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Royersford is located at (40.185239, -75.537648 The borough lies on the northern banks of the Schuylkill River, and is considered a suburb of Philadelphia.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km 2), of which 0.8 square miles (2.1 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2) (4.88%) is water.
Royersford was created from its southeastern corner in 1879. Limerick Township is a member of the Spring-Ford Area School District. The township grew from a 1990 population of 6,600 to 18,074 as of the 2010 census. On July 27, 1994, a deadly tornado struck parts of Limerick Township, killing an infant and her parents.
Montgomery County, colloquially referred to as Montco, [1] is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population of the county was 856,553, making it the third-most populous county in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia and Allegheny counties, also the most populous county in Pennsylvania without a major city. [2]
Spring City is a member of the Spring-Ford Area School District. It is situated along the Schuylkill River , which divides Chester and Montgomery counties. Directly across the river is the borough of Royersford .
The Spring-Ford Area School District is a K-12 school district based in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States, which expands into Chester County. The system is made up of Limerick Township and Upper Providence Township , along with the boroughs of Royersford and Spring City .
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted in red. Pennsylvania is a state located in the Northeastern United States.As of the 2020 U.S. census, Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state with 13,002,700 inhabitants [1] and the 32nd-largest by land area spanning 44,742.70 square miles (115,883.1 km 2) of land. [2]
There is also one private parochial school, Holy Cross Regional Catholic School, which serves grades K-8. Holy Cross was formed in 2012 by the merger of St. Eleanor in Collegeville and Sacred Heart in Royersford. [18] Pope John Paul II High School in Royersford is the area Catholic high school. [19]
The first person to settle in this area was Edward Lane, who bought 2,500 acres of land from William Penn in 1701. Edward and his wife established the Episcopal church in Lower Providence. In 1717, John Jacob Schrack came to the township from Germany. Schrack was able to convince Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg to relocate to this area. [3]