Union Deposit, Pennsylvania

Union Deposit is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in South Hanover Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Harrisburg-Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census the population of Union Deposit was 407 residents.
Union Deposit was laid out in 1833 by Isaac Hershey and Philip Wolfersberger. The village's original growth and namesake comes from construction of the Union Canal, which deposited goods in the area, upon where the village boomed from various commercial enterprises.

Geography

The community is in southeastern Dauphin County, along the southeastern edge of South Hanover Township. Its southern and eastern border follows Swatara Creek, a southward-flowing tributary of the Susquehanna River. Pennsylvania Route 39 forms the northeastern edge of the community; it leads southeast to the center of Hershey and northwest to Interstate 81.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Union Deposit CDP has a total area of, of which is land and, or 4.19%, is water.