Morea, Pennsylvania
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Morea 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 Schuylkill County,
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, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. Before that, it was part of the New Boston-Morea CDP. Morea is in northern Schuylkill County, in the southwestern part of Mahanoy Township. It sits at above sea level in a high valley on top of Broad Mountain, which rises to an elevation over approximately to the east. Morea Road follows the northern edge of the community, leading northeast to New Boston and to Mahanoy City. To the southwest, Morea Road leads to Frackville.
Interstate 81 Interstate 81 (I-81) is a north–south (physically northeast–southwest) Interstate Highway in the eastern part of the United States. Its southern terminus is at Interstate 40, I-40 in Dandridge, Tennessee, Dandridge, Tennessee; its nort ...
passes just south of Morea, with access from exits near Frackville and Mahanoy City.


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Census-designated places in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Census-designated places in Pennsylvania {{SchuylkillCountyPA-geo-stub