History of District Heating in the United States

| Chronological List of District Heating Systems in the United States |

District Heating in Clearfield, Pennsylvania


The Clearfield Steam Heating Company was incorporated in June 1883 and built a system that began operating that year. The company was consolidated into the Penn Public Service Company in 1912.

The system was shut down in 1956.


References
1884 District steam supply : heating buildings by steam, from a central source, by James Herbert Bartlett | also here | reprinted in Scientific American Supplement  487:7772-7774 (May 2, 1885) | Tables |
Clearfield is included in the tables.

1887 History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
Pages 359-360:  Clearfield Steam Heating Company. This corporation was created in June, 1883, for the purpose of supplying steam heat for the borough of Clearfield, with a capital stock of $30,000, in six hundred shares of $50 each. The first officers elected were: A. B. Shaw, president; T. W. Moore, secretary; W. M. Shaw, treasurer; Edward Everett, superintendent. The company has a large boiler house built on lands in rear of the Opera House block. About nine thousand feet of pipe, three, four, and five inches in diameter, is laid through the streets of the borough. There were about sixty heat consumers in the place the first year; at the present time the number is increased to one hundred and thirty. Four large boilers are sufficient to supply the necessary heat in the most severe weather, and about twenty seven hundred tons of coal are consumed annually at the works. The company are now furnishing heat for about three and a half millions cubic feet of space. The officers first elected have been continued in office to the present time. The present board of directors consists of A. B. Shaw, William Powell, J. F. Weaver, F. B. Reed, and T. W. Moore.

1955 "Penelec to Abandon Heat Service in Clearfield," The News-Herald, November 11, 1955, Page 1.
87 customers in Clearfield


© 2024 Morris A. Pierce