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Salisbury is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 707 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania , Metropolitan Statistical Area .
White Chimneys in Salisbury Township Near White Horse in the township. Salisbury Township was carved out of Pequea Township in 1729 and named for Salisbury, England.Though still mostly agricultural, it has been a center of commerce and industry of Lancaster County, with nickel mining beginning in 1718 and a more profitable limestone mining beginning soon after.
Salisbury Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania: Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
Mason County, West Virginia lies across the Ohio River to the south. It is the farthest downstream of Meigs County's Ohio River townships. Two villages are located along Salisbury Township's shoreline: Middleport , the largest village in the county, in the southwest, and Pomeroy , the county seat , in the southeast.
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.
An 1836 map of Pennsylvania's counties. The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, used by the U.S. government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry. FIPS codes are five-digit numbers; for Pennsylvania the codes start with 42 and are completed with the three-digit county code.
The area that became Lancaster County was part of William Penn's 1681 charter. [8] John Kennerly received the first recorded deed from Penn in 1691. [9] Although Matthias Kreider was said to have been in the area as early as 1691, there is no evidence that any Europeans settled in Lancaster County before 1710.
The U.S. state of Pennsylvania is divided into 1,546 townships, located in 66 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties. For listings of townships in individual counties, see the category Townships in Pennsylvania by county