river branch.\" It is located at the geographic center of Maine. Originally it extended north to the Canada\u2013US border, but in 1844 its northern portion was annexed by Aroostook County. In land area, Piscataquis is one of the largest U.S. counties east of the Mississippi River. It is also one of two counties in the Northeast (and seven counties east of the Mississippi River) that meets Frederick Jackson Turner's requirements for \"frontier\" country \u2013 that is, having fewer than six inhabitants per square mile, the other being Hamilton County, New York. Baxter State Park, a large wilderness preserve, is located in Piscataquis County."

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