Pennsylvania topographic maps

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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Schnecksville has a total area of 2.7 square miles (7.0 km2), of which 0.01 square miles (0.02 km2), or 0.28%, are water. Schnecksville sits on a ridge at an elevation of about 660 feet (200 m) above sea level. To the west, water flows to Jordan Creek, while to the east…

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The Wyoming Valley, also referred to as the Anthracite Valley Section of Pennsylvania, runs directly through Luzerne County. It extends from the northeastern border (with Lackawanna County) to the western border (with Columbia County). The valley is flat (at the Susquehanna Basin) and rises from 512 to 2,000…

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Even more significant to the development of Bridgeville was the advent of commercial coal mining. The Pittsburgh Coal Seam was perhaps the most valuable mineral resource in North America in the late 1800s. Ranging from forty inches to six feet thick it was located at an elevation that produced outcroppings on…

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Pennsylvania Route 16 passes through Blue Ridge Summit, leading east down the mountain to Emmitsburg, Maryland, and west downhill to Waynesboro. The highway elevation at Blue Ridge Summit is 1,330 feet (410 m), compared to elevations of 500 and 700 feet (150 and 210 m) east and west of the mountain,…

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The land that became Reserve Township was part of a 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) tract that the Pennsylvania General Assembly reserved in 1783 for state use, from which the township later took its name. Surveyed by Alexander McClean in 1785, the tract extended at least one mile inland from the Allegheny and Ohio…

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