Cherryville is a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), 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 counte ...
in
Lehigh Township in
Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Northampton County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 312,951. Its county seat is Easton. The county was formed in 1752 from parts of Bucks County. Its namesake was the c ...
, United States. Its population was 1,618 as of the
2020 U.S. census.
The village is located approximately east of
Walnutport, north of
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and northwest of
Northampton
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. It is situated along
Pennsylvania Route 248, between the villages of Indianland and Pennsville. The
ZIP Code is 18035.
It is part of the
Lehigh Valley
The Lehigh Valley () is a geography, geographic and urban area, metropolitan region formed by the Lehigh River in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Lehigh and Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Northampton counties in eastern Pennsylvania. It is a co ...
metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous
metropolitan area
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in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
History
The village was founded around 1804, making it one of the township's earliest settlements. The name Cherryville is believed to have been taken from a road called Cherry Row Lane which was bordered by 100 cherry trees. A post office was established here in 1816. By the 1870s, the village included 25 houses, two carriage shops, two blacksmith shops, a wheel shop, a tailor, and four stores.
Notable people
*
Samuel Henry Kress, founder of
S. H. Kress & Co. and art collector
Notes
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Census-designated places in Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Census-designated places in Pennsylvania