Carbon County

Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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PIAA District 11 (Q7119294)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

District 11 of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) is an interscholastic athletic association in eastern Pennsylvania. District 11 is one of the PIAA's 12 districts and comprises high schools mostly within the Lehigh Valley and a few surrounding counties. Member schools are categorized by enrollment into classifications, differing in each of the various sports, such as: A, AA, AAA, AAAA, AAAAA, AAAAAA. District 11 is commonly notated with the Roman Numerals "XI". District XI is known to be one of the more competitive of the twelve districts within the PIAA; it owns many state championship and state runner-up trophies.

Forest Inn, Pennsylvania (Q5468987)
item type: unincorporated community
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Forest Inn is a village located on U.S. Route 209 in Towamensing Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, south of Beltzville Lake. The flagship Country Junction retail store is located in the village. Forest Inn uses the Lehighton zip code of 18235.

USGS GNIS ID: 1192476

Lower Towamensing Township (Q7999683)
item type: township of Pennsylvania
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Lower Towamensing Township is a township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The Delaware Peoples name is eponymous and was once applied by the natives to the whole region of Carbon County and bits of the Poconos to the north (Luzerne County) and to Schuylkill County (southwest). The population was 3,228 at the 2010 census.

Mud Run disaster (Q599216)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Mud Run disaster was a train wreck that occurred on October 10, 1888 at Mud Run station in Kidder Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, on the Lehigh Valley Railroad. At 10 p.m., one train ran into the back of another, killing 64 people.

St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Q7589940)
item type: church building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

St. Mark's Episcopal Church, now the Episcopal Parish of St. Mark and St. John, is a historic Episcopal church at 21 Race Street in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Completed in 1869, it is a prominent example of Gothic Revival architecture designed by that style's leading proponent, Richard Upjohn. It is one of Upjohn's last designs, and was largely funded by Asa Packer, a local millionaire whose fortunes were made in the coal fields. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.

NRHP reference number: 77001135

Lansford Historic District (Q6487412)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Lansford Historic District is a national historic district located at Lansford, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.

NRHP reference number: 12000605

Aquashicola Creek (Q4782780)
item type: tidal creek
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Aquashicola Creek (pronounced Ahkwa-SHIK-ola), also known as Aquanchicola Creek, or Aquanshicola Creek, is a 20.8-mile-long (33.5 km) tributary of the Lehigh River in the Poconos of eastern Pennsylvania in the United States.

WBYN (Q7947546)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WBYN (1160 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Lehighton, Pennsylvania, USA. The station is owned by Connoisseur Media, through licensee Connoisseur Media Licenses, LLC.

website: http://www.espnlv.com/

Mahoning Township (Q1895203)
item type: township of Pennsylvania
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Mahoning Township is a township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,305 at the 2010 census, up from 3,978 at the 2000 census.

Broad Mountain (Lehigh Valley) (Q25240927)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Broad Mountain or Broad Ridge in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians in Carbon County and Schuylkill County in Eastern Pennsylvania is a steep-faced, anthracite-bearing barrier ridge just south of both Beaver Meadows and Weatherly, north of Nesquehoning and west & south of the Lehigh River basin (so the west of the SW-border of the Poconos). The Mountain ridge line is mostly flat and looks very similar to the man made piles of culm in the region from the roads and towns looking up; being a natural mountain, it is quite different when under one's feet.

Penn Forest Township (Q7163176)
item type: township of Pennsylvania
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Penn Forest Township is a township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 9,581 at the 2010 census, up from 5,439 at the 2000 census.

Little Gap Covered Bridge (Q6650129)
item type: road bridge / covered bridge
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Little Gap Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge located near Little Gap in Lower Towamensing Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1860, and is a 73-foot, Burr truss span crosses the Aquashicola Creek. The bridge incorporates elements of the Howe truss in its construction.

NRHP reference number: 80004294

Jack Frost Ski Resort (Q15229111)
item type: ski resort
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Jack Frost Ski Resort which opened in 1972, is located in Kidder Township, Carbon County, near White Haven, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Pocono region. Operated by Peak Resorts, it offers 20 trails and a terrain park for skiing and snowboarding.

Tunkhannock Creek (Q7853239)
item type: stream
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Tunkhannock Creek is a 19.2-mile-long (30.9 km) tributary of Tobyhanna Creek in the Poconos of eastern Pennsylvania in the United States.

WLSH (Q7952471)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WLSH (1410 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult standards music format. Licensed to Lansford, Pennsylvania, the station is owned by J-Systems Franchising Corp. and features programming from USA Radio Network and Westwood One. WLSH has a daytime power of 5,000 watts. WLSH serves portions of seven counties in East Central Pennsylvania including significant portions of the Allentown / Bethlehem market and the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton market. WLSH signed-on December 24, 1952.

website: http://www.wmgh.com

Franklin Township (Q5491917)
item type: township of Pennsylvania
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Franklin Township is a township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,262 at the 2010 census. A portion of Beltzville State Park is in Franklin Township.

East Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania (Q16992202)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

East Mauch Chunk, organized as a Pennsylvania township when a part of 19th century Northampton County, Pennsylvania, was originally settled in the 1820s as a cross river bedroom community from both vanished Lausanne Landing and the explosively growing Mauch Chunk which it served as an upscale bedroom community, where company managers and officers were known to build homes, along with the housing built in what is known as upper Mauch Chunk. The community became a township in [TBDL: date and County] and was later organized [TBDL: 1850s? Cite History of Carbon County] as a formerly independent borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district (Q7163553)
item type: United States congressional district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Pennsylvania’s 17th congressional district is represented by Democrat Matthew Cartwright. The district encompasses Schuylkill County and portions of Carbon, Monroe, Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Northampton counties.

Sharp Mountain (Q14951325)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Sharp Mountain or Sharp Ridge (historically also spelled 'Sharpe') in eastern central Pennsylvania in the United States is a ridgeline (fold) of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians cut through on its east-side in the Tamaqua gap by the Little Schuylkill River which sunders it from the eastern extension of the ridgeline, the Nesquehoning Ridge. The ridgeline, located in the heart of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Region, drains to the Susquehanna along its western slopes and via the Little Schuylkill tributary of the Schuylkill River on its eastern faces.

Mauch Chunk Creek (Q6792185)
item type: river
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Mauch Chunk Creek (also known as White Bear Creek) is a 9.2-mile-long (14.8 km) tributary of the Lehigh River in Carbon County, Pennsylvania in the United States.

Summit Hill High School (Q7637814)
item type: school / school building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Summit Hill High School is a historic high school located at Summit Hill, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1911, and is a three-story, "H"-shaped, school building in the Renaissance Revival style. It is constructed of structural terra cotta and faced with Roman brick. It measures approximately 122 feet wide and 82 feet deep. The school closed in the late 1960s and was renovated into apartments in 1997.

NRHP reference number: 01000138

Lehigh Township (Q6518823)
item type: township of Pennsylvania
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Lehigh Township is a township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 479 at the 2010 census.

Beaver Creek (Q27989300)
item type: river
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Beaver Creek in Carbon County, Pennsylvania is an East-to-West running tributary of the Lehigh River giving name to and draining the southern terrains of Beaver Meadows into Black Creek. It rises 1,500 feet (460 m) Southeast of the intersection of Main Street and Lincoln Circle in Junedale, one unincorporated village (neighborhood) of Banks Township at the Northwestern corner of Carbon County, Pennsylvania, and runs nearly due East-northeast through the center of Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania 5.74 miles (9.24 km) to the approximate centerline of Weatherly, where it turns abruptly and runs due south 1.25 miles through the center of Weatherly where 7.0 miles (11.3 km) from its source, it merges with Quakake Creek, thereby forming Black Creek, Pennsylvania which turns abruptly east from its origin.

Nesquehoning High School (Q15261794)
item type: high school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Nesquehoning High School is a historic high school located at Nesquehoning, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1917 and 1919, and is a four-story, seven bay, school building in the Classical Revival style. It is constructed of structural terra cotta and faced with Roman brick. It measures 75 feet wide and 135 feet deep. The school closed in the 1960s and was renovated into apartments in 1998.

NRHP reference number: 03001187

East Penn Township (Q5329130)
item type: township of Pennsylvania
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

East Penn Township is a rural township in the rough uplands terrain of the eastern Mahoning Hills area of Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States; it has a complementary or sister township, West Penn Township, directly to the west in Schuylkill County. The township sits between two ridgelines of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, but with multiple hilltops, its terrain is unlike many nearby valley floors between similar ridgelines. The population was 2,881 at the 2010 United States Census, up from 2,461 at the 2000 census.

Lehigh River Gorge (Q16877907)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Lehigh River Gorge is a gorge in the Lehigh Gorge State Park, Luzerne & Carbon County, Pennsylvania.

Lausanne Township (Q6501990)
item type: township of Pennsylvania
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Lausanne Township is a township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States with an ancient heritage, dating back to 1808 when the first Lausanne settlement was organized with a local frontier government. The original population of Lausanne Landing was quite variable limited to a handful of year round settlers and varying groups of itinerant workmen from expeditions sent to log, mine, or build boats. The current town population was a similarly lean 237 at the 2010 census. The township was named after Lausanne, in Switzerland and the bowl shaped valley near its first settlement at Lausanne Landing has often been called the Switzerland of America.

Pleasant Corners, Carbon County, Pennsylvania (Q22083095)
item type: unincorporated community
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Pleasant Corners is an unincorporated community located in Mahoning Township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Pleasant Corners is located on Pennsylvania Route 902 between Normal Square and Lehighton.

USGS GNIS ID: 1184004

Quakake Tunnel (Q18337920)
item type: tunnel
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Quakake Tunnel (also known as the Meadow Tunnel or the Beaver Meadow Tunnel) is a mine drainage tunnel in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The tunnel is several thousand feet long and has a discharge of thousands of gallons per minute. It was the subject of an Operation Scarlift report. The tunnel is a major contributor of acid mine drainage to the watershed of the Lehigh River.

Panther Valley High School (Q7131810)
item type: high school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Panther Valley High School is a small public high school providing grades 7 to 12. It is the only high school for the Panther Valley School District. Panther Valley High School is located in the borough of Summit Hill with a mailing address of 912 Coal Region Way, Lansford, PA 18232. It serves students in both Carbon County and Schuylkill County. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2010, the school reported an enrollment of 488 pupils in grades 9th through 12th, with 219 pupils eligible for a federal free lunch. Panther Valley High School is a federal Title I school. The school employed 33 teachers yielding a student teacher ratio of 14:1. According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 10 teachers were rated "Non‐Highly Qualified" under No Child Left Behind.

website: http://www.panthervalley.org/Schools/HighSchool/highschool.htm

Towamensing Township (Q7829542)
item type: township of Pennsylvania
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Towamensing Township is a lightly populated rural township in eastern Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The Delaware Peoples name is eponymous and was once applied by the natives to the whole region of Carbon County and bits of the Poconos to the north (Luzerne County) and to Schuylkill County (southwest). The population was 4,477 at the 2010 census, up from 3,475 at the 2000 census. A portion of Beltzville State Park is in the township.

Kidder Township (Q6404663)
item type: township of Pennsylvania
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Kidder Township is a township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,935 at the 2010 census, up from 1,185 at the 2000 census.

Central Railroad of New Jersey Station (Q5061742)
item type: railway station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Central Railroad of New Jersey Station, also known as the Jersey Central Station and Jim Thorpe Station, is a historic railroad station located at Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by Wilson Brothers & Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and built in 1888 by the Central Railroad of New Jersey. It is a 1 1/2-story, five bay, red brick building in the Queen Anne style. It features a 3 1/2-story, cylindrical corner tower with a cylindrical roof.

NRHP reference number: 76001615

WJOB-FM (Q7951322)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WJOB-FM (93.3 FM) is a non-commercial radio station broadcasting an Urban contemporary format. Licensed in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, the station serves the Binghamton, New York area. The station is owned by The Broome County Urban League. 93.3 WJOB plays a mix of the most popular rhythm and blues, hip hop, rap and dance music. On Sunday mornings the station broadcasts gospel music

website: http://wjobfm.com/

Holiday Pocono (Q5900995)
item type: census-designated place / unincorporated community
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Holiday Pocono is a residential community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kidder Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 476.

USGS GNIS ID: 1212370

Packer Township (Q7122952)
item type: township of Pennsylvania
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Packer Township is a township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 998 at the 2010 census.

Hazle Creek (Q30066082)
item type: watercourse
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Hazle Creek is a tributary source stream of the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers, via Black Creek, Carbon County, which originates in southern Luzerne County on the east side of the saddle of an important mountain pass hosting a transportation infrastructure corridor. The creek's source area is located within the east-side neighborhoods of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The entire city is low lying relative to the surrounding mountainous Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians and historically was known as the "Great Swamp" and other names with either wilderness or swamp being appended—the whole area extending over 20 miles (32 km) to the Lehigh Gap was heavily forested with low-lying areas generally being swampy pinewood forests. Hazle Creek's source springs originate in the terrain along the upper edge of the Lehigh River drainage basin, TBDL ft above its mouth, and TBDL above mean sea level.

Turn Hole Tunnel (Q7855658)
item type: railway tunnel
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Turn Hole Tunnel is an abandoned railroad tunnel near Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Built by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, it carried part of the Lehigh and Susquehanna RR main line until 1912, and was used as part of a passing siding for several decades thereafter. It is now an attraction in Lehigh Gorge State Park.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: 1956 disestablishments in Pennsylvania
Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway (Q2589523)
item type: railroad line
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Mauch Chunk and Summit Railroad was a coal hauling railroad in the mountains of Pennsylvania that operated between 1828 and 1932. It was also the first operational US railway of any substantial length to carry paying passengers.

NRHP reference number: 76001616

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Defunct Pennsylvania railroads
Old Mauch Chunk Historic District (Q7084492)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Old Mauch Chunk Historic District is a national historic district located at Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 28 contributing buildings in the central business district of Jim Thorpe. It includes residential and commercial buildings in a number of popular architectural styles including Italianate. The original town was laid out in 1831 by noted civil engineer John A. Roebling. Notable buildings include The I.O.O.F. Hall (1844), Lehigh Coal and Navigation Building (1882), Jim Thorpe National Bank (1870s), Carbon County Courthouse (1894), Dimmick Memorial Library (1889), Capitol Theater (1882), 1855 School, Weiksner's Taproom (1860s), "Stone Row," Webster House, New American Hotel, and Hooven Mercantile Building. Located in the district and listed separately are the Asa Packer Mansion, Harry Packer Mansion, Carbon County Jail, Central Railroad of New Jersey Station, and St. Mark's Episcopal Church.

NRHP reference number: 77001134