Situated in a highly Amish region of Lancaster County, only 43.7% of the township's population speaks English, while 56.3% speaks an "other [than Spanish] Indo-European language"[2] (almost entirely Pennsylvania German/German).

[3] This abbreviation was used by former Colonial Governor Sir William Keith, Bart.

[4] After being forced out of the Governorship by Hannah Penn,[5] Sir William Keith, Bart.

He left for England, never to return[6] He abandoned his wife, Lady Keith, who is buried in Christ Church Cemetery in Philadelphia.

[7] On October 2, 2006, a lone gunman, identified as Charles Carl Roberts IV, shot ten Amish schoolgirls, killing five of them, in an attack on West Nickel Mines Parochial School, an Amish one-room school in Nickel Mines, Bart Township.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 16.2 square miles (42 km2), all land.

12.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.