Leggetts Creek Shaft

Leggetts Creek Shaft is a quarry in City of Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. Leggetts Creek Shaft is situated nearby to the village Throop.

Type: Quarry
Description: mine in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Address: PA

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Viewmont Mall and Penn Foster High School.

Viewmont Mall

Shopping center

Viewmont Mall is a shopping mall located in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It is anchored by JCPenney, Macy's, Dick's House of Sport, and HomeGoods. Viewmont Mall is situated 1 mile north of Leggetts Creek Shaft.

Penn Foster High School

School

Penn Foster is a private online education provider based in the United States, offering high school, career training, and college-level programs. The organization originated as the International Correspondence Schools, founded in 1890 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Penn Foster High School is situated 1 mile west of Leggetts Creek Shaft.

Scranton State School for the Deaf

School

Scranton State School for the Deaf was a residential school for the deaf established in 1880 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. Its students ranged in age from birth to 21. Scranton State School for the Deaf is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Leggetts Creek Shaft.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dunmore and Throop.

Dunmore

Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dunmore is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, adjoining Scranton. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania and was settled in 1835 and incorporated in 1862.

Throop

Village

Photo: Smallbones, CC0.

Throop is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, adjoining Scranton. Formerly, coal mining and silk manufacturing provided employment for the people of Throop, who numbered 2,204 in 1900 and 5,133 in 1910. Throop is situated 2 miles east of Leggetts Creek Shaft.

Scranton

Photo: Vasiliymeshko, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Scranton is a city in Northeastern Pennsylvania. It is near Wilkes-Barre, and is the seventh most populous city in the state. Today, it is perhaps best known as the setting of the hit TV show "The Office" and the birthplace of Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States.

Leggetts Creek Shaft

Categories: mine and industry
Location: City of Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.44341° or 41° 26′ 36″ north

Longitude

-75.6538° or 75° 39′ 14″ west

Elevation

784 feet (239 metres)

Open location code

87H6C8VW+9F

OpenStreetMap ID

node 368990748

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

GeoNames ID

5197640

Wikidata ID

Q49425693

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“Leggetts Creek Shaft” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Leggetts Creek Shaft”

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