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Pleasant Corners, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

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Pleasant Corners, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
PA 309 at PA 100 in Pleasant Corners
PA 309 at PA 100 in Pleasant Corners
Pleasant Corners is located in Pennsylvania
Pleasant Corners
Pleasant Corners
Location of Pleasant Corners in Pennsylvania
Pleasant Corners is located in the United States
Pleasant Corners
Pleasant Corners
Pleasant Corners (the United States)
Coordinates: 40°41′0″N 75°41′26″W / 40.68333°N 75.69056°W / 40.68333; -75.69056
Country United States
State Pennsylvania
CountyLehigh
TownshipHeidelberg
Elevation
173 m (568 ft)
Population
 • Metro
865,310 (US: 68th)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code(s)610 and 484
GNIS feature ID1199318[1]

Pleasant Corners is an unincorporated community in Heidelberg Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. Pleasant Corners is located at the intersection of state routes 100 and 309 between New Tripoli and Schnecksville. Pleasant Corners is part of the Lehigh Valley, which has a population of 861,899 and is the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.

Jacob Holben erected a foundry in 1850 and the settlement was named Holbensville in his honor. In 1857, it was renamed Pleasant Corners.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Pleasant Corners". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ Miller, Benjamin LeRoy (1941). "Toponymy" (PDF). Geology of Lehigh and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania. 4. Vol. 1. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Geological Survey. p. 78. Pleasant Corner(s), Heidelberg Township; originally named Holben(s)ville for Jacob Holben who erected a foundry there in 1850. It was changed to its present name by Owen Hunsicker, Daniel Rex and Abraham Peter because of its desirable location, about 1857. The first post office there, established in 1873, was called Jordan Post Office.


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