Palmdale, Pennsylvania | |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Mapsize: | 300px |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Pennsylvania |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Dauphin |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Derry |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 3.85 |
Area Land Km2: | 3.84 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 1308 |
Population Density Km2: | 340.19 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 433 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
Postal Code: | 17033 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 42-57648 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 1193079 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 1.49 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 1.49 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 880.81 |
Palmdale is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 1,308.[3] Palmdale is in the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area.
Palmdale is in eastern Derry Township and is bordered to the north, west, and south by the community of Hershey. The eastern border of Palmdale is with the borough of Palmyra in Lebanon County.
U.S. Route 422 (E. Chocolate Avenue) is the main road through Palmdale. To the east it leads to Lebanon and to Reading, while to the west it leads via US 322 to Harrisburg.