Boyers, Pennsylvania
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Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...
in Marion Township
Marion Township, Pennsylvania
Marion Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania:*Marion Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania*Marion Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania*Marion Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania*Marion Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania...
, Butler County
Butler County, Pennsylvania
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 174,083 people, 65,862 households, and 46,827 families residing in the county. The population density was 221 people per square mile . There were 69,868 housing units at an average density of 89 per square mile...
, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
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, United States
United States
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. It has a small population with a few businesses located in the center of the town. Slippery Rock Creek
Slippery Rock Creek
Slippery Rock Creek is a small stream in Western Pennsylvania, a tributary of Connoquenessing Creek. From its source in Hilliards in Butler County, it flows through McConnells Mill State Park before flowing into the Connoquenessing in Ellwood City. Then, the Connoquenessing flows into the Beaver...
flows through the community. The creek's source is a few miles to the east, in the small village of Hilliards
Hilliards, Pennsylvania
Hilliards is an unincorporated village in Washington Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The village of Hilliards started out as a mill town, known as Hilliards Mills and became known as Hilliards Station when the Shenango and Allegheny Railroad extended a small route to the...
. PA 308
Pennsylvania Route 308
Pennsylvania Route 308 is an long state highway located in Butler and Venango counties in Pennsylvania. The southern terminus is at PA 8 near Butler...
is one of the main roads in the area. The secondary state highway runs through the center of Boyers.
History
Boyers was a large mining community at the turn of the 20th century, serviced by a branch of the Bessemer and Lake Erie RailroadBessemer and Lake Erie Railroad
The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad is a class II railroad that operates in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio.The railroad's main route runs from the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, a distance of 139 miles...
known as the Hilliards
Hilliards, Pennsylvania
Hilliards is an unincorporated village in Washington Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The village of Hilliards started out as a mill town, known as Hilliards Mills and became known as Hilliards Station when the Shenango and Allegheny Railroad extended a small route to the...
branch. The rails were removed in the early 2000s.
The abandoned mines have provided opportunities for underground storage facilities. The Iron Mountain Corporation
Iron Mountain Incorporated
Iron Mountain Inc , founded in 1951, is a company whose headquarters are located in Boston, Massachusetts. It offers records management, information destruction and data backup services to more than 120,000 customers throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia...
has a large storage facility located in a former limestone
Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....
mine
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...
close to Boyers, where the Corbis
Corbis
Corbis Corporation is an American company, based in Seattle, Washington, that licenses the rights to photographs, footage and other visual media...
photographic collection is stored. The United States Office of Personnel Management
Office of Personnel Management
The United States Office of Personnel Management is an independent agency of the United States government that manages the civil service of the federal government. The current Director is John Berry.-History:...
(OPM) maintains a highly secure facility in an abandoned mine in Boyers, PA. This contains all the documents from security clearance proceedings. The United States Patent and Trademark Office
United States Patent and Trademark Office
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property identification.The USPTO is based in Alexandria, Virginia,...
stores original records in an underground storage facility in Boyers.