West Point is an

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in Upper Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County,

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, United States. Zacharias Creek starts here and flows west into the Skippack Creek, a tributary of the

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. Merck & Co. has a facility in West Point, which is split between the Lansdale and

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post offices with the ZIP codes of 19446 and 19454, respectively

It is part of the North Penn Valley region that is centered on the borough of Lansdale.

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Unincorporated communities in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania {{MontgomeryCountyPA-geo-stub