Highland Township
Highland Township is a township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States, which was created in 1863 from parts of Hamiltonban, Cumberland, and Franklin townships. The population was 997 at the time of the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 997 residents
- Description: township in Adams County, Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “Highland Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania” and “Township of Highland”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include McKnightstown and Knoxlyn.
McKnightstown
Hamlet
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McKnightstown is a census-designated place in Franklin Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was formerly part of the Cashtown-McKnightstown CDP as of the 2000 census, and was then split into two separate CDPs for the 2010 census. McKnightstown is situated 3½ miles north of Highland Township.
Knoxlyn
Hamlet
Knoxlyn is an unincorporated community situated in Highland Township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located 8 kilometers west of Gettysburg between U.S. Route 30 and Pennsylvania Route 116.
Virginia Mills
Hamlet
Virginia Mills, Pennsylvania was an 1889 stop on the Western Extension of the Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway near Fairfield, Pennsylvania and the site of the 1863 Battle of Fairfield in the American Civil War. Virginia Mills is situated 3 miles southwest of Highland Township.
Highland Township
- Category: township of Pennsylvania
- Location: Adams County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Vietnamese—“Highland Township” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Highland Township”
- French: “Highland Township”
- German: “Highland Township”
- Italian: “Highland”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Highland”
- Ukrainian: “Гайленд Тауншип”
- Vietnamese: “Xã Highland, Quận Adams, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Xã Highland”
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