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Wilkes-Barre (/ ˈ w ɪ l k s b ɛər i / WILKS-bair-ee) is a city in and the county seat of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States.Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in the 2020 census.
In 1806, a large portion of the territory broke away from the township to form the borough of Wilkes-Barre. Today, the township of Wilkes-Barre occupies a 1-by-3-mile (1.6 by 4.8 km) strip of land adjacent to the southeast border of what is now the city of Wilkes-Barre. Coal mining was a prominent industry in and around Wilkes-Barre Township in ...
The county seat and most populous city is Wilkes-Barre. [1] Other populous communities include Hazleton, Kingston, Nanticoke, and Pittston. Luzerne County is included in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a total population of 555,426 as of 2017. The county is part of the Northeast Pennsylvania ...
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted. There are 56 municipalities classified as cities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1] Each city is further classified based on population, with Philadelphia being of the first class, Pittsburgh of the second class, Scranton of the second class A, and the remaining 53 cities being of the third class.
Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania and sixth-largest city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797, and the center of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metropolitan area, the state's largest metropolitan statistical area and nation's seventh-largest with a population of 6,245,051 Pittsburgh, the second-largest city in Pennsylvania, and the center of Greater ...
The River Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.The district includes 215 contributing buildings near downtown in Wilkes-Barre on Franklin St., River St., W. River St., W. Jackson St., W. Union St., W. Market St., W. Northampton St., W. South St., and W. Ross, St., and Barnum Pl. [2] The buildings were built between 1860 ...
Mar. 29—WILKES-BARRE TWP. — A project to convert a former high school on Casey Avenue into an apartment building for senior citizens is nearing completion. Developer Joe Rinkus is in the final ...
PA 29 south (South Cross Valley Expressway) to I-81 – Nanticoke, Wilkes-Barre: Interchange, north end of PA 29 concurrency: Kingston: 182.4: 293.5: PA 309 north (North Cross Valley Expressway) – Luzerne, Dallas: PA 309 exit 5; access to northbound PA 309 and access from southbound PA 309: West Pittston: 188.6: 303.5: PA 92 north (Exeter ...