Swatara
Swatara is an unincorporated community in Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, located near Hershey in the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area.- Type: Suburb with 22,300 residents
- Description: human settlement in United States of America
- Also known as: “Swatara, Derry Township, Pennsylvania” and “Swatara, PA”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Paxtang Park and Bishop McDevitt High School.
Paxtang Park
Park
Paxtang Park is a hiking and mountain biking park in East Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Paxtang, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the Capital Area Greenbelt. Paxtang Park is situated 2 miles northwest of Swatara.
Bishop McDevitt High School
School
Bishop McDevitt High School is a private, Roman Catholic, co-educational high school in Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1918 as "Catholic High School" in Harrisburg and renamed in 1957 to honor the memory of the Most Reverend Philip R. Bishop McDevitt High School is situated 2 miles north of Swatara.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oberlin and Lawnton.
Oberlin
Village
Photo: Concord, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oberlin is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community was part of the census-designated place of Bressler-Enhaut-Oberlin, before it was split into three separate CDPs for the 2010 census.
Lawnton
Village
Lawnton is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,813 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Oberlin Gardens
Neighborhood
Oberlin Gardens is an unincorporated community in Swatara Township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area.
Swatara
- Categories: unincorporated community and locality
- Location: Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.24346° or 40° 14′ 37″ northLongitude
-76.79675° or 76° 47′ 48″ westPopulation
22,300Elevation
417 feet (127 metres)Open location code
87G566V3+98OpenStreetMap ID
node 158632637OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
5214996Wikidata ID
Q18157163
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In Other Languages
“Swatara” goes by many names.
- French: “Swatara”
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