Mountville is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,022 at the 2020 census, an increase over the figure of 2,802 tabulated in 2010. The original Charles Chips potato chip factory was located here.
Mountville Community Center
1894 birds-eye-view of Mountville borough, looking north
Borough Hall
1907 firehouse
Pennsylvania Route 462 is a 32-mile-long (51 km) east–west state route in York and Lancaster counties in central Pennsylvania. The western terminus is west of York, and the eastern terminus is east of Lancaster. At both ends, PA 462 terminates at U.S. Route 30, which follows a mostly freeway alignment parallel to the north between York and Lancaster. The route heads east into York, where it follows the one-way pair of Market Street eastbound and Philadelphia Street westbound. In York, PA 462 runs concurrent with PA 74 and crosses Interstate 83 Business. East of York, the route becomes a multilane road that has an interchange with I-83 and crosses PA 24. PA 462 continues east through Hallam to Wrightsville and passes through that town before it crosses the Susquehanna River and runs through Columbia. East of here, the route continues through Mountville before reaching the city of Lancaster. In Lancaster, PA 462 is routed on the one-way pair of King Street eastbound and Walnut Street westbound, with the westbound direction concurrent with PA 23. The route crosses US 222/PA 272 and northbound PA 72 in Lancaster. East of Lancaster, PA 462 becomes a multilane road again and continues to its eastern terminus.
PA 462 westbound on the border of Manor and East Hempfield townships
PA 462 eastbound in Lancaster Township approaching the city of Lancaster
PA 462 westbound in Columbia approaching the Columbia–Wrightsville Bridge over the Susquehanna River