Pen Mar is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
and
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) that is located in
Washington Township of
Franklin County,
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...
, United States. It is one of the
border towns in the United States with a portmanteau name. It is situated on the
Mason–Dixon line
The Mason–Dixon line, sometimes referred to as Mason and Dixon's Line, is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia. It was Surveying, surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason ...
, bordered to the south by the community of
Pen Mar in
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It borders the states of Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, and Delaware to its east ...
.
History
The community's name is a portmanteau of "Pennsylvania" and "Maryland".
Geography
Pen Mar is located in southeastern Franklin County, on the western slope of
South Mountain.
Pennsylvania Route 550 is the main road through the community, leading northwest down the mountain to
Rouzerville.
Waynesboro is northwest of Pen Mar, and the site of the former
Fort Ritchie
Fort Ritchie in Cascade, Maryland was a military installation southwest of Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania and southeast of Waynesboro in the area of South Mountain. Following the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission, it closed in ...
in Maryland is to the southeast.
Demographics
As of the
2020 census, the population of Pen Mar was 947.
References
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Census-designated places in Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Census-designated places in Pennsylvania