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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 4,510 residents
- Description: borough and county seat of Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “East Mauch Chunk”, “Jim Thorpe, PA”, “Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania”, “Machk Tschunk”, “Macht Tschunk”, and “Mauch Chunk”
- Postal code: 18229
Places of Interest
Highlights include Asa Packer Mansion and Harry Packer Mansion.
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.
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 Lehighton and Packerton.
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.
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.
Jim Thorpe
- Categories: borough of Pennsylvania, county seat, and locality
- Location: Borough of Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.8636° or 40° 51′ 49″ northLongitude
-75.7387° or 75° 44′ 19″ westPopulation
4,510Elevation
722 feet (220 metres)United Nations Location Code
US JTPOpen location code
87G6V776+CGOpenStreetMap ID
node 158625718OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Jim Thorpe” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جيم ثورب”
- Basque: “Jim Thorpe”
- Bulgarian: “Джим Торп”
- Cebuano: “Jim Thorpe”
- Chechen: “Джим-Торп”
- Chinese: “Jim Thorpe”
- Chinese: “吉姆索普”
- Cornish: “Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvani”
- Cornish: “Jim Thorpe”
- Dagbani: “Jim Thorpe”
- Dutch: “Jim Thorpe”
- French: “Jim Thorpe”
- German: “Jim Thorpe”
- German: “Mauch Chunk”
- Gilaki: “جیم ثؤرپ (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “جیم ثؤرپ”
- Haitian: “Jim Thorpe, Pennsilvani”
- Haitian: “Jim Thorpe”
- Hungarian: “Jim Thorpe”
- Irish: “Jim Thorpe”
- Italian: “Jim Thorpe”
- Japanese: “ジム・ソープ”
- Ladin: “Jim Thorpe”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Jim Thorpe”
- Pennsylvania German: “Jim Thorpe, Pennsilfaani”
- Pennsylvania German: “Jim Thorpe”
- Portuguese: “Jim Thorpe”
- Russian: “Джим Торпе”
- Russian: “Джим-Торп”
- Serbian: “Џим Торп”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jim Thorpe”
- Slovenian: “Jim Thorpe”
- Spanish: “Jim Thorpe (Pensilvania)”
- Spanish: “Jim Thorpe”
- Swedish: “Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania”
- Swedish: “Jim Thorpe”
- Tatar: “Джим-Торп”
- Turkish: “Jim Thorpe, Pensilvanya”
- Turkish: “Jim Thorpe”
- Turkish: “Mauch Chunk”
- Ukrainian: “Джим-Торп”
- Uzbek: “Jim Thorpe”
- Vietnamese: “Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Jim Thorpe”
- Volapük: “Jim Thorpe”
- Welsh: “Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Jim Thorpe”
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