Home › Entities › Borough Of Pennsylvania › Shippensburg

Shippensburg

borough of Pennsylvania
Administrative Area Borough Of Pennsylvania Q1184154
Shippensburg
Cgboeree at English Wikipedia · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

13 properties

Identity

Instance of
borough of Pennsylvania
Inception
1730[6]
Official name
Shippensburg[10]

Location

Country
United States[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 40.049°, -77.524°[7]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Cumberland County, Franklin County[2][3]

Population and size

Area
+1.99[13]
Elevation above sea level
+686[12]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 686 GeoNames 196 m edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Population
+5478, +4416[8][9]

Codes

Postal code
17257[5]
More facts +3
Number of households
+2560[11]
Per capita income
+25813[15]
Territory overlaps
Shippensburg urban area[14]
🏷️ Also known as
en Shippensburg en Shippensburg, PA ar شيبنسبورغ he שיפנסבורג ja シッペンスバーグ ru Шиппенсберг uk Шиппенсбург
🔖 Identifiers · 20
VIAF cluster ID
128754977
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n81001869
ArchINFORM location ID
38178
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
42-70352
Freebase ID
/m/013kr5
GNIS Feature ID
1217325, 1187553
GeoNames ID
5212038, 5212025
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
shippensburg
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0437987
Harper's tag
shippensburg
J9U entity ID
987007566736405171
MusicBrainz area ID
b8390314-8a32-418c-8220-55cc0ef10bd1
Show all 20 identifiers +8
OpenStreetMap relation ID
188285
Quora topic ID
Shippensburg-PA
Subreddit
shippensburg
Topic's main category
Category:Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
WOEID
2492899
Who's on First ID
101716737
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJpV6FpvYHrCy4f6DvXWXd
Yale LUX ID
place/0fe41ff7-eeac-4e22-8335-3daf4ae18f6f

Report an error or request removal Lineage (PROV-JSON)

🔗 Connections
← Place of publication 7
Democratic Chronicle, The Chronicle, The Holiday, The News-Chronicle, The Shippensburg Chronicle, The Shippensburg News, Weekly News
People born here 6
John Hamilton, Samuel D. Sturgis, Emma Bugbee, Daniel Duncan, Joseph Henderson, William A. Reeder
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Cumberland County, Franklin County
Contained subdivisions 1
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Country 1
United States
Instance of 1
borough of Pennsylvania
People who died here 1
C. George Boeree
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

Shippensburg is a borough of Pennsylvania[1].

Body

Geography

Located in include Cumberland County[2], a county of Pennsylvania[16], in United States[17], founded in 1750[18] and Franklin County[3], a county of Pennsylvania[19], in United States[20], founded in 1784[21].

Related Entities

Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania United States

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Shippensburg. Retrieved November 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/shippensburg
MLA “Shippensburg.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Nov. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/shippensburg.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_shippensburg_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Shippensburg}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/shippensburg}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Shippensburg — https://4ort.xyz/entity/shippensburg (retrieved 2026-11-10)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/shippensburg · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → shippensburg
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: shippensburg, Matched to shippensburg (#289959269) in Harper's tag…"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.