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File:South Fork, PA (1), Aug. 2024.jpg. ... English: Photo of northbound Main Street in South Fork, Pennsylvania. Photo taken looking northwest from Lake Street.
South Fork is located in south-central Cambria County at (40.365042, -78.790474), [6] in the valley of the Little Conemaugh River at the confluence of its South U.S. Route 219, a four-lane expressway, passes just east of the borough and leads 10 miles (16 km) north to Ebensburg, the Cambria County seat.
A modern view of the South Fork Dam. The large gap overlooked by the two wooden terraces pictured is the breach that caused the Johnstown Flood.. The South Fork Dam was an earthenwork dam forming Lake Conemaugh (formerly Western Reservoir, also known as the Old Reservoir and Three Mile Dam, a misnomer), [1] an artificial body of water near South Fork, Pennsylvania, United States.
The remaining abutment of the South Fork Dam with the US-219 highway bridge downstream in the background. The city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania was founded in 1800 by Swiss immigrant Joseph Johns (anglicized from "Schantz") where the Stonycreek and Little Conemaugh rivers joined to form the Conemaugh River.
Feb. 13—SOUTH FORK, Pa. — Retired naval fighter pilot Mark Kohart moved back home to South Fork with intentions to "retire, retire," he said. But he's served as South Fork Borough Council ...
The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club was a Pennsylvania corporation that operated an exclusive and secretive retreat at a mountain lake near South Fork, Pennsylvania. Its members were more than 50 extremely wealthy industrialists and their families. Most were based in Pittsburgh, the center of steel and related industries.
The South Fork Fire scorched 13,921 acres and the Salt Fire burned 4,876 acres, read a post on the Village of Ruidoso Facebook page. Zero containment was listed on both blazes.
The Johnstown Flood National Memorial is a unit of the United States National Park Service. [2] [3] Established in 1964 [4] through legislation signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, [5] [6] it pays tribute to the thousands of victims of the Johnstown Flood, who were injured or killed on May 31, 1889 when the South Fork Dam ruptured.