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York County, PA

York County, Pennsylvania
Countryside in York County PA.jpg Golden Plow York PA.JPG
YorkPaTwinsSign.jpg York Meeting WSW.JPG
Clockwise from top left: A farm in York County, Golden Plough Tavern, York Friends Meeting House, and welcome sign.
Seal of York County, Pennsylvania
Seal
Map of Pennsylvania highlighting York County
Location in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania
Map of the United States highlighting Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's location in the U.S.
Founded August 19, 1749
Seat York
Largest city York
Area
 • Total 911 sq mi (2,359 km2)
 • Land 904 sq mi (2,341 km2)
 • Water 6.5 sq mi (17 km2), 0.7%
Population (est.)
 • (2015) 442,867
 • Density 490/sq mi (189/km²)
Congressional district 4th
Time zone Eastern: UTC-5/-4
Website yorkcountypa.gov

York County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 434,972. Its county seat is York. The county was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster County and named either for the Duke of York, an early patron of the Penn family, or for the city and shire of York in England.

York County comprises the York-Hanover, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA Combined Statistical Area. It is in the Susquehanna Valley, a large fertile agricultural region in South Central Pennsylvania.

Based on the Articles of Confederation having been adopted in York by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, the local government and business community began referring to York in the 1960s as the first capital of the United States of America. The designation has been debated by historians ever since. Congress considered York, and the borough of Wrightsville, on the eastern side of York County along the Susquehanna River, as a permanent capital of the United States before Washington, D.C., was selected.


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