East Texas
East Texas is a village in Lower Macungie Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is part of 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. Little Lehigh Creek forms its natural southern boundary.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement in Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Also known as: “East Texas, PA”, “East Texas, Pennsylvania”, “Macungie”, “Macungie Square”, “New Texas”, and “Texas”
- Postal code: 18046
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lehigh Valley Hospital and Steel Force.
Lehigh Valley Hospital
Hospital
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Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest, commonly referred to as Lehigh Valley Hospital, is a hospital located at 1200 South Cedar Crest Boulevard in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Lehigh Valley Hospital is situated 2½ miles northeast of East Texas.
Steel Force
Roller coaster
Photo: Coasterman1234, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Steel Force is a steel roller coaster located at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania. At 5,600 feet in length, Steel Force is the eighth-longest steel coaster in the world as of 2024. Steel Force is situated 2½ miles northeast of East Texas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wescosville and Macungie.
Wescosville
Village
Wescosville is a census-designated place located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is located between Allentown and Trexlertown in Lower Macungie Township.
Macungie
Village
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Macungie is a borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States, its second oldest. As of the 2020 census, Macungie had a population of 3,257. Macungie is a suburb of Allentown, and part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census. Macungie is situated 2 miles south of East Texas.
Trexlertown
Village
Trexlertown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Upper Macungie Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,382. Trexlertown is situated 2½ miles west of East Texas.
East Texas
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Lower Macungie Township, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.5476° or 40° 32′ 51″ northLongitude
-75.5613° or 75° 33′ 41″ westElevation
446 feet (136 metres)Open location code
87G6GCXQ+2FOpenStreetMap ID
node 158570449OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From French to Irish—“East Texas” goes by many names.
- French: “East Texas”
- Irish: “East Texas”
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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 “East Texas”. Photo: Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC BY 2.0.