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Emmaus (/ ɛ ˈ m eɪ. ə s / em-AY-əs) is a borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census , it had a population of 11,652. [ 3 ] Emmaus is located in the Lehigh Valley , the third-largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania and 68th-largest metropolitan area in the nation.
Salisbury Township is a township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.The township's population was 13,621 at the 2020 census. [2] The township borders Allentown, Pennsylvania's third-largest city, Bethlehem, and Emmaus, 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.
Home rule municipalities in Pennsylvania enjoy the opposite situation (i.e., they may govern themselves except where expressly forbidden by state law), and are governed according to their unique home rule charter rather than one of the above codes. While most home rule charter municipalities continue to reference their previous forms of ...
Boroughs designated in the table below with a dagger (†) are home rule municipalities and are also found in the List of Pennsylvania municipalities and counties with home rule charters, optional charters, or optional plans. The state classifies these as boroughs for certain purposes, even though they do not operate under the Borough Code in ...
Macungie is derived from "Maguntsche", a place name used as early as 1730 [5] to describe the region that is present-day Macungie and Emmaus, Pennsylvania. "Maguntsche" is a Lenape word, meaning either "bear swamp" [3] or "feeding place of the bears". [5] The borough's current seal depicts a bear coming to drink at water near some cattails. [6]
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted in red. Pennsylvania is a state located in the Northeastern United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census, Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state with 13,002,700 inhabitants [1] and the 32nd-largest by land area spanning 44,742.70 square miles (115,883.1 km 2) of land. [2]
Upper Milford Township is a township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.The township's population was 7,292 at the 2010 census. [2] Upper Milford Township is a rural area southwest 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.
Upper Macungie Township is a township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population of Upper Macungie Township was 26,377 as of the 2020 U.S. census, [2] making it the fourth-fastest growing municipality of any category in Pennsylvania in terms of total population growth between 2010 and 2020.