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Coal Region
The
Coal Region
is a historically important coal-mining area in
Northeastern Pennsylvania
in the central
Appalachian Mountains
, comprising
Lackawanna
,
Luzerne
,
Columbia
,
Carbon
,
Schuylkill
,
Northumberland
, and the extreme northeast corner of
Dauphin
counties. Academics have made the distinction North Anthracite Coal Field and South Anthracite Coal Field (each of Pennsylvania), the lower region bearing the further classification
Anthracite Uplands
in physical geology.
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