Cross Roads, PA

Cross Roads is a York County borough in the York-Hanover metropolitan area, named for the roads that meet at its center: Church Road, Cross Roads Avenue, and Century Farms Road. It is a compact place in southern York County, with farm fields and township roads stretching around the borough boundary. South Eastern School District serves local students and also connects Cross Roads to neighboring communities in rural southern York County. The road map matters here more than a dense business district: the borough is a place you pass through, turn into, and use as a familiar address in the countryside.

The borough's setting is close to the Maryland line and the larger service centers of York and Hanover, while local life is organized through school, churches, homes, and volunteer institutions. Cross Roads has the feel of a Pennsylvania crossroads municipality whose identity comes from its junction and its surrounding farms. Church Road and Cross Roads Avenue are the lines that give the borough its shape. In a place this small, the road network, school district, and rural edges do most of the town-making.