Iola, PA

Iola is a census-designated place in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. The 2020 census counted 154 residents. Iola is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Iola is part of the Bloomsburg-Berwick micropolitan area. The short version is that Iola carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Iola: its past remains attached to the places people use now. A milling business was set up in Iola in the winter of 1828. A church was built in the community in 1850. Iola is bordered to the south by the borough of Millville and to the west by Little Fishing Creek, across which is Pine Township.