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Accident. On July 24, eighteen coal miners at the Quecreek Mine (/ kjuː.krik /) in Lincoln Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, owned by Black Wolf Coal Company, accidentally dug into the abandoned, poorly documented Saxman Coal / Harrison #2 Mine, flooding the room and pillar mine with an estimated 75 million US gallons (280,000 cubic ...
Somerset County: 1943 Submerged under the waters of Youghiogheny River Lake, but in 1999 receding water levels began to reveal parts of the town. [80] Sonesville: An obscure logging town. [53] Straight: Elk County: Submerged under the waters of East Branch Lake. [81] Stringtown: Greene County [citation needed] Tambine: Elk County: Jones ...
Website. www.co.somerset.pa.us. Somerset County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 74,129. [1] Its county seat is Somerset. [2] The county was created from part of Bedford County on April 17, 1795, and named after the county of Somerset in England.
January 10, 2008. Shade Furnace Archeological District, also known as Old Shade Furnace and Shade Forge, is a national historic district located at Shade Township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The district includes four contributing sites and two contributing objects. It encompasses the ruins of a countryside plantation style iron forge ...
UTC-4 (EDT) FIPS code. 42-111-23168. Elk Lick Township is a township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,264 at the 2020 census. [2] Mount Davis, the highest point in Pennsylvania, is located within the township.
Windber Historic District is a national historic district located at Paint Borough, Scalp Level, and Windber in Cambria County and Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 944 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site. It encompasses an area first developed by the Berwind-White Coal Company in 1897, and developed and between ...
Elk County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 30,990. [2] Its county seat is Ridgway. [3] The county was created on April 18, 1843, from parts of Jefferson, Clearfield, and McKean Counties.
GNIS feature ID. 1184535 [1] Quecreek is an unincorporated community and coal town in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was also known as Harrison. Quemahoning Creek Coal Company operated two mines in Quecreek in 1918. [2] The post office closed in 2005. [3] The 2002 Quecreek Mine rescue occurred nearby.