USGS_relief-Broad_Mountain_and_Terrains_it_dominates_west_of_the_Lehigh_Gorge_and_north_of_Tamaqua,_Nesquehoning_and_Jim_Thorpe,_PA.png
Summary
Description USGS relief-Broad Mountain and Terrains it dominates west of the Lehigh Gorge and north of Tamaqua, Nesquehoning and Jim Thorpe, PA.png |
English:
This is overview of the mountainous region dominated by
Broad Mountain
in
Eastern Pennsylvania
(Center of image, right bank of Lehigh River, below
Weatherly, PA
) illustrating its role historically as a
barrier range
limiting transportation corridors in the area; the heartland of the Southeastern
Anthracite
Coal Region
.
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Source | USGS screen capture: Via http://nationalmap.gov → http://viewer.nationalmap.gov where I navigated to area of view. Used Microsoft's Snipping Tool to capture when frame would not let image be saved by url. | ||||
Author | Annotations, general knowledge, by Fra nkB | ||||
Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
CC-BY-SA-2.0
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Coordinates of Broad Mountain Tower, a summit of the mountain:
Camera location | 40° 52′ 11.28″ N, 75° 33′ 19.8″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 40.869800; -75.555500 |
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See also:
- File:Sources of Nesquehoning creek from hzlt93sw-Rot90cw.JPG and related maps for USGS topographical views.
- USGS GNIS data on Broad Mountain
• Other (1890s Topographic) maps of the same region useful for displaying the complex steep sided
drainage basins
and especially the ridges with the
drainage divides
, and the key railroad paths involving two counties above the historic
coal
mining
and
railroad
communities of:
Weatherly, PA
,
Beaver Meadows, PA
,
Delano, PA
,
Hometown, PA
,
Tamaqua, PA
,
Coaldale, PA
,
Lansford, PA
, and in, and influential in the bootstrapping of
the U.S.
Industrial Revolution
.
• Un-annotated version:
File:Sources of Nesquehoning creek from hzlt93sw map excerpt.jpg
• Annotated version:
File:Sources of Nesquehoning creek from hzlt93sw map excerpt, drainage divides antd-en.jpg
Tamaqua co-ords: 40° 47′ 55″ N, 75° 57′ 59″ W 40.798611, -75.966389
Broad Mountain co-ords:
- 405343N 0754944W Tower, Carbon County, Pennsylvania
- 405435N 0754824W Northern Peak, Carbon County
- 404649N 0760838W Southern Peak, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
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United States Geological Survey
, an agency of the
United States Department of the Interior
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