Mauch Chunk Creek

Mauch Chunk Creek is a 9.2-mile-long tributary of the Lehigh River in Carbon County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is dammed to form Mauch Chunk Lake near the borough of Summit Hill.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Asa Packer Mansion and Harry Packer Mansion.

Asa Packer Mansion

Museum

Asa Packer Mansion

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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.

Harry Packer Mansion

Guest house

Harry Packer Mansion

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.

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 2 miles east of Mauch Chunk Creek.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jim Thorpe and Packerton.

Jim Thorpe

Photo: Ram-Man, GFDL.

Jim Thorpe is a borough in the Coal Region, near Lehighton, Allentown and the Lehigh Valley, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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.

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.

Mauch Chunk Creek

Type: Stream
Description: river in the United States of America
Categories: river and body of water
Location: Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.86315° or 40° 51′ 47″ north

Longitude

-75.73741° or 75° 44′ 15″ west

Elevation

525 feet (160 metres)

Open location code

87G6V777+72

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Wikidata ID

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Venetian—“Mauch Chunk Creek” goes by many names.

Catalan: “Mauch Chunk Creek”
Cebuano: “Mauch Chunk Creek”
Slovenian: “Mauch Chunk Creek”
Venetian: “Mauch Chunk”

Localities in the Area

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