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Linglestown is a census-designated place in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, just northeast of Harrisburg in the Harrisburg-Carlisle metropolitan area.

Linglestown was founded and laid out in 1765 by Thomas Lingle, who bought the land to build a 90-plot community for newly arriving European settlers and called it 'The Town of St. Thomas' after his namesake apostle.

Thomas Lingle's original village plan, drawn on sheepskin with every plot, street, and alley marked, still survives today.

After Lingle died in 1811, residents began calling the village 'Lingle's town,' which gradually evolved into the modern name Linglestown.

The 2020 census counted 6,539 people in 2,622 households in Linglestown, with an average household size of about 2.43 people.

Linglestown is where the Church of God denomination had its world beginning — its first church structure and cemetery were built in the village — and St. Thomas United Church of Christ is the village's oldest congregation.

The village square is famous locally for the flagpole standing in the middle of the road; a long-debated renovation completed in 2010 added roundabouts around it instead of removing it.

Koons Park, a 33-acre park in the heart of Linglestown, offers a pool, ball fields, tennis and basketball courts, and a July 4th fireworks display sponsored by the Linglestown Fire Company that draws more than 2,000 people.

Linglestown's schools — Linglestown Elementary School, home of the Lions, and Linglestown Middle School, home of the Rams — are part of the Central Dauphin School District.

Pennsylvania Route 39, Linglestown Road, runs east to west through the village, and the land rises to 995 feet on the south slope of Blue Mountain at the community's northern edge.