Beaver Meadows, PA
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 Location of Beaver Meadows in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. |
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| Coordinates: 40°55′42″N 75°54′46″W / 40.92833°N 75.91278°WCoordinates: 40°55′42″N 75°54′46″W / 40.92833°N 75.91278°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Carbon |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.26 sq mi (0.67 km2) |
| • Land | 0.26 sq mi (0.67 km2) |
| • Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,598 ft (487 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 869 |
| • Estimate (2016) | 836 |
| • Density | 3,240.31/sq mi (1,250.34/km2) |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 18216 |
| Area code(s) | 570 |
| FIPS code | 42-04816 |
Beaver Meadows is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 869 at the 2010 census.
Beaver Meadows is located in northwestern Carbon County at 40°55′42″N 75°54′46″W / 40.92833°N 75.91278°W (40.928438, -75.912787) along Beaver Creek, amidst a historic transportation corridor dating back to Amerindian Trails through the wilderness area known to the Amerindians as "The Great Swamp". The Great Swamp was part of a vastly greater wilderness once known as “St. Anthony’s Wilderness” and by the Amerindians, the “Towamensing” being an Indian word for “wilderness”— a vast pinewood forest and boggy swamp-plagued valleys well watered by diverse springs and mountain creeks such as Quakake Creek, Beaver Creek, Hazel Creek and a host of others coming off the slopes of the enclosing mountains. The Amerindians applied the term, “Towamensing” to the entire frontier area above the Blue Mountain Ridge, which while a valued hunting territory was considered less favorable to Indian settlements.
Beaver Meadow is situated at an elevation of 1,598 feet (487 m) above sea level in the valley of Beaver Creek, north of Spring Mountain, part of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.26 square miles (0.67 km2), all of it land.
In 1752, the lands of Carbon County and Beaver Meadows area were part of Northampton County, one of the three original counties of Pennsylvania, a county as big as New Jersey. the 1790s the Warrior's Path was widened into a mule and cart road some called the Lausanne-Nescopeck Road as Moravians increased their connections with the St. John's settlement in the Nescopeck Creek valley. In 1804 business interests desiring to ship timber to energy starving cities raised money for a wagon road that could support timber sledges in winter snow covers, and the Lehigh and Susquehanna Turnpike was chartered, which is now closely followed by Pennsylvania Route 93 as it passes through the borough from over Broad Mountain at Nesquehoning, leading northwest 4 miles (6 km) to Hazleton and southeast 9 miles (14 km) to U.S. Route 209 in Nesquehoning. Weatherly is 4 miles (6 km) to the east via Spring Mountain Road, where Beaver Creek ends in confluence with Hazel Creek begating Black Creek.
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