New Boston is an
unincorporated community
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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,
Pennsylvania
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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.
New Boston is in northern Schuylkill County, in the south part of Mahanoy Township. It sits at around above sea level in a high valley on top of Broad Mountain, which rises to an elevation over to the south.
Morea Road runs along the northern edge of the community, leading northeast to Mahanoy City and southwest to ]Morea
Morea ( or ) was the name of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece during the Middle Ages and the early modern period. The name was used by the Principality of Achaea, the Byzantine province known as the Despotate of the Morea, by the O ...
and 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 south of New Boston, with access from exits near Frackville and Mahanoy City.
Demographics
References
Census-designated places in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Census-designated places in Pennsylvania
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