Sporting Hill, Pennsylvania

Sporting Hill is an unincorporated community in Hampden Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is bordered on the north and south by the Conodoguinet Creek and the Capital Beltway (11/581,) respectively. Carlisle Pike (the old Route 11 and the main east-west route through Sporting Hill) and the Beltway interchange a short distance west of the village, which has multiple retail stores and restaurants, including in the Hampden Town Centre. Sporting Hill is served by the Mechanicsburg post office with the zip code of 17050.^[1] On June 30, 1863 the northernmost pitched battle of the American Civil War occurred there at the Skirmish of Sporting Hill during the Gettysburg Campaign.

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Brennemans Mill, Good Hope

Hogestown

Sporting Hill

Mechanicsburg

Municipalities and communities of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States

County seat: Carlisle

Boroughs	Camp Hill Carlisle Lemoyne Mechanicsburg Mount Holly Springs New Cumberland Newburg Newville Shippensburg‡ Shiremanstown Wormleysburg

Townships	Cooke Dickinson East Pennsboro Hampden Hopewell Lower Allen Lower Frankford Lower Mifflin Middlesex Monroe North Middleton North Newton Penn Shippensburg Silver Spring South Middleton South Newton Southampton Upper Allen Upper Frankford Upper Mifflin West Pennsboro

CDPs	Boiling Springs Enola Lower Allen Messiah College New Kingstown Plainfield Schlusser Shippensburg University West Fairview

Unincorporated communities	Bloserville Bowmansdale Caprivi Entlerville Grantham Lisburn Shepherdstown Sporting Hill Summerdale Wertzville Williams Grove

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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