Holtwood, Pennsylvania

Holtwood, Pennsylvania
Village
Holtwood, Pennsylvania Location within the state of Pennsylvania
Coordinates: 39°49′55″N 76°19′39″W / 39.83194°N 76.32750°W / 39.83194; -76.32750Coordinates: 39°49′55″N 76°19′39″W / 39.83194°N 76.32750°W / 39.83194; -76.32750
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Lancaster
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes	17532
GNIS feature ID	1177240^[1]

Holtwood, Pennsylvania is a village in Martic Township, Lancaster County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

Holtwood is the site of the Muddy Run Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant (172 Bethesda Church Road West, Holtwood, PA 17532), along the Susquehanna River. It pumps water into a reservoir during off-peak hours and uses that water to generate electricity during peak demand hours; it produces over 1,000 megawatts (MW) of power.^[2]

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Municipalities and communities of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States

County seat: Lancaster

City	Lancaster

Boroughs	Adamstown‡ Akron Christiana Columbia Denver East Petersburg Elizabethtown Ephrata Lititz Manheim Marietta Millersville Mount Joy Mountville New Holland Quarryville Strasburg Terre Hill

Townships	Bart Brecknock Caernarvon Clay Colerain Conestoga Conoy Drumore Earl East Cocalico East Donegal East Drumore East Earl East Hempfield East Lampeter Eden Elizabeth Ephrata Fulton Lancaster Leacock Little Britain Manheim Manor Martic Mount Joy Paradise Penn Pequea Providence Rapho Sadsbury Salisbury Strasburg Upper Leacock Warwick West Cocalico West Donegal West Earl West Hempfield West Lampeter

CDPs	Bainbridge Bird-in-Hand Blue Ball Bowmansville Brickerville Brownstown Churchtown Clay Conestoga East Earl Falmouth Farmersville Fivepointville Gap Georgetown Goodville Gordonville Hopeland Intercourse Kirkwood Lampeter Landisville Leola Little Britain Maytown Morgantown‡ Paradise Penryn Reamstown Refton Reinholds Rheems Ronks Rothsville Salunga Schoeneck Smoketown Soudersburg Stevens Swartzville Wakefield Washington Boro Willow Street Witmer

Unincorporated communities	Bartville Bausman Beartown Bethesda Blainsport Buck Central Manor Cocalico Conewago Creswell Dillerville Elm Fertility Hempfield Hinkletown Holtwood Hunsecker Kinzers Kissel Hill Leaman Place Lyndon Martic Forge Marticville Martindale Mastersonville Mechanics Grove Narvon New Danville Neffsville Nickel Mines Ninepoints Oregon Peach Bottom Pequea Rawlinsville Safe Harbor Silver Spring Spring Garden Talmage White Horse

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

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