Shanks Mill, Pennsylvania

Shanesville
(Berks County)

Shanktown
(Indiana County)

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Shanks Mill ^<1> is located in Adams County.

Typical abbreviation for Shanks Mill: Shanks Ml. (or less commonly used: Shanks Mll.)

Shanks Mill is 130 feet [39.62 m] above sea level.^<2>

Time Zone: Shanks Mill lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time.

We searched for American and Canadian communities that also have the name of Shanks Mill, but it seems to be unique to this community.

While we we don't have population counts for Shanks Mill, we do have some information about the surrounding area on the Census Page for Shanks Mill).

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

Community	Direction	Distance ^<3>	2008 ^<4> Population	Change Since 2000
Frederick (MD)	SE	14 mi [22.53 km]	59,213	12.22% increase
Hagerstown (MD)	W	19 mi [30.58 km]	39,728	8.29% increase
Myersville (MD)	SW	18 mi [28.97 km]	1,511	9.33% increase
New Windsor (MD)	SE	18 mi [28.97 km]	1,352	3.76% increase
Paramount-Long Meadow (MD)	W	17 mi [27.36 km]	---
Smithsburg (MD)	SW	12 mi [19.31 km]	2,908	35.51% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Shanks Mill.

The Commemorative
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Footnotes

<1>	Keep in mind that you might find some variations to Shanks Mill: It's frequently the practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Shanks Mill may originally have been Shank's Mill. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether. In that case, you may find that a reference to Shank Mill is actually referring to Shanks Mill. - Return to Citation
<2>	The elevation is an estimate for the area around Shanks Mill - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others. - Return to Citation
<3>	Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Shanks Mill and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance. - Return to Citation
<4>	Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Shanks Mill. - Return to Citation
<5>	All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint. - Return to Citation

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