Franks Corner 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 ...
located within
East Allen Township in
Northampton County,
Pennsylvania
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. 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 United States as of the 2020 census.
It was named for a CEO of the Keystone Cement Company which lies just east of the village. The streets of the Spring Lake Village neighborhood are named after prominent figures in Keystone Cement history and references to cement production.
Geography
Franks Corner is located at the intersection between Airport Road (
Pennsylvania Route 987) and North Bath Boulevard (
Pennsylvania Route 329). From this junction, Pennsylvania Route 987 and Pennsylvania Route 329 continue
concurrently eastward.
Franks Corner is home to two small communities: Spring Lake Village, on Airport Road, and Jacksonville, on Nor-Bath Boulevard.
References
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Unincorporated communities in Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania