Boyers, Pennsylvania

History

Boyers was a large mining community at the turn of the twentieth century, serviced by a branch of the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad known as the Hilliards branch. The rails were removed in the early 2000s.

Iron Mountain facility

The abandoned mines have provided opportunities for underground storage facilities since 1954. The Iron Mountain Corporation merged with the longtime owner of the facility in 1998 and operates a large storage facility located in a former limestone mine close to Boyers. The Corbis photographic collection is stored there.

The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) operates a highly secure facility in an abandoned mine in Boyers which contains all the documents from security clearance proceedings. OPM also operates its processing center for retired federal employees in Boyers. At an underground limestone mine, the retirement of federal employees is processed on paper by hand, and the information is stored in file cabinets. It takes an average of 61 days to process the retirement of each federal employee.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office stores original records in the Iron Mountain facility.

Demographics

| align-fn = center

The United States Census Bureau defined Boyers as a census designated place (CDP) in 2023.

References

References

1. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/03/22/sinkhole-of-bureaucracy/ Sinkhole of bureaucracy], Washington Post, March 22, 2014, [https://archive.today/20230703135113/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/03/22/sinkhole-of-bureaucracy/ Archive]
2. (July 1994). "Technical Information Paper No. 12 : Digital-Imaging and Optical Digital Data Disk Storage Systems: Long-Term Access Strategies for Federal Agencies". [[National Archives and Records Administration]].
3. Fahrenthold, David. (March 22, 2014). "Sinkhole of bureaucracy". [[The Washington Post]].
4. Kane, Karen. (November 26, 2000). "Region's basement stores our stuff". [[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]].
5. Mearian, Lucas. (December 9, 2009). "22 stories underground: Iron Mountain's experimental Room 48".
6. (July 1, 2023). "B03002 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – Boyers CDP, Pennsylvania – 2023 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates". [[U.S. Census Bureau]].
7. "2023 Geography Changes". [[United States Census Bureau]].