Friedensville, Pennsylvania | |
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Unincorporated community | |
Location of Friedensville in Pennsylvania | |
Coordinates: 40°33′33″N 75°23′41″W / 40.55917°N 75.39472°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Pennsylvania |
County | Lehigh |
Township | Upper Saucon Township |
Elevation | 130 m (420 ft) |
Population | |
• Metro | 865,310 (US: 68th) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP Code | 18017 |
GNIS feature ID | 1175250 [1] |
Friedensville is an unincorporated community which is located in Upper Saucon Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Lehigh Valley, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
The community's name is derived from the ‹See Tfd›German: Friedenskirche, "Church of peace".[2] Zinc mining was once a key industry in the area.