Kingsessing
Kingsessing is a neighborhood in the Southwest section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. On the west side of the Schuylkill River, it is next to the neighborhoods of Cedar Park and Elmwood Park, as well as the borough of Yeadon in Delaware County.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Neighborhood with 19,700 residents
- Description: human settlement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Also known as: “Kingsessing, Philadelphia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Berry Long Memorial Methodist Church and S. Weir Mitchell School.
S. Weir Mitchell School
School
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The S. Weir Mitchell Elementary School is a historic American elementary school in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
Hardy Williams Academy
School
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The Hardy Williams Academy, formerly the Anna Howard Shaw Junior High School, is a historic junior high school building located in the Southwest Schuylkill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Angora and Cedar Park.
Angora
Neighborhood
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Angora is a neighborhood in the Southwest section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Although its boundaries are not precise, it is roughly bounded by the Cobbs Creek neighborhood to the north, Cobbs Creek to the west, Kingsessing to the south and east, and Cedar Park to the east.
Cedar Park
Neighborhood
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Cedar Park is a neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Located in the larger West Philadelphia district, it stretches north to Larchwood Avenue, south to Kingsessing Avenue, east to 46th Street, and west to 52nd Street.
Paschall
Neighborhood
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Elmwood Park, also known simply as Elmwood, is a neighborhood in the Southwest section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It borders the city line with Delaware County at Cobbs Creek, and extends to the Schuylkill River.
Kingsessing
- Category: locality
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.93678° or 39° 56′ 12″ northLongitude
-75.22963° or 75° 13′ 47″ westPopulation
19,700Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)Open location code
87F6WQPC+P4OpenStreetMap ID
node 158229421OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
4558980Wikidata ID
Q6413196
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Kingsessing” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “金塞辛”
- Dutch: “Kingsessing”
- French: “Kingsessing”
- Russian: “Кингсессинг”
- Swedish: “Kingsessing”
- Turkish: “Kingsessing”
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