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Evitts Creek, a tributary of the North Branch Potomac River, flows southwards through the valley, and U.S. Route 220 passes through the center of the valley as well. According to the United States Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 60.2 square miles (156.0 km 2 ), of which 59.7 square miles (154.5 km 2 ) is land and 0.58 square ...
The Village of Valley Forge is an unincorporated settlement. It is located on the west side of Valley Forge National Historical Park at the confluence of Valley Creek and the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania. The remaining village is in Schuylkill Township of Chester County. It once spanned Valley Creek into Montgomery County.
Three of these sites are shared with other states and are credited by the National Park Service as being located in those other states: the Delaware and Hudson Canal (centered in New York but extending into Pennsylvania); the Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey (on the Ohio–Pennsylvania border); and the Minisink Archeological Site ...
The Great Valley forms a natural route to the west from the Philadelphia area. Both the Pennsylvania Turnpike and U.S. Route 202 follow the eastern portion of the valley. U.S. Route 30 enters the valley around Malvern and serves as the main thoroughfare in the valley as far west as Coatesville, where Pennsylvania Route 372 becomes the main road along the valley to its western end.
Located in the 700-acre Stone Valley Recreation Area: Silver Lake Nature Center: Bristol: Bucks: Delaware Valley: website, 235 acres with over 4 miles of trails, operated by the County South Park Nature Center: South Park: Allegheny: Pittsburgh Metro Area: 2,013-acre park, operated by the County Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve: Fairfield: Adams ...
Pocopson is a mostly rural community, home to (besides residential areas) three restaurants, two parks, two veterinary offices, a career coaching practice, a canoe rental company, a dentist office, a beauty salon, a coffee shop, a florist, a prison and juvenile detention center, a retirement home, a post office, a hardware store, an elementary school, a fencing company and a steelworking hall.
The main route of travel through the valley is PA Route 192 which starts at Centre Hall and travels the entirety of the valley before the valley ends near the village of Livonia in the Bald Eagle State Forest near R.B. Winter State Park. [1] The valley is a little over 16 mi (26 km) in length and averages around 1 mi (1.6 km) in width.
The majority of the settled portion of the township is in Sinking Valley, between the two arms of the mountain. According to the United States Census Bureau, Tyrone Township has a total area of 41.9 square miles (108.4 km 2), of which 41.8 square miles (108.3 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2), or 0.11%, is water. [5]