Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "Coal towns in Pennsylvania" The following 81 pages are in this category, out of 81 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
A Welsh miner in a coal mine in Pennsylvania's Coal Region in 1910. By the 18th century, the Susquehannock Native American tribe that had inhabited the region was reduced 90 percent [2] in three years of a plague of diseases and possibly war, [2] opening up the Susquehanna Valley and all of Pennsylvania to European settlers.
Counties constituting the Coal Region of Pennsylvania. The Coal Region is a term used to refer to an area of Northeastern Pennsylvania in the central Appalachian Mountains. The region is home to the largest known deposits of anthracite coal in the world with an estimated a reserve of seven billion tons. Schuylkill; Carbon; Northumberland ...
Pages in category "Municipalities of the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region is in the Valley and Ridge Province of the Appalachian Mountains, with the coal located in the folded and faulted terrain of the Province. The anthracite fields are maintained in synclinal basins that are surrounded by sandstone ridges, which help to “protect” the anthracite.
The Pittsburgh coal seam is the thickest and most extensive coal bed in the Appalachian Basin; [1] hence, it is the most economically important coal bed in the eastern United States. The Upper Pennsylvanian Pittsburgh coal bed of the Monongahela Group is extensive and continuous, extending over 11,000 mi 2 through 53 counties.
Coaldale sits atop one of the richest coal seams in the eastern end of the southern Coal Region, which is still being exploited by a successor company of the LC&N (called the Old Company in the valley), the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company (or the New Company). Coaldale's elevation is 1050 feet above sea level.
Map showing Tamaqua at the confluence of the Schuylkill River with Tamaqua Gap, which separates Nesquehoning Mountain to the east and Sharp Mountain across the gap to the west. Tamaqua (/ t ə ˈ m ɑː k w ə /, Delaware: tëmakwe) [5] is a borough in eastern Schuylkill County in the Coal Region of Pennsylvania, United States.