Portland is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The population of Portland was 494 at the 2020 census. Portland is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was thus the 68th most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
A church in Portland, January 2013
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PA Route 611 northbound at the exit for the Portland–Columbia Toll Bridge in Portland
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Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Northampton County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 312,951. Its county seat is Easton. The county was formed in 1752 from parts of Bucks County. Its namesake was the county of Northamptonshire in England, and the county seat of Easton was named for Easton Neston, a country house in Northamptonshire. The county is part of the Southeast Pennsylvania region of the state.
A 1905 illustration of Northampton County Courthouse in Easton
The Easton–Phillipsburg Toll Bridge, which connects Easton in Northampton County with Phillipsburg in northwestern New Jersey in the Lehigh Valley, in October 2009
The Alumni Memorial Building at Lehigh University in Bethlehem in August 2005
Freedom High School, one of two large public high schools in the Bethlehem Area School District, in November 2008
