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Lancaster (/ ˈ l æ ŋ k ɪ s t ər / LANG-kih-stər) also referred to as Lancaster City is a city in and the county seat of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. [4] With a population of 58,039 at the 2020 census , [ 5 ] it is the tenth-most populous city in the state. [ 6 ]
It is in the central area of the county, and it immediately surrounds Lancaster City. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 18,591. [2] Lancaster Township is one of the six immediate suburbs of the city of Lancaster, all sharing the same official designation as Lancaster, Pennsylvania, by the United States Postal Service. [3]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 29.7 square miles (76.8 km 2), of which 29.6 square miles (76.7 km 2) are land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2), or 0.07%, are water. It is bordered to the west by the borough of Manheim.
With a population of 552,984 as of the 2020 U.S. census, the Lancaster, PA metropolitan area is the sixth most populous metropolitan area in Pennsylvania, after the Delaware Valley, Greater Pittsburgh, the Lehigh Valley, the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area, and the Wyoming Valley.
Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania and sixth-largest city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797, and the center of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metropolitan area, the state's largest metropolitan statistical area and nation's seventh-largest with a population of 6,245,051 Pittsburgh, the second-largest city in Pennsylvania, and the center of Greater ...
Park City Center is a shopping mall located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and is the largest enclosed shopping center in Lancaster County. It is situated at the intersection of U.S. Route 30 and Harrisburg Pike. The mall has over 170 stores and features Boscov's, JCPenney, Kohl's, Raymour & Flanigan, and Round 1 Bowling & Amusement. [3]
One oddity did appear in 1923: Samuel Strause opened a 3 ft 0 in (0.91 m) gauge logging operation at Penryn Park, a short portion of which extended into Lancaster County to transfer timber to the Cornwall & Mount Hope RR for shipment. This was Lancaster County's only logging line, and was sporadically active until 1936, being scrapped in 1941. [9]
Sod is grown on specialist farms. For 2009, the United States Department of Agriculture reported 1,412 farms had 368,188 acres (149,000.4 ha) of sod in production. [9]It is usually grown locally (within 100 miles of the target market) [10] to minimize both the cost of transport and also the risk of damage to the product.