Gettysburg, PA
Adams County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 103,852. Its county seat is Gettysburg. The county was created on January 22, 1800, from part of York County, and was named for John Adams, the second President of the United States.- Type: Economic region with 100,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan area in Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “23900”, “Gettysburg metro area”, “Gettysburg metropolitan area”, “Gettysburg metropolitan statistical area”, “Gettysburg, PA Metro Area”, “Gettysburg, PA metropolitan area”, “Gettysburg, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area”, and “Gettysburg, PA MSA”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pennsylvania Hall.
Pennsylvania Hall
College building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Pennsylvania Hall is the Gettysburg College central administrative building and the college's oldest building. Designed in 1835 by John Cresson Trautwine, it was built in 1838 as a "temple-style edifice with four columns in the portico". Pennsylvania Hall is situated 2½ miles south of Gettysburg, PA.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gettysburg and Hunterstown.
Gettysburg
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gettysburg, in Adams County in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, goes down in history as the battlefield in the Civil War where, despite terrible tragedy and loss of life, there was hope for the Union.
Hunterstown
Hamlet
Hunterstown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Straban Township, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 506. Hunterstown is situated 3 miles east of Gettysburg, PA.
Table Rock
Hamlet
Table Rock is a populated place and census-designated place north of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, in Adams County, that was the site of an 1885 Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad station. As of the 2020 census the population was 133. Table Rock is situated 3 miles north of Gettysburg, PA.
Gettysburg, PA
- Category: metropolitan statistical area
- Location: Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.8715° or 39° 52′ 17″ northLongitude
-77.2179° or 77° 13′ 4″ westPopulation
100,000Elevation
505 feet (154 metres)Open location code
87F4VQCJ+HRGeoNames ID
12213129Wikidata ID
Q123332714
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Gettysburg, PA” goes by many names.
- French: “région métropolitaine de Gettysburg”
- French: “Région métropolitaine de Gettysburg”
- German: “Metropolregion Gettysburg”
- Slovenian: “metropolitansko območje Gettysburg”
- Spanish: “area metropolitana de Gettysburg”
- Spanish: “área metropolitana de Gettysburg”
- Spanish: “Área metropolitana de Gettysburg”
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