Stevens, Pennsylvania | |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | Pennsylvania#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Stevens |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
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: | Townships |
Subdivision Name3: | West Cocalico, East Cocalico |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 4.03 |
Area Land Km2: | 4.03 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.0 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 612 |
Population Density Km2: | 151.8 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 382 |
Coordinates: | 40.2161°N -76.1556°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 17578 |
Area Code: | 717 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 42-74040 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 1188622 |
Stevens is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 612.[2] The Stevens post office has ZIP code 17578.
The community was named in honor of Thaddeus Stevens. It was originally also called "Reamstown Station", due to its being the closest railroad station to the much larger community of Reamstown. By 1899, the community was just referred to as Stevens P.O.[3]
The Schoeneck and Reamstown Elementary Schools, in the Cocalico School District, have Stevens addresses, as do several churches and the Mount Airy Kennels.
Stevens is in northern Lancaster County, on the border between East and West Cocalico townships. The township boundary follows North Line Road and South Line Road, which crosses Main Street at the center of town. Stevens is bordered to the north by the borough of Denver and to the south by Ephrata Township. The borough of Ephrata is 3miles to the southwest, and Lancaster, the county seat, is southwest of Stevens.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Stevens CDP has a total area of 4sqkm, of which 246order=flipNaNorder=flip, or 0.01%, are water.[1] The community drains south to Cocalico Creek, a south-flowing tributary of the Conestoga River, which leads to the Susquehanna.