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Elkland is a borough in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, along the Cowanesque River in the northern tier of the state, close to the New York border.

The first settlers arrived in the Cowanesque valley in 1806, when the Taylor family came from the Delaware Water Gap area by way of the Wyoming Valley and Pipe Creek.

Elkland Township was organized in 1814 and once stretched eleven miles along the New York state line; the borough of Elkland was created from it by an act approved April 10, 1849, and incorporated in 1850.

The 2020 census counted 1,827 people in Elkland, and the 2000 census counted 755 households in the borough.

Elkland's population peaked at 2,400 in 1940, during the era when the Elkland Tannery and other river-powered industries anchored the local economy.

The Elkland Tannery, established about 1851 on the south bank of the Cowanesque River, operated under a succession of owners for decades and was rebuilt after a major fire in January 1893.

Elkland was once a toy-making town: the Elkland Manufacturing Company, established in 1887 under Charles W. Crandall of the famous Crandall's building blocks family, employed 60 to 75 men and shipped toys and novelties all over the world.

The Parkhurst Memorial Presbyterian Church in Elkland was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

Elkland hosts the administrative offices of the Northern Tioga School District at 110 Ellison Road, along with the district's Clark Wood Elementary School.

Elkland Area High School closed in 2011 because of low enrollment, so Elkland students now attend either Williamson High School in Tioga or Cowanesque Valley High School in Westfield.