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The following is a list of the 70 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having been consolidated in 1854, and all remaining county government functions having been merged into the city after a 1951 referendum.
name = Philadelphia County Name used in the default map caption; image = PhilaDistrict.PNG The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 40.138 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 39.865 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = -75.285 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right ...
Within Kensington, various sub-neighborhoods including Harrowgate, Lower Kensington, West Kensington.Central Kensington, or "the Heart of Kensington" as it is called in a recent Impact Services neighborhood plan, [16] stretches along Kensington Avenue from Tusculum and Somerset Streets to Tioga Street (see Impact Services plan [16] for a more accurate map).
Philadelphia County is the most populous of the 67 counties of Pennsylvania and the 24th-most populous county in the nation.As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 1,603,797. [1]
Abington Township is a township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is adjacent to Philadelphia's northern fringe. [6] The population was 58,502 as of the 2020 census, making it the second most populous township in Montgomery County after Lower Merion Township.
Somerton is a neighborhood in the Far Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The neighborhood is bounded by Red Lion Road on the south, Roosevelt Boulevard on the east, East County Line Road and Poquessing Creek on the north, and the Philadelphia County / Montgomery County line on the west.
Drexel Hill is located in the western part of Upper Darby Township at (39.949962, -75.301841 The neighborhood is eight miles from Center City, Philadelphia and is bordered to the north by Haverford Township, to the east by the Kirklyn, Highland Park, Beverly Hills, and Bywood neighborhoods in Upper Darby Township, to the southeast by the borough of Lansdowne, to the south by the borough of ...
The name "Tacony" is derived from a Lenape word for "wilderness", it may possibly originate from the Lenape word tèkëne meaning forest or woods. [2] The deed for the land purchase of Hans Kyn (later "Keene" and "Keen"), a Swede, south of modern Cottman Avenue on the river, dated April 26, 1679, entered on the back of a grant from Governor Andros, March 25, 1676, is still in possession of the ...