Map of Maytown CDP, Pennsylvania

Maytown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,098 at the 2020 census.

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History

Maytown is noted as the birthplace of 19th-century politician Simon Cameron, who served in the Cabinet of President Abraham Lincoln.

The Grove Mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. William H. Strayer, born in Maytown in 1847, earned the Congressional Medal of Honor on May 22, 1872, along with William F. Cody and two others.

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Geography

Maytown is located in western Lancaster County, in the western part of East Donegal Township. Pennsylvania Route 743 (Maytown Road / South River Street) passes through the center of town, leading north 6 miles (10 km) to Elizabethtown and south 3 miles (5 km) to Marietta. Pennsylvania Route 441 forms part of the southern edge of the Maytown CDP; it leads northwest 14 miles (23 km) to Middletown and southeast 6 miles (10 km) to Columbia. Lancaster, the county seat, is 15 miles (24 km) east of Maytown via Routes 441 and 23.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Maytown has a total area of 3.7 square miles (9.5 km), of which 0.7 acres (2,999 m), or 0.03%, are water. The community drains east and west to unnamed direct tributaries of the Susquehanna River.

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