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Ephrata

borough in northern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
Administrative Area Borough Of Pennsylvania Q1134073

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
borough of Pennsylvania
Official website
www.ephrataboro.org[8]
Official name
Ephrata[11]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 40.181°, -76.183°[7]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Lancaster County[2]

Population and size

Area
+8.966542, +8.964376[15][16]
Elevation above sea level
+358[14]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 358 GeoNames 110 m edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Population
+13394, +13794[9][10]

Codes

Postal code
17522[6]
More facts +7
Date of incorporation
August 22, 1891[20]
Head of government
Ralph Mowen[4]
Number of households
+5783, +5806[12][13]
Per capita income
+29568[19]
Twinned administrative body
Eberbach[5]
Water area
+0.111434[18]
Water as percent of area
+1.2431[17]
🏷️ Also known as
en Ephrata en Ephrata, PA en Ephrata, Pennsylvania es Ephrata (Pensilvania) ja エフラタ ru Эфрата uk Іфрейта zh 埃夫拉塔
🔖 Identifiers · 24
VIAF cluster ID
125421799
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n81018735
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
2547 - Ephrata - Fair 2007.JPG ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
26964
Domain name
ephrata.pa.us
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
ephrata
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
42-23832
Freebase ID
/m/0l4v0
GNIS Feature ID
1174287, 1215338
GeoNames ID
5188815
Harper's tag
ephrata, ephrata-pa
IdRef ID
256423261
Show all 24 identifiers +12
J9U entity ID
987007550589705171
MusicBrainz area ID
4d7eddd4-47aa-434f-a737-59b97e5e711f
OpenStreetMap relation ID
187692
OpenWeatherMap city ID
5188815
Quora topic ID
Ephrata-PA
Topic's main category
Category:Ephrata, Pennsylvania
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10046031
UN/LOCODE
USEHP
Who's on First ID
101718645
World Historical Gazetteer place ID
12791405
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJc846YpHFVFpqHfB6BF8C
Yale LUX ID
place/1b6300ce-7f47-4b72-ab7c-3537c69a1667

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🔗 Connections
People born here 3
Mike Mentzer, Charles B. McVay III, Whitey Von Nieda
Contained subdivisions 1
Ephrata Cloister
Country 1
United States
Instance of 1
borough of Pennsylvania
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Lancaster County
People who died here 1
Conrad Beissel
Twinned administrative body 1
Eberbach
← Headquarters location 1
Lancaster Farming
← Location of formation 1
Texas in July
← Twinned administrative body 1
Eberbach
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Summary

Ephrata is a borough of Pennsylvania[1].

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → ephrata, ephrata-pa
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: ephrata, Matched to ephrata (#289926721) in Harper's tag #mix'n'm"
  2. 22w ago · Mxn · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Number of households → 5,783, 5,806
    Coordinate location → —
    Country → United States
    Area → 8.966542, 8.964376
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Domain name: ephrata.pa.us"
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