Witmer, Pennsylvania | |
Settlement Type: | census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | Pennsylvania#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Witmer |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Pennsylvania##Location in the United States |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Pennsylvania |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Lancaster |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | East Lampeter |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 3.22 |
Area Land Km2: | 3.22 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.0 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 492 |
Population Density Km2: | 152.8 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 400 |
Coordinates: | 40.0481°N -76.2114°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 17585 |
Area Code: | 717 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 42-85968 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 1191637 |
Witmer is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 492.[2]
Witmer is in central Lancaster County, in the eastern part of East Lampeter Township. It is bordered to the south by Smoketown and to the northeast by Upper Leacock Township. It is 0.6miles north of Pennsylvania Route 340 and 6miles east of Lancaster, the county seat.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Witmer CDP has a total area of 3.2sqkm, of which 3811order=flipNaNorder=flip, or 0.12%, are water.[1] The community drains west to Stauffer Run and east to Mill Creek, both tributaries of the Conestoga River, flowing southwest to the Susquehanna.