Adams County
Pennsylvania Dutch Country is a region in Pennsylvania also referred to as South Central Pennsylvania. The region is home to many major tourist attractions such as Lancaster county's Amish country, Harrisburg's state capitol and museums and Hershey's chocolate world and theme park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: county of Pennsylvania with 101,000 residents
- Description: county in Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “Adams”, “Adams County, PA”, and “Adams County, Pennsylvania”
- Neighbors: Frederick County
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pennsylvania Hall.
Pennsylvania Hall
College building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Pennsylvania Hall is the Gettysburg College central administrative building and the college's oldest building. Designed in 1835 by John Cresson Trautwine, it was built in 1838 as a "temple-style edifice with four columns in the portico". Pennsylvania Hall is situated 2½ miles south of Adams County.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gettysburg and Hunterstown.
Gettysburg
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gettysburg, in Adams County in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, goes down in history as the battlefield in the Civil War where, despite terrible tragedy and loss of life, there was hope for the Union.
Hunterstown
Hamlet
Hunterstown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Straban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 506. Hunterstown is situated 3 miles east of Adams County.
Table Rock
Hamlet
Table Rock is a populated place and census-designated place north of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, in Adams County, that was the site of an 1885 Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad station. As of the 2020 census the population was 133. Table Rock is situated 3 miles north of Adams County.
Adams County
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Adams County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Adams County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة أدمز”
- Armenian: “Ադամս շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu d’Adams”
- Azerbaijani: “Adams dairəsi”
- Azerbaijani: “Adams”
- Basque: “Adams konderria”
- Bavarian: “Adams County, Pennsylvania”
- Bavarian: “Adams County”
- Bengali: “অ্যাডামস কাউন্টি”
- Bishnupriya: “আডামস কাউন্টি, পেনসিলভানিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “আডামস কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Адамс”
- Catalan: “comtat d’Adams”
- Cebuano: “Adams County”
- Chechen: “Адамс”
- Chinese: “Adams Kūn”
- Chinese: “亞當斯縣”
- Cornish: “Konteth Adams, Pennsylvani”
- Cornish: “Konteth Adams”
- Czech: “Adams County”
- Dutch: “Adams County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Adams”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Adams”
- Finnish: “Adamsin piirikunta”
- French: “Comte d’Adams (Pennsylvanie)”
- French: “comté d’Adams”
- French: “Comté d’Adams”
- Georgian: “ადამსის ოლქი”
- German: “Adams County”
- Gilaki: “آدامز ٚ شأرستان (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “آدامز ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “κομητεία Άνταμς”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Άνταμς”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אדמס”
- Hungarian: “Adams megye”
- Inari Sami: “Adams pirrâdâhkodde”
- Indonesian: “County Adams, Pennsylvania”
- Indonesian: “County Adams”
- Irish: “Contae Adams, Pennsylvania”
- Irish: “Contae Adams”
- Italian: “contea di Adams”
- Italian: “Contea di Adams”
- Japanese: “アダムズ郡”
- Korean: “애덤스군”
- Latin: “Adams Comitatus”
- Low German: “Adams County”
- Mazanderani: “آدامز شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Ā-dŏng Gông”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Adams Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Adams Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Adams County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Adams County i Pennsylvania”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Adams County”
- Norwegian: “Adams County”
- Persian: “شهرستان آدامز، پنسیلوانیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان آدامز”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Adams”
- Portuguese: “Condado de adams (pensilvânia)”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Adams”
- Romanian: “Adams County, Pennsylvania”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Adams, Pennsylvania”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Adams”
- Russian: “Адамс”
- Sardinian: “contea de Adams”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Adams County”
- Serbian: “Округ Адамс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Adams County, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Adams County”
- Slovenian: “Adams County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Adams”
- Spanish: “Condado de Adams (Pensilvania)”
- Spanish: “Condado de Adams”
- Swedish: “Adams County, Pennsylvania”
- Swedish: “Adams County”
- Tatar: “Адамс (округ, Пенсильвания)”
- Tatar: “Адамс”
- Tumbuka: “Adams County, Pennsylvania”
- Tumbuka: “Adams County”
- Turkish: “Adams County, Pa.”
- Turkish: “Adams County, PA”
- Turkish: “Adams County, Pensilvanya”
- Turkish: “Adams County”
- Turkish: “Adams ilçesi, Pa.”
- Turkish: “Adams ilçesi, PA”
- Turkish: “Adams ilçesi, Pensilvanya”
- Turkish: “Adams ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Адамс”
- Urdu: “ایڈمز کاؤنٹی، پنسلوانیا”
- Urdu: “ایڈمز کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Adams”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Adams, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Adams”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Adams, Pennsylvania”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Adams”
- Welsh: “Adams County, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Adams County”
- Western Panjabi: “ایڈمز کاؤنٹی، پنسلوانیا”
- Western Panjabi: “ایڈمز کاؤنٹی”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Adams County”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Barlow Knoll and Goldenville.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Oak Ridge and Old Alms House Cemetery.
Pennsylvania: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Scranton.
Curious Places to Discover
Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
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