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About Palmer
Township in Pennsylvania, USPalmer Township is a township in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population of Palmer Township was 22,317 at the 2020 census. It is the eight-largest municipality in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census. Settled in 1740, Palmer Township is located along the Lehigh River, a 109-mile-long (175 km) tributary of the Delaware River. It is located 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Allentown, 51 miles (82 km) north of Philadelphia, and 66 miles (106 km) west of New York City. Palmer Township is a part of the Greater Easton area, which includes the city of Easton, th…
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