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Starrucca is a small borough in Wayne County, in the far northeastern corner of Pennsylvania, and its name is pronounced 'STRUK-ə.'

The community was settled around 1800 and was first incorporated in 1853 under the name Wayne Borough.

On April 10, 1873, the borough was renamed Starrucca Borough, taking its new name from Starrucca Creek, which flows through it.

Local tradition offers rival explanations for the name: one says the settlement was named after the founder's horse, which he rode while surveying the land, while another holds that it comes from a Native American term meaning 'where waters meet.'

Starrucca is one of only six boroughs in all of Wayne County, alongside Honesdale, Hawley, Waymart, Bethany, and Prompton.

The borough is unusually large in area for its population, spreading across roughly 9 square miles of rural Wayne County countryside.

Starrucca's population has been shrinking for decades: the 2000 census counted 216 residents, the 2010 census counted 173 people in 75 households, and the 2020 census counted just 169.

The historic Stone Arch Bridge over Starrucca Creek was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 1, 1979, but it was demolished and delisted on May 8, 1986.

The borough sits at about 1,370 feet above sea level in the glaciated hill country west of the Delaware River.