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Fertility is an unincorporated community located along Strasburg Pike, in East Lampeter Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. [ 1 ] References
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 ...
Counties constituting the Coal Region of Pennsylvania. The Coal Region is a term used to refer to an area of Northeastern Pennsylvania in the central Appalachian Mountains. The region is home to the largest known deposits of anthracite coal in the world with an estimated a reserve of seven billion tons. Schuylkill; Carbon; Northumberland ...
Donegal Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, 1857. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 49.2 square miles (127 km 2), of which 49.1 square miles (127 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2) (0.28%) is water. The township is located on the west slope of Laurel Ridge mountain.
Pennsylvania is one of 13 original colonies that share a border with Canada. Pennsylvania is 180 miles (290 km) north to south and 310 miles (500 km) east to west. The total land area is 44,817 square miles (116,080 km 2)—739,200 acres (2,991 km 2) of which are bodies of water. It is the 33rd largest state in the United States.
The area was called the Manor of Conestoga and may have been (as some historians speculate that it was) set aside by William Penn as a domain in which the Susquehannock tribe could live and hunt. The Manor contained 16,000 acres east of the Susquehanna River, thus being mostly well-watered flat land that contained rich and fertile soil.
Interactive map of the numbering plan areas of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (blue). This is a list of telephone area codes of Pennsylvania . In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company divided Pennsylvania into four numbering plan areas (NPAs) and assigned distinct area codes for each.
Pennsylvania Route 897 (Swartzville Road) crosses PA 272 in the center of Swartzville, leading northwest 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to Reinholds and south 6 miles (10 km) to Terre Hill. Via US 222, Lancaster, the county seat, is 21 miles (34 km) to the southwest and Reading is 12 miles (19 km) to the northeast. Exit 266 on the Pennsylvania Turnpike is ...