Georgetown is an

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and

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(CDP) in Bart Township, Lancaster County,

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, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 1,022. Georgetown has a post office for P.O. boxes that is called Bart and has the ZIP code of 17503. Otherwise, the CDP is divided into three ZIP code areas for more distant communities. Half of the small community of Nickel Mines, the site of the 2006 Amish school shooting, is within the Georgetown CDP. The alleged shooter, Charles Carl Roberts IV, was a resident of Georgetown, where he lived with his wife and children.

Geography

Georgetown is located in southern Lancaster County in northern Bart Township, an area with a large concentration of

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residents. It is about west of

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. The main roads running through the village are Georgetown Road (

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) and the Christiana Pike ( PA Route 372). Route 896 leads northwest to Strasburg and southeast to

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, while Route 372 leads east to Christiana and southwest to

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. According to the

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, the Georgetown CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.17%, are water. The village of Nickel Mines is along the northern border of the CDP, and the village of Green Tree is on the southern border. Nickel Mines Run, a headwaters of the West Branch of

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, flows southward through the eastern part of the CDP. The entire community, via Octoraro Creek, is part of the

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watershed.

Demographics

References

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