A report on Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area, Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, Hershey, Pennsylvania and Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Map of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania School Districts

Map of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania with municipal labels showing cities and boroughs (red), townships (white), and census-designated places (blue).

The original Parish House, now the Hummelstown Historical Society Library & Museum

Swatara Creek as seen from a park in Hummelstown, at the west end of town. The bridge supports U.S. 322.

The Pavilion at Herbert A. Schaffner Park

The playground at Schaffner Park, the former Borough Park.

Lower Dauphin High School, as taken from the Hershey Medical Center life lion

Hummelstown is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.

- Hummelstown, Pennsylvania

Hershey is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.

- Hershey, Pennsylvania

It is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area.

- Hummelstown, Pennsylvania

The community is located 14 mi east of Harrisburg and is part of the Harrisburg−Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area.

- Hershey, Pennsylvania

Dauphin County is included in the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area.

- Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

- Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area

It is centrally located between Harrisburg and Hershey, making it a common tourist drive-through.

- Hummelstown, Pennsylvania

To the west is the borough of Hummelstown.

- Hershey, Pennsylvania

Hershey

- Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area

Hummelstown

- Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area

Hummelstown

- Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

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- Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

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Postcard depicting Market Street in Downtown Harrisburg as it appeared in 1910. Trolley tracks are noticeable along the street.

Anti-nuclear protest at Harrisburg in 1979, following the Three Mile Island accident

Downtown with City Island in the foreground, as seen from the West Shore of the river (2015)

Astronaut's photograph of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, taken from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2007

Harrisburg, with the state capitol dome, as viewed from across the Susquehanna River in Wormleysburg

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania products treemap, 2020

Harrisburg's Market Square. Formerly the site of a market in Downtown Harrisburg, today it is a public transport hub and commercial center.

Pennsylvania Holocaust Memorial along Harrisburg's Riverfront Park/Capital Area Greenbelt

Harrisburg Market Square showing the Penn National Insurance Building (left) and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. City Government Center (right)

Dauphin County Courthouse, located along the Susquehanna River at Front and Market Streets in downtown Harrisburg

CAT bus at the Market Square Transfer Center in Harrisburg

Western span of the Walnut Street Bridge crossing the Susquehanna River, after it collapsed during the 1996 flood.

Harrisburg and vicinity, taken from the International Space Station on July 6, 2022; north is oriented towards the right.

Harrisburg (Pennsylvania Dutch: Harrisbarrig) is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and the county seat of Dauphin County.

It is the larger of the two anchor cities of the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area, also known as the Susquehanna Valley, which had a 2020 population of 591,712, making it the fourth most populous metropolitan area in Pennsylvania after the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Lehigh Valley metropolitan areas.

In the mid-to-late 20th century, the city's economic fortunes fluctuated with its major industries consisting of government, heavy manufacturing, agriculture, and food services (nearby Hershey is home of the chocolate maker, located just 10 mi east).

It was planned to link downtown Harrisburg with its eastern suburbs in Dauphin and Lebanon counties, including the areas of Hummelstown, Hershey and Lebanon, and the city of York in York County.