Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States

Details for Carbon County

Name

Carbon County

Place Type

County

Located in

Pennsylvania, United States

County Seat

Jim Thorpe

Coordinates

Latitude		41.1253621		41° 07' 31.3" N
Longitude		-75.6746349		75° 40' 28.7" W

Population

56,846

Elevation

468 m

Surrounding Counties

Lackawanna N
Monroe E
Northampton SE
Lehigh S
Schuylkill SW
Luzerne NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1213664

Histopolis Place ID

127531306

Updated Sep 3, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Carbon County

11 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Carbon County, Pennsylvania Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Carbon County, Pennsylvania
http://www.interment.net/us/pa/carbon.htm (16 May 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Pennsylvania > Carbon County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Pennsylvania > Carbon County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/PA/Carbon/ (7 Jun 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=2253 (8 Sep 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Pennsylvania > Carbon County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Pennsylvania > Carbon County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/PA/Carbon/cem/ (3 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Carbon County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=13689&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (16 Nov 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Carbon County, Pa. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CB.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Pennsylvania Gravestone Photo Project - Cemetery Index [Pennsylvania Gravestone Photos]
Research your Pennsylvania ancestors and family history by searching our online database of Pennsylvania gravestone photos. Locate Pennsylvania gravestone images of your descendants and discover your Pennsylvania roots.
http://pennsylvaniagravestones.org/cemeteries.php?selected_cid=13 (3 May 2011)

The Cemeteries of Carbon County
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mccem/ (22 Dec 2008)

Carbon County, Pennsylvania PA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Carbon County, Pennsylvania PA, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=13689 (22 Nov 2008)

Carbon County, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_County,_Pennsylvania (23 Jul 2010)

Carbon Archives - Cemeteries [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/carbon/cemet.htm (12 Dec 2009)

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Townships and Boroughs of Carbon County

11 Townships, 12 Boroughs (Borough is assumed unless noted)

Banks (township)	Beaver Meadows	Bowmanstown	East Penn (township)
East Side	Franklin (township)	Jim Thorpe	Kidder (township)
Lansford	Lausanne (township)	Lehigh (township)	Lehighton
Lower Towamensing (township)	Mahoning (township)	Nesquehoning	Packer (township)
Palmerton	Parryville	Penn Forest (township)	Summit Hill
Towamensing (township)	Weatherly	Weissport

Cities of Carbon County

12 Boroughs, 68 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Albrightsville	Aquashicola	Ashfield	Audenried
Balliet	Beaver Meadows (borough)	Beltzville	Big Creek
Black Creek Junction	Bloomingdale	Bowmanstown (borough)	Bridgeport
Buck Mountain	Christian Corner	Christmans	Christmansville
Coxes Village	Drakes Creek	Dry Tavern	East Side (borough)
East Weissport	Gerhards	Germans	Hacklebernie
Harrity	Hauto	Hazard	Hickory Run (historical u.p.)
Hickory Run	Holiday Poconos	Hudsondale	Indian Hills
Jamestown	Jim Thorpe (borough)	Jonesville	Junedale
Kittatinny	Lake Harmony	Lansford (borough)	Lehighton (borough)
Leonardsville	Leslie Run	Leviston	Little Gap
Lizard Creek Junction	Long Run	Meckesville	Mertz Town
Mud Run	Nesquehoning (borough)	Nesquehoning Junction	New Columbus
New Mahoning	Normal Square	North Weissport	Packerton
Packerton Junction	Palmerton (borough)	Palmerton East	Parryville (borough)
Penn Haven Junction	Pocono Mountain Lake Estates	Rockport	Saylorsville
Spilt Rock	Split Rock	Stemlersville	Summit Hill (borough)
Sunny Rest Lodge	Towamensing Trails	Trachsville	Tresckow
Union Hill	Unionville	Walcksville	Walkton
Weather	Weatherly (borough)	Weissport (borough)	West Bowmans

Cemeteries of Carbon County

28 Cemeteries, 7 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Ben Salem	Bowmanstown	Evergreen	German
Gnaden Huetten (*)	Gnadenhuetten (*)	Grand Army of the Republic	Hartz
Horn, Steward and Gerhard (*)	Hudsondale (*)	Huetten	Immaculate Conception
Jim Thorpe Tomb	Laurytown Methodist Episcopal	Lehighton	Little White Church
Long Run	Mauch Chunk	New Dinkey Memorial	Old Albrightsville
Old Reed	Our Lady of Mount Carmel	Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (*)	Packer
Packerton	Parryville	Protestant	Saint Johns Church
Saint Matthew’s (*)	Saint Paul’s Lutheran And Reformed Church	Salem Reformed Church	St. Johns Church (*)
Summit Hill Presbyterian (historical cemetery)	Towamensing	Zimmerman

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