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Unlike other forms of municipalities in Pennsylvania, boroughs and towns are not classified according to population. 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 ...
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]
The municipal offices sign for Littlestown, Pennsylvania, a borough in the state. In the United States Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a borough (sometimes spelled boro) is a self-governing municipal entity, equivalent to a town in most jurisdictions, [1] usually smaller than a city, but with a similar population density in its residential areas.
The first borough to be incorporated in Pennsylvania was Germantown in 1690. [10] That borough ceased to exist when all of Philadelphia's municipalities were consolidated in 1854. The borough of Chester Heights has a unique distinction of incorporating into a borough out of Aston Township by a tax revolt. [11]
Most municipalities in Pennsylvania must follow state law except where the state has expressly given jurisdiction to the municipality, and are therefore subject to the Third Class City Code, the Borough Code, the First Class Township Code, the Second Class Township Code, or other acts for sui generis municipalities.
The main article for this category is Borough (Pennsylvania) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boroughs in Pennsylvania; See also categories Cities in Pennsylvania, Home Rule Municipalities in Pennsylvania, Townships in Pennsylvania, Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania counties
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Boroughs in Pennsylvania. It includes boroughs that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This is a container category .
Newtown is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.The population was 2,268 at the 2020 census. [5] It is located just west of the Trenton, New Jersey metropolitan area, and is part of the larger Philadelphia metropolitan area.