Pine Grove is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States.

[3] Pine Grove Area School District, serving students from three municipalities and multiple surrounding townships, is located in the borough.

[4] European settlement of the area by German Palatines, however, pre-dates this official founding date by at least several decades.

Historical records document the Jacob Gunkle building was Lutheran church in the area as early as 1782.

[8] Swatara Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River, runs through Pine Grove.

[4][9] A 22-mile (35 km) feeder branch of the Union Canal connected the Swatara Creek at Pine Grove to Union Water Works between 1830 (or 1832) and 1862, until its destruction when the Swatara flooded in June 1862.