Poyntelle, Pennsylvania
| Poyntelle, Pennsylvania | |
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| Village of Poyntelle | |
Camp Westmont in Poyntelle
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 Poyntelle, Pennsylvania
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| Coordinates: 41°49′16″N 75°25′12″W / 41.82111°N 75.42000°WCoordinates: 41°49′16″N 75°25′12″W / 41.82111°N 75.42000°W | |
| Country | United States |
| Commonwealth | Pennsylvania |
| U.S. Congressional District | 10 |
| County | Wayne |
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Wayne Highlands Region I |
| Magisterial District | 22-3-04 |
| Township | Preston |
| Named for | William Poyntell I |
| Elevation | 2,067 ft (630 m) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | Eastern Daylight (EDT) (UTC-4) |
| ZIP codes | De jure 18454 De facto 18454 18439 (Lakewood) 18453 (Pleasant Mount) 18465 (Thompson) |
| Area code(s) | 570 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1204443 |
| FIPS code | 42-127-62600-57144 |
| Major Roads |  |
| Waterways | Bone Pond,Equinunk Creek, Independent Lake, Johnson Creek,Lackawanna River (East Branch), Lackawaxen River (West Branch), Lake Lorain, Poyntelle Lake, Riley Creek |
Poyntelle (/pɔɪˈnɛl/ poy-NEL) is a village in Preston Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, in the Lake Region of the Poconos. It was once a depot of the Scranton Division of the New York, Ontario & Western (O&W) Railway, but today, when it is known outside of its immediate vicinity, it is largely for being the location of Camps Westmont and Poyntelle Lewis Village, since the reputation and commercial reach of both, like those of most rural American summer camps, extend beyond the community in which the camps are physically located.
Two Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) signs on Crosstown Highway identify the community as the "Village of Poyntelle." In Pennsylvania, a village is an unincorporated community within a township, but PennDOT identifies most villages with roadside signs, a fact that might reasonably lead those unfamiliar with this practice to believe that these communities are incorporated municipalities administered separately from the townships in which they are located. Since Pennsylvania's villages, including Poyntelle, are, in fact, not municipalities in their own right, they do not have official boundaries, and the United States Census Bureau does not collect statistics for them (unless, unlike Poyntelle, they are census-designated places). In spite of this, because of strong local consensus, as well as the fact that many features are named for the villages they are associated with, it is almost always possible to consistently determine whether a particular feature is in one village or another.
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