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Welcome to Hunterstown ...

Hunterstown is located in Adams County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Hunterstown, you might consider that their post office opened in 1826.

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

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

Area Codes for Hunterstown: 717 & 223<3>

Communities Also Named Hunterstown ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Hunterstown - it's located in Quebec.

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

Communities near Hunterstown ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Hunterstown ...

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

Adding Hunterstown to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Hunterstown 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 (so far) for Hunterstown was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Hunterstown post office opened in 1826. The Hunterstown post office closed in 1918.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Hunterstown.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties, including Adams, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Hunterstown - 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 Hunterstown area will be assigned with one of these codes: 717 or 223. As a result, placing a call in the Hunterstown 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>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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