Eckville
Eckville is an unincorporated community in far northern Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The town is located in an agricultural zone at the base of Blue Mountain, in northwestern Albany Township.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement in Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Also known as: “Eckville, PA” and “Eckville, Pennsylvania”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hawk Mountain and Schaumboch’s Tavern.
Hawk Mountain
Peak
Photo: Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hawk Mountain is a mountain ridge, part of the Blue Mountain Ridge in the Appalachian Mountain chain, located in central-eastern Pennsylvania near Reading and Allentown. Hawk Mountain is situated 1½ miles northwest of Eckville.
Schaumboch’s Tavern
House
Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
Schaumboch's Tavern is an historic, American inn and tavern building that is located in the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary at Albany Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rauschs and Drehersville.
Rauschs
Hamlet
Rauschs is an unincorporated community and coal town in East Brunswick Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was also called Rausch and is located along the east side of the Little Schuylkill River and on the north foot of Blue Mountain. Rauschs is situated 3 miles northwest of Eckville.
Drehersville
Hamlet
Drehersville is an unincorporated community on the Little Schuylkill River and the northwestern foot of Blue Mountain in East Brunswick Township and West Brunswick Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Drehersville is situated 3½ miles west of Eckville.
Quaker City
Hamlet
Quaker City is an unincorporated community in Albany Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. Quaker City is located along Quaker City Road at the base of Blue Mountain. Quaker City is situated 4½ miles northeast of Eckville.
Eckville
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Albany Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.63301° or 40° 37′ 59″ northLongitude
-75.95273° or 75° 57′ 10″ westElevation
525 feet (160 metres)Open location code
87G6J2MW+6WOpenStreetMap ID
node 158626973OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Turkish—“Eckville” goes by many names.
- French: “Eckville”
- Irish: “Eckville”
- Turkish: “Eckville”
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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 “Eckville”. Photo: Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC BY 2.0.