Maxatawny, PA

Maxatawny is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located on U.S. Route 222 in Maxatawny Township, Pennsylvania, United States, five miles east of Kutztown. Maxatawny is in the Lehigh watershed and Schaefer Run flows through it to the Little Lehigh Creek. Traffic speed on US 222 is reduced to 35 miles-per-hour passing through the village, which borders Lehigh County. The through line in Maxatawny is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Maxatawny makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. A post office called Maxatawny was established in 1829.