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| Keywords: Sources of Nesquehoning creek from hzlt93sw map excerpt.jpg en Re-rotated unrotated re-upload of File Sources of Nesquehoning creek from hzlt93sw-Rot90cw JPG bullR This map serves the same function but with the sources of the Nesquehoning written sideways bullR This version shows various drainage basins the drainage divides between the Lehigh River basin and the Little Schuylkill River basin in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians barrier ridge folded landform landscapes of this important industrial region and the drainage/river systems which inhibited transportation bullR This orientation is useful for displaying the complex rail network worked into the mountainous terrain still important and in use today the key drainage basin s and especially the ridges with the drainage divides involving two counties above the historic Anthracite coal mining and rail transport railroad communities of <br> Weatherly PA Beaver Meadows PA Delano PA Hometown PA Tamaqua PA Coaldale PA Lansford PA and extremely influential in the bootstrapping of United States the U S Industrial Revolution ---- Tamaqua co-ords 40° 47 ² 55 ³ N 75° 57 ² 59 ³ W 40 798611 -75 966389 Broad Mountain Lehigh Valley Broad Mountain co-ords 405343N 0754944W Tower Carbon County Pennsylvania 405435N 0754824W Northern Peak Carbon County 404649N 0760838W Southern Peak Schuylkill County Pennsylvania 2016-09-10 USGS 1893 topological maps Fabartus PD-USGov other versions thumb Derivation -1st annotated version Prominent in the center is w Broad Mountain Lehigh Valley part of which is partially off the right edge Paralleling Broad Mountain are Nesquehonning Ridge Pisgah Ridge joined in the high prominence Mount Pisgah Carbon County Pennsylvania Mount Pisgah looming over historic Mauch Chunk PA Jim Thorpe across the Lehigh River Lower Lehigh River Lehigh Canal Lower Lehigh Canal headend terminus from the higher Bear Mountain Lehigh Valley together framing the Panther Creek Valley terminating in Tamaqua PA and Mauch Chunk Ridge ; the area first exploited for Anthracite mining in Pennsylvania 1st Annotated version same map shown at right File Sources of Nesquehoning creek from hzlt93sw map excerpt drainage divides antd-en jpg File Sources_of_Nesquehoning_creek_from_hzlt93sw_map_excerpt jpg File Sources of Nesquehoning creek from hzlt93sw-Rot90cw JPG bullR See also Modern relief map covering same terrains File USGS relief-Broad Mountain and Terrains it dominates west of the Lehigh Gorge and north of Tamaqua Nesquehoning and Jim Thorpe PA png bullR Other annotated versions may follow as article about the area are developed // <B>Fra</B><font color green >nkB</font> 19 31 21 December 2016 UTC Landforms of Luzerne County Pennsylvania Landforms of Carbon County Pennsylvania Landforms of Schuylkill County Pennsylvania Lehigh Valley Lehigh Valley railroads Nesquehoning Creek 1893 maps of Pennsylvania Northeastern Pennsylvania Topomaps USGS MRC40075-series of corners N40xW75 to N41xW76 Nesquehoning 1 | ||||
