Walcksville
Walcksville is a hamlet in Franklin Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Walcksville is situated nearby to the hamlet Indian Hills, as well as near Long Run.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bear Mountain.
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 west of Walcksville.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Harrity and Packerton.
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 2 miles south of Walcksville.
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 3 miles west of Walcksville.
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.
Walcksville
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: Franklin Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.86914° or 40° 52′ 9″ northLongitude
-75.66965° or 75° 40′ 11″ westElevation
686 feet (209 metres)Open location code
87G6V89J+M4OpenStreetMap ID
node 158645106OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
5217765
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