Shippensburg
Shippensburg is a borough in Cumberland and Franklin counties in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Settled in 1730, Shippensburg lies in the Cumberland Valley, 41 miles southwest of Harrisburg, and is part of the Harrisburg metropolitan area.
Photo: Cgboeree, Public domain.- Type: Town with 5,490 residents
- Description: borough of Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “Shippensburg, PA” and “Shippensburg, Pennsylvania”
- Postal code: 17257
Places of Interest
Highlights: Seth Grove Stadium.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mainsville and Mowersville.
Mainsville
Hamlet
Mainsville is an unincorporated community… Mainsville is situated 2½ miles south of Shippensburg.
Mowersville
Hamlet
Mowersville is an unincorporated community… Mowersville is situated 5 miles northwest of Shippensburg.
Green Village
Hamlet
Green Village is an unincorporated community in Franklin County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Green Village is situated 6 miles southwest of Shippensburg.
Shippensburg
- Categories: borough of Pennsylvania and locality
- Location: Borough of Shippensburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.05072° or 40° 3′ 3″ north
Longitude
-77.52055° or 77° 31′ 14″ west
Population
5,490
Elevation
656 feet (200 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US SSG
Open location code
87G43F2H+7Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Shippensburg” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيبنسبورغ”
- Basque: “Shippensburg”
- Belarusian: “Шыпенсберг”
- Catalan: “Shippensburg”
- Cebuano: “Shippensburg”
- Chechen: “Шиппенсбург”
- Chinese: “希彭斯堡 (賓夕法尼亞州)”
- Chinese: “希彭斯堡”
- Dutch: “Shippensburg”
- French: “Shippensburg”
- German: “Shippensburg”
- Gilaki: “شیپنزبرگ (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “شیپنزبرگ”
- Haitian: “Shippensburg, Pennsilvani”
- Haitian: “Shippensburg”
- Hebrew: “שיפנסבורג”
- Italian: “Shippensburg”
- Japanese: “シッペンスバーグ”
- Ladin: “Shippensburg”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shippensburg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shippensburg (Pennsylvania)”
- Norwegian: “Shippensburg”
- Portuguese: “Shippensburg”
- Russian: “Шиппенсберг”
- Russian: “Шиппенсбург”
- Serbian: “Shippensburg, Pennsylvania”
- Serbian: “Shippensburg”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shippensburg, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shippensburg”
- Spanish: “Shippensburg”
- Tatar: “Шиппенсбург”
- Ukrainian: “Шиппенсбург”
- Urdu: “شپنز برگ، پنسلوانیا”
- Uzbek: “Shippensburg”
- Vietnamese: “Shippensburg, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Shippensburg”
- Volapük: “Shippensburg”
- Welsh: “Shippensburg, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Shippensburg”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Tusculum and Middle Spring.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Christ United Methodist Church and Shippensburg Post Office.
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Worth a closer look: Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
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