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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.
South Tamaqua is a village located along the Little Schuylkill River at the junctions of Routes 309 and 443 in West Penn Township, Pennsylvania, United States. It is split between the New Ringgold ZIP code of 17960 and that of Tamaqua ZIP code 18252, and served by the 386 exchange in area code 570 .
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km 2), all land. Hometown is located 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Tamaqua and 10 miles (16 km) south of Hazleton at the intersections of Route 54 and 309. Hometown's elevation is 1,129 feet (344 m) above sea level. It uses the Tamaqua zip code of 18252.
ZCTAs are generalized area representations of the United States Postal Service (USPS) ZIP code service areas, but are not the same as ZIP codes. Individual USPS ZIP codes can cross state, place, county, census tract, census block group and census block boundaries, so the Census Bureau asserts that "there is no correlation between ZIP codes and ...
ZIP Code: 18218. Area code(s) 570 and 272: FIPS code: 42-14600: ... 1805, in Tamaqua and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Burkardt Moser, the original settlers of Tamaqua ...
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Notable non-residential buildings include the Little Schuylkill Hotel (1827), White Swan (c. 1845), Washington House (c. 1842-1850), Shepp Building, Elks Lodge, Peoples Trust Company Building (c. 1915), Tamaqua National Bank (1908), First National Bank of Tamaqua (1905, 1919), U.S. Post Office (1932), Majestic Theater and Hotel, Hegarty ...
Swatara Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River, runs through Pine Grove. [4] [9]A 22-mile (35 km) feeder branch of the Union Canal connected the Swatara Creek at Pine Grove to Union Water Works between 1830 (or 1832) and 1862, until its destruction when the Swatara flooded in June 1862.