Fort Loudon
Fort Loudon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Peters Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 895.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 886 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Franklin County, Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “Fort Loudon, Franklin County, Pennsylvania”, “Fort Loudon, PA”, “Fort Loudon, Pennsylvania”, and “Loudon”
- Postal code: 17224
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Loudoun and Parnell Knob.
Fort Loudoun
Fort
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fort Loudoun was a fort in colonial Pennsylvania, one of several forts in colonial America named after John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun. The fort was built in 1756 during the French and Indian War by the Second Battalion of the Pennsylvania Regiment under… Fort Loudoun is situated 1½ miles southeast of Fort Loudon.
Parnell Knob
Peak
Photo: Calzarette, Public domain.
Parnell Knob is a mountain in the Ridge and Valley Appalachians region of south central Pennsylvania. This knob rises above the village of St. Thomas, where Front Mountain and Broad mountain come together. Parnell Knob is situated 2½ miles east of Fort Loudon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Markes and Richmond Furnace.
Markes
Hamlet
Markes is an unincorporated community in Peters Township, Franklin County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Markes is situated 3½ miles southeast of Fort Loudon.
Richmond Furnace
Hamlet
Richmond Furnace is an unincorporated community in Franklin County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Richmond Furnace is situated 3½ miles north of Fort Loudon.
Cove Gap
Hamlet
Cove Gap is an unincorporated community in Peters Township in Franklin County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 16 in the western portion of the township, near Buchanan's Birthplace State Park. Cove Gap is situated 4 miles southwest of Fort Loudon.
Fort Loudon
Latitude
39.91479° or 39° 54′ 53″ northLongitude
-77.90501° or 77° 54′ 18″ westPopulation
886Elevation
633 feet (193 metres)United Nations Location Code
US FL9Open location code
87F4W37V+WXOpenStreetMap ID
node 158478152OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Fort Loudon” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Fort Loudon”
- Chechen: “Форт-Лаудон”
- French: “Fort Loudon”
- German: “Fort Loudon”
- Gilaki: “فؤرت لادن (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “فؤرت لادن”
- Irish: “Fort Loudon”
- Italian: “Fort Loudon”
- Ladin: “Fort Loudon”
- Malagasy: “Fort Loudon, Franklin County, Pennsylvania”
- Malagasy: “Fort Loudon”
- Persian: “فورت لودون، پنسیلوانیا”
- Persian: “فورت لودون”
- South Azerbaijani: “فورت لودون، پنسیلوانیا”
- Tatar: “Форт-Лаудон”
- Turkish: “Fort Loudon, PA”
- Turkish: “Fort Loudon”
- Ukrainian: “Форт-Лаудон”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fort Loudon”. Photo: Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC BY 2.0.