Pennsylvania Senate, District 48 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Pennsylvania's 48th Senatorial district includes parts of Berks, Chester, Dauphin, Lancaster, and Lebanon Counties.

All of Lebanon County

Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

As of the census of 2000, there were 120,327 people and 32,771 families residing in the county. The population density was 332 people per square mile . There were 49,320 housing units at an average density of 136 per square mile...

Berks County

Berks County, Pennsylvania

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 373,638 people, 141,570 households, and 98,532 families residing in the county. The population density was 435 people per square mile . There were 150,222 housing units at an average density of 175 per square mile...

Adamstown
Adamstown, Pennsylvania
Adamstown is a borough in Berks and Lancaster counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The population was 1,789 at the 2010 census. It was initially founded on 4 July 1761 by William Addams on the site of a former village of native Americans, and Addams named the community "Addamsburry"...
Bethel Township
Bethel Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Bethel Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,166 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water. It is drained by the Little Swatara...
Brecknock Township
Brecknock Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Brecknock Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,459 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , all of it land....
Caernarvon Township
Caernarvon Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Caernarvon Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,312 at the 2000 census. It is often referred to as Morgantown, the township's largest village.-History:...
Centerport
Centerport, Pennsylvania
Centerport is a borough in north central Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 327 at the 2000 census.It is in the Schuylkill Valley School District.-Geography:...
Centre Township
Centre Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Centre Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,631 at the 2000 census.It is in Schuylkill Valley School District.-Geography:...
Heidelberg Township
Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Heidelberg Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,636 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which, of it is land and 0.07% is water.Adjacent townships*Marion Township...
Jefferson Township
Jefferson Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Jefferson Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,604 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water.Adjacent townships and boroughs*Upper...
Lower Heidelberg Township
Lower Heidelberg Township, Pennsylvania
Lower Heidelberg Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,513 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...
Marion Township
Marion Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Marion Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,573 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 15.3 square miles , of which, 15.3 square miles of it is land and 0.07%...
North Heidelberg Township
North Heidelberg Township, Pennsylvania
North Heidelberg Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,325 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...
Ontelaunee Township
Ontelaunee Township, Pennsylvania
Ontelaunee Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,217 at the 2000 census, making it the least populous township in the county.-Geography:...
Robesonia
Robesonia, Pennsylvania
Robesonia is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,061 at the 2010 census. The majority of the area's population resides out of the borough boundaries. Once famous for its iron furnaces , the town was founded in 1855 by Henry P...
Sinking Spring
Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania
Sinking Spring is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,639 at the 2000 census. Sinking Spring was given its name for a spring located in the center of town, the water in which would sink into the ground from time to time, giving it the illusion of having...
South Heidelberg Township
South Heidelberg Township, Pennsylvania
South Heidelberg Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 7,271 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...
Spring Township
Spring Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Spring Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA. The population was 27,119 at the 2010 census, making it the most populous municipality in Berks County outside the city of Reading.-Geography:...
Strausstown
Strausstown, Pennsylvania
Strausstown is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 339 at the 2000 census.-Geography and history:Strausstown is located at ....
Tulpehocken Township
Tulpehocken Township, Pennsylvania
Tulpehocken Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,290 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 23.3 square miles , all of it land.Adjacent townships*Bethel Township, Berks...
Upper Bern Township
Upper Bern Township, Pennsylvania
Upper Bern Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,479 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 18.2 square miles , all of it land...
Upper Tulpehocken Township
Upper Tulpehocken Township, Pennsylvania
Upper Tulpehocken Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,495 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...
Wernersville
Wernersville, Pennsylvania
Wernersville is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,494 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Wernersville is located at .-History:...
West Lawn
West Lawn, Pennsylvania
West Lawn is a former borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,597 at the 2000 census. This borough was dissolved and became part of Spring Township on January 1, 2006...
Womelsdorf
Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania
Womelsdorf, named after John Womelsdorff, is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,599 at the 2000 census. The main thoroughfares through Womelsdorf are High Street, which runs east-west, and Route 419, which runs north-south. Route 422 runs along the...
Wyomissing
Wyomissing, Pennsylvania
Wyomissing is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States, established on July 2, 1906. The population was 8,587 at the 2000 census, but after the January, 2002 merger with neighboring Wyomissing Hills, the combined 2000 Census estimate was 11,155 making it the most populous borough in...
Wyomissing Hills
Wyomissing Hills, Pennsylvania
Wyomissing Hills was a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States that merged into Wyomissing in January, 2002. The population was 2,568 at the 2000 census.- Geography :...

Chester County

Chester County, Pennsylvania

-State parks:*French Creek State Park*Marsh Creek State Park*White Clay Creek Preserve-Demographics:As of the 2010 census, the county was 85.5% White, 6.1% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American or Alaskan Native, 3.9% Asian, 0.0% Native Hawaiian, 1.8% were two or more races, and 2.4% were...

Elverson
Elverson, Pennsylvania
Elverson is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,225 at the 2010 census.Settled near the region's early iron mines, Elverson is close to Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, an example of a 19th century "iron plantation".-History:Elverson's earliest...

Dauphin County

Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Dauphin County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and is one of the three counties comprising the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2010 census, the population was 268,100. The county includes the city of Harrisburg, which has served as the state capital...

Conewago Township
Conewago Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Conewago Township is a township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,847 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...
Wayne Township
Wayne Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Wayne Township is a township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,184 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 13.9 square miles , all of it land.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there...
Jackson Township
Jackson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Jackson Township is a township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,728 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...
Jefferson Township
Jefferson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Jefferson Township is a township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 327 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...
Rush Township
Rush Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Rush Township is a township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 180.-Geography:...

Lancaster County

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Lancaster County, known as the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a county located in the southeastern part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of 2010 the population was 519,445. Lancaster County forms the Lancaster Metropolitan Statistical Area, the...

Conoy Township
Conoy Township, Pennsylvania
Conoy Township is a township in northwestern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 3,067.-Geography:According to the U.S...
East Donegal Township
East Donegal Township, Pennsylvania
East Donegal Township is a township in northwestern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 5,405.-Geography:According to the U.S...
Mount Joy Township
Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Mount Joy Township is a township in northwestern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 7,944 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...
West Donegal Township
West Donegal Township, Pennsylvania
West Donegal Township is a township in northwestern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 6,539 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...
Elizabethtown
Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
Elizabethtown is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, southeast of Harrisburg. Small factories existed at the turn of the century when the population in 1900 was 1,861. There was a slight increase in the next decade, with 1,970 people living in Elizabethtown in 1910. As of the 2000 census,...
Marietta
Marietta, Pennsylvania
Marietta is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,689 at the 2000 census. It is located on the east bank of the Susquehanna River just north of Columbia.-Geography:Marietta is located at ....

Senators

Representative	Party	Years	Note
Richard C. Frame	Republican Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...	1963 – 1968	Redistricted to the 25th Pennsylvania Senate, District 25 Pennsylvania's 25th Senatorial district is one of the districts for the Pennsylvania State Senate.-Boundaries:The 25th Pennsylvania Senatorial district includes the entirety of the following counties:CameronElkJeffersonMcKeanPotterTioga.... district following the 1967-68 session.
Clarence F. Manbeck	Republican Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...	1969 – 1982
David J. Brightbill David J. Brightbill David J. "Chip" Brightbill is a former member and Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania State Senate. He is a member of the Republican PartyHe was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania to Jonathan and Verda Brightbill and attended Pennsylvania Military College for two years before graduating from...	Republican Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...	1983 – 2006
Mike Folmer Mike Folmer Mike Folmer of Lebanon, Pennsylvania is a Pennsylvania State Senator who represents the 48th Senate district, which includes all of Lebanon County and portions of Berks, Chester, Dauphin and Lancaster Counties...	Republican Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...	2007 – present

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