Thornton (in Delaware County, PA) Populated Place Profile. Thornton (GNIS FID: 1204811) is a populated place located within the Township of Thornbury, a minor civil division (MCD) of Delaware County. The elevation of Thornton is 459 feet. Thornton appears on the West Chester U.S. Geological Survey Map. Delaware County is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 hours).
Tennessee Highway Patrol. The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) is the highway patrol agency and de facto state police organization for the U.S. state of Tennessee, responsible for enforcing all federal and state laws relating to traffic on the state's federal and state highways.
Since its inception in 1929, the NC State Highway Patrol has suffered the most deaths of any law enforcement agency in North Carolina, with 61 Troopers, Patrolmen and DMV Officers having been killed in the line of duty; a large proportion of those have been killed by gunfire.