Cashtown is a census-designated place in Franklin Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States.

The community was part of the Cashtown-McKnightstown CDP, until it was split into two separate CDPs for the 2010 census.

[4] According to tradition, the community was named for the fact a local tavern owner required that payment be made in cash.

U.S. Route 30 bypasses the center of the community and forms the northern edge of the CDP.

[7] Franklin Township Elementary School has an Orrtanna post office address,[8] but is physically in the Cashtown CDP.