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Welcome to Highmount ...

Highmount is located in York County<1>.

Highmount is 570 feet [174 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Highmount: 717 & 223<3>

Communities Also Named Highmount ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Highmount - it's located in New York.

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

Communities near Highmount ...

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

  • Lancaster
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • York
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • York is located in York County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for York
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 43,907 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for York <4>
  • Elizabethtown
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Columbia
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Lititz
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Lititz is located in Lancaster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lititz
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,022 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lititz <4>
  • Middletown
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Millersville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Mount Joy
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Palmyra
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Red Lion
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)

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 Highmount. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Highmount.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Highmount. 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 Highmount.

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Highmount ...

Looking for more information about Highmount? 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 Highmount, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Highmount.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties, including York, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Highmount - 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 Highmount area will be assigned with one of these codes: 717 or 223. As a result, placing a call in the Highmount 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.