Nether Providence Township

Nether Providence Township is a first class township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Many residents refer to the township by the name of its largest community, Wallingford, because the Wallingford postal code is used for most of the township. The population was 13,456 at the 2000 census. Nether Providence Township is located at 39°53′40″N 75°22′25″W / 39.89444°N 75.37361°W / 39.89444; -75.37361 . According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 4.7 square miles , of which,... 4.7 square miles of it is land and 0.21% is water. Major boundaries include Crum Creek and Ridley Creek. The first recorded inhabitants of Nether Providence Township were Native Americans of the Lenape tribe, who lived in the area for about five hundred years, but by 1740 few remained. On August 14, 1682, two months before William Penn's landing in Chester, John Sharpless came to the area. Penn had given Sharpless a thousand-acre tract and he settled near Ridley Creek. By the time Penn arrived, there were several small settlements in the area, which became known as Providence Township.
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