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Norristown, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 31282
Housing Units (2000): 13531
Land area (2000): 3.526067 sq. miles (9.132472 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.526067 sq. miles (9.132472 sq. km)
FIPS code: 54656
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.119884 N, 75.341701 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 19401
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Norristown may mean:

  • Norristown, Indiana, an unincorporated community
  • Norristown, Pennsylvania
  • Norristown, California an ephemeral California Gold Rush settlement on the American River.

Usage examples of "norristown".

The terrain was arid and rugged, characterized by buttes and tors and mesas similar to those around Norristown but softened by small skyblue lakes and patches of hardwood forest.

To each grouping of four balloons, Lunk added a carefully concealed propellant device in addition to a sensor that would allow the four-color group to home in on a prearranged beacon signal transmitted from the outskirts of Norristown, close to the spot where the team had left the Cyclones and the Veritech.

He had once been an altar boy at Saint Rose of Lima Church in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and there were traces of that still in him: There was now, as then, a suggestion that just beneath the clean-cut, innocent surface, was an alter ego with horns itching for the chance to jump out and do something forbidden.

Working on the car was a dodge, an escape: He should really be going back to Norristown, even if he had to ride there on the Interurban Rapid Transit.

There he had remained until, accompanied by the good Father Zoghby, he surrendered himself to the Norristown Police to face charges.

The Invid had made a point of allowing local customs and garb to remain unchanged in Norristown and numerous other strongholds throughout the Southlands.

Much of Norristown, including the arena, owed its existence to the same man.

There were no contingency plans other than to get out of Norristown as quickly as possible.

Scott ran us through a kind of mutual-appreciation debriefing on the Norristown raid.

It was the same police van they had commandeered in Norristown, but Lunk had removed the canvas top and given the thing an olive-drab onceover in memory of the beloved APC he had had blown out from under him in the highlands.

He had concentrated on Rand, who months ago at Yellow Dancer's final concert had said something about heading for the outskirts of Norristown, where he planned to write his memoirs.

My first job juggling, not counting the cursed Methodists, was at the nearby Norristown amusement park.

The sleek black Bell set down in a small field in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

He knew more about Second Lieutenant McCoy than anyone else in the Marine Corps, including the fact that he had a father and a sister in Norristown, Pennsylvania.