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Nesquehoning is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 3,336 at the 2020 census. [4]
Nesquehoning may refer to the following places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania: Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, a borough in Carbon County Nesquehoning High School, in the above borough; Nesquehoning Creek, a tributary of the Lehigh River; Nesquehoning Mountain, also known as Nesquehoning Ridge, a 15-17 mile long coal bearing ridge
Nesquehoning Creek is an east flowing 14.9-mile-long (24.0 km) [1] tributary of the Lehigh River in northeastern Pennsylvania in the United States. [2] Nesquehoning Creek joins the Lehigh River 2 miles (3.2 km) upstream of the borough of Jim Thorpe in Carbon County. [2]
The Nesquehoning Creek mouth issues behind a small river island and sits above the long curved lake-like upper pool of the Lehigh below the outlet of the gorge, and its delta's smoothly sloped sides made an attractive landing beach, giving name to the Inn.
Nesquehoning Mountain [3] or Nesquehoning Ridge [2] is a 15–17-mile-long (24–27 km) coal bearing ridge dividing the waters of Lehigh Valley to the north from the Schuylkill River valley and the several near parallel ridgelines of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians barrier range all local members of which run generally WSW-ENE in the greater overall area.
Nesquehoning High School is an historic, American high school that is located in Nesquehoning, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [ 1 ]
The Nesquehoning Valley Railroad Company, [1] herein called the Nesquehoning Valley Railroad (NVRR), is now a fallen flag standard-gauge, steam era shortline railroad built as a coal road to ship the Anthracite mined in the Southeastern Coal Region on either side of the Little Schuylkill River tributary Panther Creek and the history making coal towns of the Panther Creek Valley down the Lehigh ...
The Hauto Tunnel, dug in 1871–72, was a 1.1-mile-long (1.8 km) single-track railway tunnel crossing under the barrier ridge of Nesquehoning Mountain between Lansford, Pennsylvania, in the Panther Creek Valley and the Central Railroad of New Jersey trackage near the dam of the Hauto Reservoir impoundment about 1.3 miles (2.1 km) above Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania.