Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Campbelltown, PA

Campbelltown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in South Londonderry Township, in southwestern Lebanon County.

The village was established as "Campbell's Town" by Scotch-Irish settler John Campbell, who patented a 352-acre tract on August 6, 1759 and laid out lots on the ground-rent system.

A post office was established in Campbelltown in about 1811, with Philip Wolfersberger — who had bought the Campbell tract in 1785 — serving as the first postmaster.

Campbelltown sits at the intersection of U.S. Route 322 and Pennsylvania Route 117, just east of Hershey, on what was once the Horseshoe Pike between Philadelphia and Harrisburg.

Campbelltown has grown rapidly: its population rose from 3,616 at the 2010 census to 5,922 at the 2020 census.

At the 2000 census, Campbelltown had 2,415 residents living in 900 households, with an average household size of about 2.6 people.

Since a 1962 school district merger, Campbelltown's children have been served by the Palmyra Area School District.

Campbelltown holds the ship's bell of HMS Campbeltown, the Royal Navy destroyer famous for the St Nazaire Raid; the bell was bequeathed to the town in 1950, was lent to a later HMS Campbeltown in 1988, and was returned on June 21, 2011 — it is kept at the South Londonderry Township municipal building.

On July 14, 2004, an F3 tornado with winds over 160 miles per hour struck Campbelltown — the largest and most expensive tornado ever to hit Lebanon County — yet no one was killed.