Hometown, Pennsylvania
Hometown, Pennsylvania | |
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Interactive map of Hometown, Pennsylvania | |
| Coordinates: 40°49′25″N 75°58′49″W / 40.82361°N 75.98028°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Schuylkill |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.00 sq mi (5.17 km2) |
| • Land | 2.00 sq mi (5.17 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0.00 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,129 ft (344 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 1,414 |
| • Density | 707.8/sq mi (273.27/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT |
| Postal code | 18252 |
| Area code | 570 |
| FIPS code | 42-35448 |
Hometown is a village (a neighborhood, and now a census-designated place (CDP) once having a post office) in Rush Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States that sits astride a crossing point between important transportation corridors. The population was 1,399 at the 2000 census, and excepting for the area near the east–west PA 54 running mostly parallel to the tracks of the Reading, Blue Mountain, and Northern Railroad — once the important east-west shortline Nesquehoning & Mahanoy Railroad — and the PA 54 junction with PA 309.