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The Green Tree facility provides and stores, digitally and in microfilm (aperture cards), [4] over 182,000 maps of abandoned mines. This repository contains maps of mine workings from the 1790s to the present day. [5] It serves as a point of reference for mine maps and other information for both surface and underground mines throughout the ...
The CONSOL Energy Mine Map Preservation Project is a project to preserve and digitize maps of underground coal mines in Southwestern Pennsylvania.. The project is a joint venture between the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the United States Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining, the University of Pittsburgh University Library System, and CONSOL Energy.
An 1836 map of Pennsylvania's counties. The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, used by the U.S. government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry. FIPS codes are five-digit numbers; for Pennsylvania the codes start with 42 and are completed with the three-digit county code.
Morea is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. [3] Before that, it was part of the New Boston-Morea CDP. Morea is in northern Schuylkill County, in the southwestern part of Mahanoy Township.
Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Steve Limani said early Wednesday that the abandoned mine in Unity Township where rescue crews are working to locate 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard is becoming ...
Samuel S. Lewis State Park: York County: 85 acres (34 ha) 1954: None: Park named for its donor, a Secretary of the Department of Forests and Waters; now popular for star gazing. Sand Bridge State Park: Union County: 3 acres (1 ha) 1978: Rapid Run: This is the smallest state park in Pennsylvania, a day use picnic area on PA 192. Shawnee State ...
The last of the deep coal mines closed in the early 1950s. Mine #1 closed in 1951. As the demand for coal continued to slacken, RI&C shut down in 1956 along with the EBT and both were sold to the Kovalchick Salvage Company of Indiana, Pennsylvania. Limited deep mining resumed under contractors and contract surface mining continued into the 1990s.
39°47'45.6"N 80°09'24.6"W The Cumberland Mine Railroad is a private carrier mine railroad serving the Cumberland Coal Resources mine near Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Operations on the mine and associated railroad began in November 1976. The line was originally developed by United States Steel as a source of steam coal for export to Canada ...