Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania Camp Hill is positioned in Pennsylvania Camp Hill - Camp Hill Camp Hill is a borough in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA, 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Harrisburg.
The populace was 7,888 at the 2010 census. There are many large corporations based in close-by East Pennsboro Township and Wormleysburg that use the Camp Hill postal address, including the Rite Aid Corporation, Harsco Corporation, and Gannett Fleming.
Camp Hill is positioned in easterly Cumberland County at 40 14 28 N 76 55 34 W (40.241089, -76.926202). It is bordered to the east by the borough of Lemoyne, to the south by the Lower Allen census-designated place inside Lower Allen Township, to the west by Hampden Township, and to the north by East Pennsboro Township.
Downtown Harrisburg, the state capital, is 3 miles (5 km) northeast of the center of Camp Hill, via either the Market Street Bridge or the M.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Camp Hill has a total region of 2.1 square miles (5.5 km2), all of it land. The name "Camp Hill" is believed to stem from a split in the congregation of a Peace Church, positioned west of the current borough.
One faction of the church began meeting outdoors, on a hill.
Prior to the Civil War, the region was known locally as White Hill, and was a stop along the Cumberland Valley Railroad between Harrisburg and Carlisle.
During the Civil War, the Battle of Sporting Hill became the northernmost engagement of the Gettysburg Campaign, which took place at Camp Hill in late June 1863.
Camp Hill was incorporated as a borough on November 10, 1885, from East Pennsboro Township. Holy Spirit Hospital, a 326-bed non-profit Catholic improve hospital is positioned in Camp Hill and serves as the major facility for its related community system. The hospital was established in 1963 and is sponsored by the Sisters of Christian Charity. State Correctional Institution - Camp Hill is positioned in close-by Lower Allen Township, and the township formerly had the command posts of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Rite Aid has its nationwide headquarters in close-by East Pennsboro Township and uses a Camp Hill postal address. The Warrell Corporation is a confectionery manufacturing business based in Camp Hill.
Ames True Temper is a multinational corporation headquartered in Camp Hill.
The borough of Camp Hill is served by the Camp Hill School District which provides education beginning with half-day kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Camp Hill High School serves students from the borough school district.
Cedar Cliff High School, part of the West Shore School District, is positioned in close-by Lower Allen Township and uses a Camp Hill postal address.
Within the Camp Hill postal address are also students from the Cumberland Valley School District, with Cumberland Valley High School positioned in close-by Silver Spring Township.
In Harry Turtledove's American Civil War alternate histories series of novels, unofficially titled Southern Victory", Camp Hill is an meaningful macguffin, being the site of the definitive Confederate victory in 1862, helping to end the War of Secession with the CSA's independence.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Camp Hill borough, Pennsylvania".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
Holy Spirit Facts Holy Spirit Health System, accessed February 4, 2010.
About Holy Spirit Hospital, Holy Spirit Health System, accessed February 4, 2010.
"Lower Allen township, Pennsylvania." "Directions to SCI Camp Hill." Box 598, Camp Hill, PA 17001-0598" "Contact our Home Office 30 Hunter Lane Camp Hill, PA 17011." Camp Hill travel guide from Wikivoyage Borough of Camp Hill official website Municipalities and communities of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States Camp Hill Carlisle Lemoyne Mechanicsburg Mount Holly Springs New Cumberland Newburg Newville Shippensburg Shiremanstown Wormleysburg Cooke Dickinson East Pennsboro Hampden Hopewell Lower Allen Lower Frankford Lower Mifflin Middlesex Monroe North Middleton North Newton Penn Shippensburg Silver Spring South Middleton South Newton Southampton Upper Allen Upper Frankford Upper Mifflin West Pennsboro This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties
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