Number Two Dam

Number Two Dam is a dam in Borough of Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Number Two Dam is situated nearby to the peak Bear Mountain, as well as near the hamlet Packerton.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Bear Mountain and Asa Packer Mansion.

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.

Asa Packer Mansion

Museum

Photo: Chris18240, Public domain.

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. Asa Packer Mansion is situated 1½ miles southwest of Number Two Dam.

Mauch Chunk station

Railway station

Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Central Railroad of New Jersey Station, also known as the Jersey Central Station and Jim Thorpe Station, is a historic railroad station in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Mauch Chunk station is situated 2 miles southwest of Number Two Dam.

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

Photo: Smallbones, CC0.

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. Packerton is situated 2 miles south of Number Two Dam.

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.

Number Two Dam

Type: Dam
Description: dam in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States of America; geonames ID = 5203990
Location: Borough of Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.88266° or 40° 52′ 58″ north

Longitude

-75.71523° or 75° 42′ 55″ west

Elevation

833 feet (254 metres)

Open location code

87G6V7MM+3W

OpenStreetMap ID

node 357354496

OpenStreetMap feature

waterway=dam

GeoNames ID

5203990

Wikidata ID

Q48994845

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In Other Languages

“Number Two Dam” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Number Two Dam (alihan sa tubig sa Estados Unidos, Pennsylvania, Carbon County, lat 40,88, long -75,71)”
Cebuano: “Number Two Dam”

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