Place:Lansford, Carbon, Pennsylvania, United States

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NameLansford
Alt namesAshtonsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS42013836
Richdalesource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS42013836
TypeBorough
Coordinates40.831°N 75.883°W
Located inCarbon, Pennsylvania, United States
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Lansford is a county-border borough (town) in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States, located northwest of Allentown and 19 miles south of Hazleton in the Panther Creek Valley about from Philadelphia and abutting the cross-county sister-city of Coaldale in Schuylkill County. Lansford is part of the Lehigh Valley, which has a population of 861,899 and is the 68th most populated metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.

The whole valley was owned and subdivided into separate lots by the historically important Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (locally called "the Old Company"), which likely settled some structures on the lands by 1827.

Lansford grew with the development of local anthracite coal mines, and was named after Asa Lansford Foster, who was an advocate for merging the small "patch towns" that developed in the area surrounding the anthracite coal mines.

The population was 3,941 at the 2010 Census, a steep decline from a high of 9,632 at the 1930 census common to many mining towns in northeastern Pennsylvania.

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