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Welcome to Beartown ...

Beartown is located in Lancaster County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Beartown, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1832.

Beartown is 550 feet [168 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Beartown lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Beartown: 717 & 223<3>

Communities Also Named Beartown ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Pennsylvania communities named Beartown: This one is located in Lancaster County and the other is located in Franklin County.

Beyond Pennsylvania, there are 14 communities that are also named Beartown - they are located in Colorado (2), Kentucky, Montana, New York (3), Ohio (2), Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Beartown.

Communities near Beartown ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Beartown.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Beartown. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Beartown.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Beartown. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Beartown.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Beartown. See our Newspapers Page for Beartown.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Beartown ...

Looking for more information about Beartown? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Beartown, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Beartown.

Adding Beartown to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Beartown in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Beartown was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Beartown post office opened in 1832.

We also found Beartown in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Beartown.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties, including Lancaster, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Beartown - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 717 code has been Overlayed with the 223 area code. New phone numbers in the Beartown area will be assigned with one of these codes: 717 or 223. As a result, placing a call in the Beartown area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/