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The Allegheny Front reaches its highest elevation in Pennsylvania at Blue Knob, 3,136 feet (956 m), an unusual bulge along this symmetrical ridgeline. Streams that cut into the ridge are often shallow and steep.
The Erie Triangle is a roughly 300-square-mile (780-square-kilometre) tract of land that was the subject of several competing colonial-era claims.It was eventually acquired by the U.S. federal government and sold to Pennsylvania so that the state would have access to a freshwater port on Lake Erie.
The Pennsylvania Dutch region in south-central Pennsylvania is a favorite for sightseers. The Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, and at least 15 other sects are common in the rural areas around the cities of Lancaster, York, and Harrisburg with smaller populations extending northeast to the Lehigh Valley and up to the Susquehanna Valley.
Cold air damming, or CAD, is a meteorological phenomenon that involves a high-pressure system (anticyclone) accelerating equatorward east of a north-south oriented mountain range due to the formation of a barrier jet behind a cold front associated with the poleward portion of a split upper level trough. Initially, a high-pressure system moves ...
The Wedge (or Delaware Wedge) is a 1.068-square-mile (684-acre; 2.77 km 2) [1] tract of land along the borders of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Ownership of the land was disputed until 1921; it is now recognized as part of Delaware. [ 2 ]
Fountainville is an unincorporated community in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. Fountainville is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 313 and Ferry Road at the tripoint of Doylestown, New Britain, and Plumstead townships. [2]
As of the 2010 census, the CDP was 85.8% Non-Hispanic White, 2.7% Black or African American, 0.1% Native American and Alaskan Native, 8.6% Asian, 0.4% were Some Other Race, and 1.0% were two or more races. 2.0% of the population were of Hispanic or Latino ancestry.
Heidelberg Township is a township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.The population of Heidelberg Township was 3,416 at the 2010 census. [2] It is a suburb of Allentown in the Lehigh Valley, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.