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Map of Adams County, Pennsylvania with municipal labels showing boroughs (red), townships (white), and census-designated places (blue) The Gettysburg, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area is a small urban area of southern Pennsylvania. Adams County makes up the entire statistical area. The population is 101,407 as of the 2010 census.
Adams County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 103,852. [2] Its county seat is Gettysburg. [3] The county was created on January 22, 1800, from part of York County, and was named for John Adams, the second President of the United States.
Gettysburg (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ t i z b ɜːr ɡ /; locally / ˈ ɡ ɛ t ɪ s b ɜːr ɡ / ⓘ) [4] is a borough in Pennsylvania and the county seat of Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. [5] As of the 2020 census , the borough had a population of 7,106 people.
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The area around the factory eventually became known as the company town of Hershey, Pennsylvania. The town was officially founded in 1903 and completed in 1905, namely for the company’s workers, and their homes had modern amenities such as electricity, indoor plumbing, and central heating.
The following is a list of the 67 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.
Additionally, three more counties are included as part of the Harrisburg–York–Lebanon, PA combined statistical area. [5] Collectively, they have a population of 1,271,801 people, making it the 46th-most-populous combined statistical area (CSA) in the United States, and the 3rd-most-populous CSA in the state of Pennsylvania. [2]
Pennsylvania Route 116 (PA 116) is an east–west route located Adams and York counties in southern Pennsylvania. The route begins at PA 16 in Carroll Valley in Adams County, heading northeast through rural areas and passing through Fairfield. PA 116 passes through the historic Civil War town of Gettysburg, where the Battle of Gettysburg was held.