THE PENN LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Piedmont Limestone/Dolomite Lowlands setting.
Penn township has 29.6 square miles of land in Lancaster County. Its Census reference point is in Piedmont Limestone/Dolomite Lowlands, within Northern Piedmont.
Rounded low hills, open valleys and irregular plains form a transition between Appalachian highlands and the coastal plain. The underlying geology mixes metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rocks.
Regional context: Northern Piedmont ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Penn and Lancaster County
Penn is associated with Lancaster County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Penn by land and water
The Census records 0.13 square miles of water within Penn, or 0.4% of its total area. It is 3.6 percentage points lower than the 4.1% recorded for Lancaster County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Penn township has 15.7 times the land area of nearby Penryn CDP (1.89 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

