Mifflin County, Pennsylvania

[6] Mifflin County is located in, and has its boundaries defined by, the Ridge-and Valley Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania.

The county is one of the 423 counties served by the Appalachian Regional Commission,[7] and it is identified as part of the "Midlands" by Colin Woodard in his book American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America.

The county has a humid continental climate (Dfa/Dfb) and average temperatures in downtown Lewistown range from 27.8 °F in January to 72.7 °F in July.

Few non-Amish or Mennonites in Mifflin County today speak Pennsylvania German, but this was not true in the past.

The United States Office of Management and Budget[19] has designated Mifflin County as the Lewistown, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area (μSA).

Head Start is a federally and state funded preschool program for low income children.

(Closed 2019) The Penn State Learning Center in Lewistown offers both two-year and four-year degrees.

Recently, the Learning Center opened a state-of-the-art science lab to be used by students attending the Lewistown Hospital School of Nursing.

Mifflin County does not have a local television station but it is provided with local coverage from the following stations outside of the county from both the Harrisburg and Johnstown/Altoona markets: Under Pennsylvania law, there are four types of incorporated municipalities: cities, boroughs, townships, and, in at most two cases, towns.

Census-designated places are geographical areas designated by the US Census Bureau for the purpose of compiling demographic data.

Map of Mifflin County Pennsylvania Public School Districts
Mifflin County, showing Boroughs (red), Townships (white), and Census-designated places (blue).