Borough of Jim Thorpe
Borough of Jim Thorpe is a locality in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Borough of Jim Thorpe is situated nearby to the locality Nesquehoning Junction, as well as near Packerton Junction.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Asa Packer Mansion and Bear Mountain.
Asa Packer Mansion
Museum
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The Asa Packer Mansion is a historic house museum on Packer Road in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, United States. Completed in 1861, it was the home of Asa Packer, a coal and railroad magnate, philanthropist, and founder of Lehigh University.
Bear Mountain
Peak
Bear Mountain, in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania several miles above the Lehigh Gap, is a steep-sided east bank ridgeline running about 9.96 miles between the hairpin turn in the Lehigh the Lenape Amerindian people visualized as a bear's snout, along many water gap gorges, to the steep face dropping down to the Penn Forest Reservoir. Bear Mountain is situated 2½ miles east of Borough of Jim Thorpe.
Harry Packer Mansion
Guest house
Photo: KForce, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Harry Packer Mansion, is a historic home which is located in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located in the Old Mauch Chunk Historic District, this residence was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1974.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jim Thorpe and Lehighton.
Jim Thorpe
Jim Thorpe is a borough in the Coal Region, near Lehighton, Allentown and the Lehigh Valley, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Lehighton
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lehighton is a borough in the Coal Region, near Jim Thorpe, Allentown and the Lehigh Valley, in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States of America.
Packerton
Hamlet
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Packerton is a village located in Mahoning Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River and U.S. Route 209 between Jim Thorpe and Lehighton. It uses the Lehighton ZIP code of 18235.
Borough of Jim Thorpe
- Type: Locality with 4,780 residents
- Location: Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.8712° or 40° 52′ 16″ northLongitude
-75.7434° or 75° 44′ 36″ westPopulation
4,780Elevation
823 feet (251 metres)Open location code
87G6V7C4+FMGeoNames ID
5195458
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