 | Parts of this article (those related to demographics) need to be updated. (February 2018) |
Paradise, Pennsylvania | |
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 Souvenir shop in Paradise on U.S. Route 30 | |
 Location in Lancaster County | |
  Paradise Location in Pennsylvania  Paradise Location in the United States | |
| Coordinates: 40°0′35″N 76°7′43″W / 40.00972°N 76.12861°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Lancaster |
| Township | Paradise |
| Area | |
• Total | 1.18 sq mi (3.06 km2) |
| • Land | 1.16 sq mi (3.02 km2) |
| • Water | 0.02 sq mi (0.05 km2) |
| Elevation | 364 ft (111 m) |
| Population | |
• Total | 1,305 |
| • Density | 1,121.13/sq mi (432.78/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 17562 |
| Area code | 717 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1183274[3] |
| FIPS code | 42-57840 |
Paradise is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States, with a ZIP code of 17562. The population was 1,129 at the 2010 census.[4]
Paradise, like Intercourse, is a popular site in Pennsylvania Dutch Country for tourists who like the name of the town; they are together often named in lists of "delightfully named towns" in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Blue Ball, Lititz, Bareville, Fertility, Bird-in-Hand and Mount Joy.[5] It was the setting of the 1994 comedy film Trapped in Paradise.
- ^ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
- ^ "Census Population API". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
- ^ "Paradise". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Total Population: 2010 Census DEC Summary File 1 (P1), Paradise CDP, Pennsylvania". data.census.gov. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
- ^ Ward's quarterly (1965) p.109 quote:
...in such delightfully named towns in Pennsylvania Dutchland as his native Mount Joy, and neighboring Lititz, Blue Ball, Bareville, Intercourse, Bird in Hand, and Paradise.
- Anderson (1979) p.214 quote:"...but anyone who names their towns Mount Joy, Intercourse, and Blue Ball can't be all bad. Obviously they have more on their minds than just religion."
- Museums Association (2006) p.61 quote:Which brings us to Intercourse. You can imagine my delight when I found out that the Amish call the town of Intercourse, Pennsylvania, their home. There seems to be a lot of explanations from locals trying to pass off the name as a bastardisation of 'Enter Course' and so on, but seeing as there are other local towns called Blue Ball, Bird In Hand, and Mount Joy, I suspect that the person responsible had a very juvenile sense of humour. The town sits in upstate Pennsylvania and is a tourist trap for anyone even remotely curious about the Amish way of life.
- Rand McNally and Company (1978) p.52
- Mencken (1963) p.653 quote:In the years since then many of these names have been changed to more elegant ones,2 and others have vanished with the ghost towns they adorned, but not a few still hang on. Indeed, there are plenty of lovely specimens to match them in the East, in regions that were also frontier in their days, e.g., the famous cluster in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania: Bird in Hand, Bareville, Blue Ball, Mt. Joy, Intercourse and Paradise.