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Wilkes-Barre Township is a township with home rule status in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is adjacent to the city of Wilkes-Barre. The population of the township was 3,219 at the 2020 census.
Wilkes-Barre ( / ˈwɪlksbɛər / WILKS-bair or /- bɛəri / -bair-ee) is a city in and the county seat of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in the 2020 census. It is the second-largest city, after Scranton, in the Scranton ...
PA 15. → PA 16. ← PA 438. PA 439. → PA 441. Pennsylvania Route 115 ( PA 115) is a 35.7-mile-long (57.5 km) north–south state highway in eastern Pennsylvania. It stretches from U.S. Route 209 (US 209) in Brodheadsville, Monroe County, northwest to Interstate 81 (I-81) and PA 309 near Wilkes-Barre in Luzerne County.
The Giants Despair Hillclimb is a hillclimb which was established in 1906 in Laurel Run, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, just southeast of its border to Wilkes-Barre Township. The contest was first run in conjunction with Wilkes-Barre 's centennial celebration. [3]
This article is about the valley region in Pennsylvania. For other uses, see Wyoming Valley (disambiguation). Wyoming Valley. Metropolitan Statistical Area. Scranton–Wilkes-Barre, PA MSA. Clockwise from top left: Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, and Hazleton.
The Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railroad, more commonly known as the Laurel Line, was a Pennsylvania third rail electric interurban streetcar line which operated commuter train service from 1903 to 1952, and freight service until 1976. Its main line ran from Scranton to Wilkes-Barre.
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport (IATA: AVP, ICAO: KAVP, FAA LID: AVP) is mostly in Pittston Township, Pennsylvania, about 7 miles (11 km) from Scranton and 8 mi (13 km) from Wilkes-Barre. It spans the border between Luzerne County and Lackawanna County, and is owned and operated by the two counties.
May 6—WILKES-BARRE — The Downtown Main Street Arts District Block Party takes place Saturday, May 11, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. with fun, food, and family-friendly entertainment on South ...
He left Derby in 1806 and in 1807 mined 56 tons of coal in Plymouth, Pa. at the old mine now rented to the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., and known as the Smith red ash coal." [37] According to Hendrick B. Wright, in the fall of 1807, Abijah Smith purchased an ark from John P. Arndt , a Wilkes-Barre merchant, which Arndt had used for the ...
The Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton Railway (also known as the Cannon Ball [1]) was an electric railway in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania connecting the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton. It operated from 1903 to 1933 using a third rail and had no grade crossings. It was approximately thirty miles long and had one tunnel between Warrior Run and ...