Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
Borough
State Street in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, May 2007
State Street in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, May 2007
Nickname: 
"Kennett"
Location in Chester County and the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Location in Chester County and the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Kennett Square is located in Pennsylvania
Kennett Square
Kennett Square
Location in Pennsylvania
Kennett Square is located in the United States
Kennett Square
Kennett Square
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 39°50′39″N 75°42′38″W / 39.84417°N 75.71056°W / 39.84417; -75.71056
CountryUnited States
StatePennsylvania
CountyChester
Settled1682[1]
Area
[2]
 • Total1.07 sq mi (2.78 km2)
 • Land1.06 sq mi (2.76 km2)
 • Water0.01 sq mi (0.02 km2)
Elevation
328 ft (100 m)
Population
 (2020)[3]
 • Total5,936
 • Density5,573.71/sq mi (2,151.38/km2)
Time zoneUTC−5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Code
19348
Area codes610 and 484
FIPS code42-39352
WebsiteBorough website

Kennett Square is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census, Kennett Square had a population of 5,943.[4]

Kennett Square is located in the Delaware Valley and considered a suburb of both Philadelphia, the nation's sixth largest city as of 2020, and Wilmington, Delaware. The local high school is Kennett High School. The corporate headquarters of Genesis HealthCare, which administers elderly care facilities, is based in Kennett Square.

The borough is sometimes referred to as the "Mushroom Capital of the World" even though historically the surrounding area is the epicenter of mushroom business in Southern Chester County. [5] because mushroom farming in the region produces over 500 million pounds of mushrooms a year, representing half of the nation's mushroom crop production.[6] To celebrate this heritage, Kennett Square holds an annual Mushroom Festival, where the town and its businesses hold a parade, mushroom farm tours, and sells food and other goods.

  1. ^ "Historic Kennett Square". Historic Kennett Square. Retrieved Jul 14, 2017.
  2. ^ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference USCensusDecennial2020CenPopScriptOnly was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "City and Town Population Totals: 2020-2021". Census.gov. US Census Bureau. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Mushroom Capital". Archived from the original on 2006-12-08. Retrieved 2006-12-26.
  6. ^ "This small Pennsylvania region produces half the mushroom crop in the U.S." PBS. 11 November 2017.