Mount Eagle is an unincorporated community and
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...
in
Howard Township,
Centre County
Centre County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 158,172. Its county seat is Bellefonte. Centre County comprises the State College, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
The lands ...
,
Pennsylvania
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, United States. As of the
2010 census, the population was 103.
It is located near the southern corner of Howard Township along Old Route 220, to the southeast of
Bald Eagle Creek where it flows into Foster J. Sayers Lake. The long ridge of
Bald Eagle Mountain
Bald Eagle Mountain – once known locally as Muncy Mountain – is a stratigraphic ridge in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians of central Pennsylvania, United States, running east of the Allegheny Front and northwest of Mount Nittany. It lies alon ...
is to the southeast of the town. Old Route 220 dead-ends a short distance to the northeast, where its former route is now inundated by the lake, so the only road access is to the southwest through
Boggs Township. The borough of
Howard
Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probabl ...
is to the northeast but by road.
Demographics
References
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Census-designated places in Centre County, Pennsylvania
Census-designated places in Pennsylvania