Orwigsburg
Orwigsburg is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The borough was named for its founder, Peter Orwig, in 1796. Orwigsburg was the original county seat until the seat was moved to Pottsville in 1851.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,990 residents
- Description: borough in southern Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “Orwigsburg, PA” and “Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania”
- Postal code: 17961
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Deer Lake and Auburn.
Deer Lake
Village
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Deer Lake is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The population was 670 at the 2020 census. The mayor of the borough is Larry Kozlowski. Deer Lake is situated 3 miles southeast of Orwigsburg.
Auburn
Village
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Auburn is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 663 at the 2020 census. Auburn is situated 4 miles south of Orwigsburg.
Schuylkill Haven
Village
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Schuylkill Haven is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The borough's population was 5,253 as of the 2020 census. Schuylkill Haven is situated along the Schuylkill River, for which it is named. Schuylkill Haven is situated 4 miles southwest of Orwigsburg.
Orwigsburg
- Categories: borough of Pennsylvania and locality
- Location: Borough of Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.65486° or 40° 39′ 18″ northLongitude
-76.10073° or 76° 6′ 3″ westPopulation
2,990Elevation
623 feet (190 metres)United Nations Location Code
US OWPOpen location code
87G5MV3X+WPOpenStreetMap ID
node 158389101OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Orwigsburg” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Orwigsburg”
- Cebuano: “Orwigsburg”
- Chechen: “Орвигсбург”
- Chinese: “Orwigsburg”
- Dutch: “Orwigsburg”
- French: “Orwigsburg”
- German: “Orwigsburg”
- Gilaki: “اورویگسبرگ (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “اورویگسبرگ”
- Haitian: “Orwigsburg, Pennsilvani”
- Haitian: “Orwigsburg”
- Italian: “Orwigsburg”
- Ladin: “Orwigsburg”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Orwigsburg”
- Portuguese: “Orwigsburg”
- Serbian: “Орвигсберг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Orwigsburg”
- Spanish: “Orwigsburg”
- Tatar: “Орвигсбург”
- Ukrainian: “Орвігсбург”
- Uzbek: “Orwigsburg”
- Uzbek: “Орwигсбург”
- Vietnamese: “Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Orwigsburg”
- Volapük: “Orwigsburg”
- Welsh: “Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Orwigsburg”
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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 “Orwigsburg”. Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.