Smoketown is a small farming village in East Lampeter Township

East Lampeter Township, Pennsylvania

East Lampeter Township is a township in central Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 13,556.East Lampeter Township is one of the six immediate suburbs of the city of Lancaster, all sharing the same official designation as Lancaster, Pennsylvania by...

, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Lancaster County, known as the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a county located in the southeastern part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of 2010 the population was 519,445. Lancaster County forms the Lancaster Metropolitan Statistical Area, the...

, west of Bird-in-Hand

Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania

Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated community with parts lying in East Lampeter Township, and Upper Leacock Township, Lancaster County in the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The community has a large Amish and Mennonite population...

 at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 340

Pennsylvania Route 340

Pennsylvania Route 340 is a long state highway located in Lancaster and Chester counties in Pennsylvania. The western terminus is at Pennsylvania Route 462 in Lancaster. The eastern terminus is at U.S...

 (Old Philadelphia Pike) and Pennsylvania Route 896

Pennsylvania Route 896

Pennsylvania Route 896 is a north–south state highway located in the counties of Lancaster and Chester in southeastern Pennsylvania. The northern terminus is at Pennsylvania Route 340 in the East Lampeter Township hamlet of Smoketown, just east of Lancaster. The southern terminus is at the...

 (Eastbrook Rd). Also known as Smoke Town, it is served by the Smoketown Airport

Smoketown Airport

Smoketown Airport is an airport open to the public, located in Smoketown, east of Lancaster, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. The airport is owned by Marlin Horst and managed by Mel Glick. The FAA reports an average of 74 aircraft operations per day and also reports that there are 86...

. As of 2000, it has a population of 119.

Demographics

As of the 2000 census, Smoketown has a population of 119 in an area of 0.1 square miles. 115 were white, and 4 belonged to two or more races. There were 47 housing units, making the average household size 2.53 people.

Trivia

Charles Carl Roberts

Charles Carl Roberts

Charles Carl Roberts IV was an American milk truck driver who murdered five Amish girls and injured five others before killing himself in an Amish school in the hamlet of Nickel Mines, in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on October 2, 2006.- Personal life :Charles Carl Roberts IV was...

, the murderer of five young Amish girls, worked at the Good n' Plenty Restaurant in Smoketown, as did Lawrence Yunkin and Lisa Michelle Lambert, who murdered Laurie Show in Lancaster

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Lancaster is a city in the south-central part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the county seat of Lancaster County and one of the older inland cities in the United States, . With a population of 59,322, it ranks eighth in population among Pennsylvania's cities...

on December 20, 1991.