Pleasant Mount, Pennsylvania

Pleasant Mount, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
The welcome sign for the Village of Pleasant Mount.
Nickname(s):  Mount Pleasant, [1] Mt. Pleasant, [2] Pleasant Mt. [3]
Pleasant Mount, Pennsylvania Pleasant Mount's Location within Pennsylvania.
Coordinates: 41°44′23″N75°26′4″W / 41.73972°N 75.43444°W / 41.73972; -75.43444
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
U.S. Congressional District	PA-10
School District	Forest City Regional
County	Wayne
Magisterial District	22-3-04 [4]
Township	Mount Pleasant
Settled	June 1789 [5]
Founded by	Samuel Stanton [5]
Named after	Mount Pleasant Township
Elevation	1,982 [6]  ft (604 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (Eastern Daylight (EDT))
ZIP codes	18453 [3]
Area code	570
GNIS feature ID	1184047 [6]
FIPS code	42-127-51872 [7] -61344 [6]
Major Roads
Waterways	Biglow Lake, [8] Lackawaxen River (West Branch)

Pleasant Mount is an unincorporated community in Mount Pleasant Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Notable residents

• Daniel J. O'Neill, US Army major general ^[9]

References

1. White, Israel Charles; Dolph, John M. (1881). The Geology of Susquehanna County and Wayne County (Report). Vol. 23. Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. p. 59. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
2. White & Dolph. p. 170.
3. "Look up a ZIP Code". USPS.COM. USPS. 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
4. "District Magistrate". Wayne County, PA. Wayne County Courthouse. 2014. Archived from the original on November 27, 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
5. Whaley, Samuel (1856). History of the Township of Mount Pleasant, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. A Discourse Delivered on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 1855. New York: M. W. Dodd. p.  9.
6. "Pleasant Mount". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. August 2, 1979. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
7. U.S. Census Bureau. Census 2000. "Census Demographic Profiles, Mount Pleasant Township" (PDF). CenStats Databases. Retrieved January 30, 2016.^{[ dead link ]}
8. "Biglow Lake". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. August 2, 1979. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
9. "Obituary, Lieutenant General (Ret.) Daniel J. O'Neill". The Scranton Times-Tribune . Scranton, Pennsylvania. July 31, 2015. p. B8 – via Newspapers.com.