Dewart, PA

Dewart is a Northumberland County census-designated place in Delaware Township, close to the West Branch Susquehanna River along Pennsylvania Route 405. The river is the clearest geographic cue: it places the community in the West Branch valley, where roads and older trade routes followed the water before canals and railroads changed the county’s freight map. Northumberland County’s history ties those later rail lines to the anthracite coal trade, while Dewart’s local school connection runs through Warrior Run School District. The local shorthand is river valley, Route 405, Delaware Township, and a small community on the north side of the county’s transportation story.