Tacony
Tacony is a historic neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, United States, approximately 8 miles from downtown Philadelphia. It is bounded by the east side of Frankford Avenue on the northwest, the south side of Cottman Avenue on the northeast, the north side of Robbins Street on the southwest, and the Delaware River and Interstate 95 on the southeast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Aerolin55, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Neighborhood with 17,800 residents
- Description: human settlement in Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Also known as: “Tacony, Philadelphia” and “Tekony”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Samaria Iglesia Evangelica and Tacony Baptist Church.
Samaria Iglesia Evangelica
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Samaria Iglesia Evangelica is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mayfair and Wissinoming.
Mayfair
Neighborhood
Photo: Coemgenus, Public domain.
Mayfair is a working class neighborhood in lower Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, centered on the intersection of Cottman and Frankford Avenues.
Wissinoming
Neighborhood
Wissinoming is a neighborhood in the Near Northeast section of Philadelphia, United States. It was the site of locomotive builder Matthias Baldwin's estate "Wissinoming", which was located near Tacony and Van Kirk Streets.
Holmesburg
Neighborhood
Photo: Coemgenus, Public domain.
Holmesburg began as a Village within Lower Dublin Township, Pennsylvania. It is now a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Tacony
- Category: locality
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.03122° or 40° 1′ 52″ northLongitude
-75.04434° or 75° 2′ 40″ westPopulation
17,800Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)Open location code
87G62XJ4+F7OpenStreetMap ID
node 158486080OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
5215118Wikidata ID
Q7674051
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Tacony” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تاكوني”
- Dutch: “Tacony”
- French: “Tacony”
- South Azerbaijani: “تاکونی، فیلئیدلفیا”
- Turkish: “Tacony”
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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 “Tacony”. Photo: Aerolin55, CC BY-SA 3.0.