Packerton
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement in Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Also known as: “Packerton, PA” and “Packerton, Pennsylvania”
- Neighbors: Jim Thorpe
Places of Interest
Highlights include Asa Packer Mansion and Bear Mountain.
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.
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 1½ miles northeast of Packerton.
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.
Harrity
Hamlet
Harrity is a village in Franklin Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania on the Pohopoco Creek, which flows westward from Beltzville Lake into the Lehigh River to the south of the village in Parryville. Harrity is situated 3 miles east of Packerton.
Packerton
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Mahoning Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.85509° or 40° 51′ 18″ northLongitude
-75.71908° or 75° 43′ 9″ westElevation
745 feet (227 metres)Open location code
87G6V74J+29OpenStreetMap ID
node 157600107OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to French—“Packerton” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “帕克頓”
- French: “Packerton”
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