Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania Official logo of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania Welcome Mechanicsburg is positioned in Pennsylvania Mechanicsburg - Mechanicsburg Mechanicsburg is a borough in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States, 8 miles (13 km) west of Harrisburg.
Mechanicsburg is positioned in easterly Cumberland County at 40 12 44 N 77 00 22 W. It is in a rich agricultural region known as the Cumberland Valley, a broad zone between South Mountain and the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians.
Mechanicsburg is bordered by Silver Spring Township to the northwest, Monroe Township to the southwest, Upper Allen Township to the south, Lower Allen Township to the east, and Hampden Township to the northeast.
Pennsylvania Route 641 (Trindle Road) is the chief east-west street through the borough, dominant east 4 miles (6 km) to Camp Hill and west 10 miles (16 km) to Carlisle, the county seat.
Pennsylvania Route 114 leads north out of town on York Street and south on Market Street.
Interstate 76, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, passes just south of Mechanicsburg, with access to the southeast of town via Exit 236 (U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 2.41 square miles (6.25 km2), of which 1.1 acres (4,478 m2), or 0.07%, is water. Mechanicsburg was settled in 1806 and incorporated as a borough on April 12, 1828.
It was involved in a several early battles including the Battle of Williamsport in Maryland. During the Gettysburg Campaign Mechanicsburg was occupied by Confederate forces for two days. Mechanicsburg is home of Jubilee Day, the biggest and longest-running one-day street fair on the East Coast.
As of the 2010 census, the borough populace was 8,981.
As of the census of 2000, there were 9,042 citizens , 4,023 homeholds, and 2,466 families residing in the borough.
There were 4,024 homeholds, out of which 25.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 49.1% were married couples living together, 8.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 38.7% were non-families.
In the borough the populace was spread out, with 21.5% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 24.6% from 45 to 64, and 15.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the borough was $45,200, and the median income for a family was $54,228.
About 2.4% of families and 4.2% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 6.0% of those under age 18 and 5.0% of those age 65 or over.
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has its command posts in Hampden Township, Cumberland County, near Mechanicsburg. Mechanicsburg lies in the center of a county-wide transit crossroads, with Interstate 81, Interstate 76, Interstate 83, US Route 11, and US Route 15 passing in close adjacency to the borough.
The Appalachian Trail passes through Pennsylvania a several miles west of Mechanicsburg, in close-by Boiling Springs.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Mechanicsburg borough, Pennsylvania".
https://pacivilwartrails.com/stories/tales/occupation-of-mechanicsburg Occupation of Mechanicsburg 2015-05-16.
"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".
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