Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States

Details for Monroe County

Name

Monroe County

Place Type

County

Located in

Pennsylvania, United States

County Seat

Stroudsburg

Coordinates

Latitude		41.2503691		41° 15' 01.3" N
Longitude		-75.1496218		75° 08' 58.6" W

Population

95,709

Elevation

428 m

Surrounding Counties

Pike N
Sussex (New Jersey) E
Warren (New Jersey) S
Northampton S
Carbon W
Luzerne W
Lackawanna NW
Wayne N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1209184

Histopolis Place ID

109760047

Updated Sep 3, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Monroe County

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

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=45 (1 May 2011)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Pennsylvania > Monroe County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Pennsylvania > Monroe County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/PA/Monroe/ (18 Apr 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Monroe County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=14461&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (13 Oct 2008)

Monroe County, Pennsylvania PA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Monroe 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=14461 (22 Nov 2008)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=2285 (10 Sep 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Monroe 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/MN.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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

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

Monroe County, PA GenWeb Page [Monroe County PAGenWeb]
http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pamonroe/ (21 Sep 2010)

Monroe County PA USGenWeb Archives Index Page [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/monroep.html (10 Feb 2010)

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Townships and Boroughs of Monroe County

17 Townships, 4 Boroughs (Township is assumed unless noted)

Barrett	Chestnuthill	Coolbaugh	Delaware Water Gap (borough)
East Stroudsburg (borough)	Eldred	Hamilton	Jackson
Middle Smithfield	Mount Pocono (borough)	Pahaquarry (historical township)	Paradise
Pocono	Polk	Price	Ross
Smithfield	Stroud	Stroudsburg (borough)	Tobyhanna
Tunkhannock

Cities of Monroe County

4 Boroughs, 122 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Analomink	Appenzell	Arlington Heights	Arrowhead Lake
Barton Glen	Bartonsville	Blakeslee	Blakeslee Estates
Blue Mountain Pines	Bossardsville	Brainerd Center	Briar Crest Woods
Brodheadsville	Buck Hill Falls	Camelot Forest	Canadensis
Castle Garden	Castle Rock Acres	Coolbaugh	Coveville
Craigs Meadow	Crescent Lake	Cresco	Delaware Water Gap (borough)
Dotters Corners	Dutotsburg (historical u.p.)	East Stroudsburg (borough)	East Swiftwater
Easton Anglers	Echo Lake	Effort	El-Do Lake
Emerald Lakes	Fernridge	Fiddletown	Forest Glen
Foxtown Hill	Frutchey	Gilbert	Gravel Place
Hamilton Square	Henryville	Indian Mountain Lake	Jackson
Jonas	Kahkhout Mountain	Kellersville	Kemmererville
Kingswood Estates	Kresgeville	Kunkletown	Lake Naomi Estates
Little Summit	Locust Lakes Village	Long Pond	Lower Tannersville
Marshalls Creek	McIlhaney	McMichael	Mechanicsville
Meisertown	Merwinsburg	Minisink Hills	Monroe Lake
Mount Pocono (borough)	Mount Zion	Mountain Top Estates	Mountainhome
Mushroom Farms	Neola	North Water Gap	Oak Grove
Paradise Crossing	Paradise Valley	Parkside	Pleasant Valley Estates
Pleasant View Lake	Pocono Country Place	Pocono Farms East	Pocono Heights
Pocono Lake	Pocono Laurel Lake	Pocono Manor	Pocono Pines
Pocono Playhouse	Pocono Summit	Pocono Summit Estates	Poplar Bridge
Preserve	Red Ledge Manor Estates	Reeders	Resica Falls
Robin Hood Lakes	Ross Common	Rossland	Sandhill
Saylorsburg	Sciota	Scotrun	Shawnee on Delaware
Shoemakers	Ski Haven Lake Estates	Skytop	Smith Gap
Snow Hill Falls	Snydersville	Spruce Hill	Stillwater Lake Estates
Stormville	Stroudsburg (borough)	Sun Valley (Chestnuthill Township)	Sun Valley (Tunkhannock Township)
Swiftwater	Tannersville	Tobyhanna	Turn Villa
Wagners	Wagners Forest Park	Warnertown	Weir Lake
Wigwam Lake Estates	Wilderness Acres	Winona Lakes	Winona Lakes
Wiscasset	Wooddale

Cemeteries of Monroe County

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

Analomink United Methodist Churchyard	Appenzell	Buena Vista	Cherry Valley United Methodist Church
Christ Hamilton Lutheran Church	Dotters Corners	Effort	Franklin Hill
Green Ridge	Hamilton Square Church (*)	Lake View	Laurelwood
Locust Ridge	Middle Creek	Mount Calvary	Mount Eaton
Mount Zion	Mt. Calvary (*)	Mt. Zion (*)	Prospect
Saint Johns (Hamilton Township)	Saint Johns (Jackson Township)	Saint Marks Church	Sand Hill
Saylorsburg Lake View (*)	St. Johns (* Hamilton Township)	St. Johns (* Jackson Township)	Stroud
Stroudsburg	Swiftwater	White Gap	Zimmerman Lutheran Church (*)

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