Editing Bedford, Pennsylvania (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Bedford Pennsylvania 1969 1VBSD00010087.jpg|thumb|Bedford in 1969]]
Bedford is located in the center of Bedford County at {{coord|40|0|59|N|78|30|15|W|type:city}} (40.016361, −78.504071).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=April 23, 2011 |date=February 12, 2011 |title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> It is completely surrounded by [[Bedford Township, Pennsylvania|Bedford Township]].

The borough is accessible from Exit 146 of the [[Pennsylvania Turnpike]] at the midpoint between [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|Harrisburg]] and [[Pittsburgh]]. [[U.S. Route 220]] is a four-lane north-south highway that bypasses Bedford to the west and becomes [[Interstate 99]] just north of town where it crosses the Pennsylvania Turnpike. US-220 Business passes through the center of Bedford as Richard Street. The [[Raystown Branch Juniata River|Raystown Branch]] of the [[Juniata River]], a tributary of the [[Susquehanna River]], flows west to east through the center of Bedford.

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the borough has a total area of {{convert|2.88|km2|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|0.07|sqkm|order=flip|2}}, or 2.51%, is water.<ref name="Census 2010">{{cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/0600000US4200904944 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212162529/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/0600000US4200904944 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 12, 2020 |title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Bedford borough, Bedford County, Pennsylvania |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder |access-date=February 28, 2014}}</ref>