Phoenixville
Phoenixville is a borough of 17,000 people in Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Philadelphia Metro Area. Phoenixville used to be a beaten-down mill town, but its downtown has been revitalized by 10 craft breweries and a distillery.- Type: Town with 15,800 residents
- Description: borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “Manovon”, “Phenixville”, “Phœnixville”, “Phoenixville, PA”, and “Phoenixville, Pennsylvania”
- Postal code: 19460
Places of Interest
Highlights include Colonial Theatre and Rapps Bridge.
Colonial Theatre
Movie theater
The Colonial Theatre is located in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, at 227 Bridge Street. Built in 1903, the "Colonial Opera House" became a preeminent venue for movies, traveling shows and live entertainment throughout the 20th century.
Rapps Bridge
Bridge
Black Rock Dam
Dam
The Black Rock Dam is a low head dam in the Schuylkill River. Originally constructed as a stone filled, timber crib dam in the early 19th century by the Schuylkill Navigation Company, the dam was one of dozens built to create a slack water pools for the Schuylkill Navigation System.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mont Clare and Royersford.
Mont Clare
Village
Mont Clare is a village in Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The village is located on the left bank of the Schuylkill River opposite Phoenixville and Chester County.
Royersford
Town
Royersford is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States, 32 miles northwest of Philadelphia, on the Schuylkill River. As of the 2020 census, Royersford had a population of 4,940. Royersford is situated 3½ miles north of Phoenixville.
Kimberton
Village
Kimberton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place that is located in East Pikeland Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The Zip Code is 19442. Kimberton is situated 3 miles west of Phoenixville.
Phoenixville
- Categories: borough of Pennsylvania and locality
- Location: Chester County, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.1339° or 40° 8′ 2″ north
Longitude
-75.5173° or 75° 31′ 2″ west
Population
15,800
Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US PXV
Open location code
87G64FMM+H3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Phoenixville” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فينيكسفيل”
- Basque: “Phoenixville”
- Bulgarian: “Финиксвил”
- Cebuano: “Phoenixville”
- Chechen: “Финиксвиль”
- Chinese: “Phoenixville”
- Chinese: “菲尼克斯維爾”
- Chinese: “菲尼克斯维尔”
- Czech: “Phoenixville”
- Dagbani: “Phoenixville”
- Danish: “Phoenixville”
- Dutch: “Phoenixville”
- Esperanto: “Phoenixville”
- French: “Phoenixville”
- German: “Phoenixville”
- Gilaki: “فينيکسویل (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “فينيکسویل”
- Haitian: “Phoenixville, Pennsilvani”
- Haitian: “Phoenixville”
- Hebrew: “פיניקסוויל”
- Italian: “Phoenixville”
- Japanese: “フェニックスヴィル”
- Japanese: “フェニックスビル (ペンシルベニア州)”
- Ladin: “Phoenixville”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Phoenixville”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Phoenixville (Pennsylvania)”
- Norwegian: “Phoenixville”
- Persian: “فنیکسویل”
- Polish: “Phoenixville”
- Portuguese: “Phoenixville”
- Russian: “Финиксвилл”
- Serbian: “Финиксвил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Phoenixville, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Phoenixville”
- Slovenian: “Phoenixville”
- Spanish: “Phoenixville (Pensilvania)”
- Spanish: “Phoenixville”
- Swedish: “Phoenixville”
- Tatar: “Финиксвиль”
- Ukrainian: “Фініксвіль”
- Urdu: “فینکس ول، پنسلوانیا”
- Uzbek: “Phoenixville”
- Uzbek: “Пҳоенихвилле”
- Vietnamese: “Phoenixville, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Phoenixville”
- Volapük: “Phoenixville”
- Welsh: “Phoenixville, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Phoenixville”
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