Falmouth, Pennsylvania | |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | Pennsylvania#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Falmouth |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Pennsylvania##Location in the United States |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Pennsylvania |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Lancaster |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Conoy |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 2.56 |
Area Land Km2: | 2.55 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 397 |
Population Density Km2: | 155.45 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 360 |
Coordinates: | 40.1294°N -76.7139°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 42-25168 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 1174610 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.99 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 0.99 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 402.64 |
Falmouth is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Conoy Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 420, but the 2020 census shows that the population has decreased to 397.[3] [4]
Falmouth is in the northwestern corner of Lancaster County, at the confluence of Conewago Creek with the Susquehanna River. It is bordered to the northwest, across Conewago Creek, by Londonderry Township in Dauphin County. To the southwest, across the Susquehanna River, is the borough of York Haven in York County. Falmouth is 2miles south of the closed Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station.
Pennsylvania Route 441 (River Road) passes through Falmouth, leading north (up the Susquehanna) 5miles to Middletown and southeast (downriver) 4miles to Bainbridge and to Columbia. Lancaster, the county seat, is southeast of Falmouth.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Falmouth CDP has a total area of 2.6sqkm, of which 1599order=flipNaNorder=flip, or 0.06%, is water.[5]