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Carlisle is a borough in and the county seat of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. [3] Carlisle is located within the Cumberland Valley , a highly productive agricultural region. As of the 2020 census , the borough population was 20,118; [ 4 ] including suburbs in the neighboring townships, 37,695 live in the Carlisle urban cluster.
Carlisle was, from 1835 to 1974, a local government district in the northwest of England, coterminate with Carlisle. [1] In 1835, following the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, Carlisle was constituted a municipal borough of Cumberland, but was promoted to county borough status in 1914, within its boundaries taking over the functions of Cumberland County Council.
Carlisle is also home to Dickinson College, established in 1773, and the Penn State Dickinson School of Law. The United States Army War College is a United States Army school located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania , on the 500 acres (2.0 km 2 ) campus of the historic Carlisle Barracks , a military post dating back to the 1770s.
This is a list of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania.There are currently 956 municipalities classified as boroughs and one classified as a town in Pennsylvania.Unlike other forms of municipalities in Pennsylvania, boroughs and towns are not classified according to population.
Carlisle Historic District is a national historic district located at Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 1,011 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Carlisle. Most of the contributing buildings date to the mid- to ...
The city's boundaries have changed several times since 1835, most notably between 1974 and 2023, when under the Local Government Act 1972 the city and county borough and the Border Rural District were abolished and new enlarged City of Carlisle non-metropolitan district was created within the newly formed administrative county of Cumbria.
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]
Letort Run stream. The Letort Spring Run Nature Trail (LSRNT) is a rail trail in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.The trail stretches between Carlisle Borough's Letort Park [1] and a trailhead approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south at South Spring Garden Street.