Easton
Sign in to savecity in and the county seat of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Northampton
- First settled
- 1739 ; 287 years ago ( 1739 )
- Incorporated as a town
- 1752 ; 274 years ago ( 1752 )
- Incorporated as a city
- January 12, 1887 ; 139 years ago ( 1887-01-12 )
- Mayor
- Salvatore J. Panto Jr. ( D )
- City
- 4.86 sq mi (12.59 km )
- Land
- 4.26 sq mi (11.04 km )
- Water
- 0.59 sq mi (1.54 km ) 12.35%
- Elevation
- 211 ft (64 m)
- Rank
- 4th in the Lehigh Valley , 16th in Pennsylvania
- Density
- 6,597.4/sq mi (2,547.27/km )
- Metro
- 865,310 (US: 68th )
- Time zone
- UTC– 05:00 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC– 04:00 ( EDT )
- Zip codes
- 18040, 18042–18045
- Area codes
- 610 and 484
via Wikipedia infobox
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Easton is a city in and the county seat of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city's population was 28,127 as of the 2020 census. Easton straddles the Lehigh River as it flows into the Delaware River, which serves as the city's eastern geographic boundary with Phillipsburg, New Jersey.
Easton is the easternmost city in the Lehigh Valley, a region of 731 square miles (1,890 km) that is Pennsylvania's third-largest and the nation's 68th-largest metropolitan region with 861,889 residents as of the U.S. 2020 census. The smallest of the Valley's three major cities, Easton has less than half the population of Bethlehem and about one-fourth that of Allentown.