Meanings
- One of 67 counties in Pennsylvania, United States. County seat: Reading.
His district — which covers all but seven eastern Lancaster County municipalities along with Reading in Berks County and parts of western Chester County — was reconfigured to to ^([sic]) drop Berks and Chester while expanding to all of Lancaster County and adding southern York County.
2018 October 21, Sam Janesch, “Meet Lloyd Smucker: Amish-born congressman seeking a second term on tax cuts and conservative record”, in Lancaster Online, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2022
Origin
Named after the short form of Berkshire in England, which also has Reading as its county town.
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Berks County. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Berks%20County
“Berks County.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Berks%20County. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Berks County,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Berks%20County.
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