Strong is a census-designated place in southeastern Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in Mt. Carmel Township at the junction of Routes 54 and 61. The North Branch Shamokin Creek flows southwestward through Strong into the Shamokin Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River. It is served by the Mount Carmel post office, which uses the zip code of 17851. As of the 2010 census, the population was 147 residents.
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Northumberland County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 91,647. Its county seat is Sunbury.
Harris Township is a civil township of Menominee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,113 at the 2020 census.
Rural Valley is a borough in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 826 at the 2020 census.
Pillow is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 291 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Mount Carmel is a borough in Northumberland County, located in the Coal Heritage Region of Central Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River Valley, United States. The population was 5,725 at the 2020 census. It is located 88 miles (141 km) northwest of Philadelphia and 71 miles (114 km) northeast of Harrisburg, in the Coal Region. It is completely encircled by Mount Carmel Township.
Mount Carmel Township is a township that is located in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The population at the time of the 2010 Census was 3,139, which was an increase over the figure of 2,701 that was tabulated during the 2000.
Shamokin Township is a township in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population at the 2010 Census was 2,407, an increase over the figure of 2,159 tabulated in 2000.
Snydertown is a borough in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 339.
Cass Township is a township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. Formed in 1848 from part of Branch Township, it is named for Lewis Cass.
Monroe Township is a township in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,145 at the 2020 census.
Varna is a hamlet located in Tompkins County, New York, United States. It is within the Town of Dryden.
The Shamokin Valley Railroad is a short line railroad that operates 27 miles of track in southern Northumberland County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is part of the North Shore Railroad System.
Shamokin Creek is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately 32.4 miles (52.1 km) long and flows through Mount Carmel, Mount Carmel Township, Coal Township, Shamokin, Ralpho Township, Shamokin Township, Snydertown, Upper Augusta Township, and Sunbury. The watershed of the creek has an area of 137 square miles (350 km2). It experiences significant impacts by abandoned mine drainage and many abandoned mine drainage discharges are in its watershed. Various other impairments also affect parts of the creek's watershed. Shamokin Creek is in the Appalachian Mountains section of the Ridge and Valley physiographic province. Rock formations consisting of sandstone, shale, and anthracite deposits occur in the watershed.
Pike Township is located in Livingston County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 240 and it contained 108 housing units.
Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit #16 (CSIU), located in the Milton Industrial Park, Milton, Pennsylvania, was created by the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1971 as one of 29 Intermediate Units in the commonwealth. Intermediate units serve a given geographic area's educational needs and function as a step of organization above that of a public school district, but below that of the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The state's goal is for IU's to meet student and community needs in a cost-effective manner by providing services best offered on a regional basis such as special education, technical education, services to public and nonpublic schools. IN 2016-17 the CSIU16 budget is $76.7 million for programs and services and $1,073,846 General operating budget.
Oakley Landing is an unincorporated community in Richmond County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is located eight miles south of Farnham at the southern tip of Hales Point, close to Tarpley Point, on the Rappahannock river.
Atlas is a census-designated place located in Mount Carmel Township, Northumberland County in the state of Pennsylvania. The community is located very close to the borough of Mount Carmel along Pennsylvania Route 61. As of the 2010 census the population was 809 residents.
Tharptown (Uniontown) is a census-designated place located in Coal Township, Northumberland County in the state of Pennsylvania. The community is located just to the north of the city of Shamokin. As of the 2020 census the population was 487 residents.
Mescal Arroyo is an arroyo, a tributary to Ciénega Creek in the Santa Cruz River watershed. Its mouth is at its confluence with Cienega Creek within the Cienega Creek Natural Preserve in Pima County, Arizona. Its source is at 31°59′26″N110°26′17″W, to the east at the head of the valley near Mescal in Cochise County, Arizona.
North Branch Shamokin Creek is a tributary of Shamokin Creek in Columbia County and Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is approximately 4.8 miles (7.7 km) long and flows through Conyngham Township in Columbia County and Mount Carmel Township in Northumberland County. The watershed of the creek has an area of 5.73 square miles (14.8 km2). The entirety of the creek is designated as an impaired waterbody due to metals from abandoned mine drainage. It is acidic, but its pH has been increasing. Underground mine complexes occur within the watershed. The creek has a permeable streambed and experiences flow loss.