Shartlesville is a

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 Upper Bern Township,

Berks County Berks County ( Pennsylvania German: ''Barricks Kaundi'') is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 428,849. The county seat is Reading. The Schuylkill River, a tributary of the Delaware River ...

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, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 455 residents. Shartlesville, founded in 1765, was named for the Shartle family of farmers and innkeepers, and particularly for Peter Shartle, a pioneer settler and colonel during the Revolutionary War. It is located just south of

Interstate 78 Interstate 78 (I-78) is an east–west Interstate Highway in the Northeastern United States, running from I-81 northeast of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, through Allentown to western and northern New Jersey and terminating at the Holland Tunn ...

on the south side of Blue Mountain. It is drained by Wolf Creek south into the

Northkill Creek Northkill Creek is a stream primarily located in Berks County, Pennsylvania. It feeds into Tulpehocken Creek and covers part of the Schuylkill River and Delaware River watersheds. Northkill Creek and its tributaries are high quality trout strea ...

, a tributary of the Tulpehocken Creek. The village has a box post office with the ZIP code of 19554, but outlying areas have the Bernville ZIP code of 19506 or the

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ZIP code of 19526. It is served by the

Hamburg Area School District The Hamburg Area School District is a small, rural/suburban public school district serving parts of Berks County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses the communities of Shoemakersville, Perry Twp, Windsor Twp, Hamburg, Tilden Twp, Upper Bern Twp, ...

. The community was also the home of

Roadside America Roadside America was an indoor miniature village and railway covering . Created by Laurence Gieringer in 1935, it was first displayed to the public in his Hamburg, Pennsylvania, home. The miniature village's popularity increased after stories wer ...

, a large community of miniature trains and villages, located off Interstate 78, that was open to the public at that location from 1953 until 2020, when the attraction was closed, largely due to the

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. Just to the north of Shartlesville was located the Mountain Springs Arena, which hosted events including rodeos, concerts, horse shows, demolition derbies, tractor pulls, and an annual country fair. It is home to the Shartlesville Hotel, which suffered major roof damage in February 2009 during a

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, which also knocked down a

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and blew off roof tiles of the

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in eastern Reading.

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