Cross Keys is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

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 ...

(CDP) in

Blair County Blair County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 122,822. Its county seat is Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Holli ...

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, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.

Geography

The CDP is in western Blair County, in the eastern part of Allegheny Township. It is bordered to the west by

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/ Pennsylvania Route 764, to the south by the US-22/

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interchange, and to the east by the Altoona–

Hollidaysburg Hollidaysburg is a borough in and the county seat of Blair County in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located on the Juniata River, south of Altoona and is part of the Altoona, Pennsylvania, metropolitan statistical area. In 1900 ...

line of the

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. Altoona is to the north, Duncansville is to the south, and Hollidaysburg is to the southeast. Cross Keys is in the valley of Beaverdam Branch, which flows southeastward to join the Frankstown Branch of the

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east of Hollidaysburg.

Demographics

Education

The school district is

Hollidaysburg Area School District The Hollidaysburg Area School District is a midsized, suburban public school district which is based in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. It serves the boroughs of Duncansville, Hollidaysburg, and Newry, and the townships of Allegheny, Blair, Fr ...

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References

Census-designated places in Blair County, Pennsylvania Census-designated places in Pennsylvania {{BlairCountyPA-geo-stub