Witmer is an

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and

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(CDP) in

East Lampeter Township East Lampeter Township is a township in central Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 17,834. East Lampeter Township is one of the six suburbs that border the city of Lancaster, all sharing the sa ...

, Lancaster County,

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, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 492.

Geography

Witmer is in central Lancaster County, in the eastern part of East Lampeter Township. It is bordered to the south by Smoketown and to the northeast by Upper Leacock Township. It is north of

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and east of Lancaster, the

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. According to the

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, the Witmer CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.12%, are water. The community drains west to Stauffer Run and east to Mill Creek, both tributaries of the Conestoga River, flowing southwest to the Susquehanna.

References

{{authority control Census-designated places in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Census-designated places in Pennsylvania