Jim Thorpe (Pa.)
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Name (Hebrew)
ג'ים ת'ורפ (פנסילבניה)
Name (Latin)
Jim Thorpe (Pa.)
Other forms of name
Borough of Jim Thorpe (Pa.)
nnaa Jim Thorpe, Pa
Coordinates
-75.7364 -75.7364 40.8731 40.8731 (gooearth )
W0754357 W0754357 N0405233 N0405233 (geonames )
Associated country
United States
See Also From tracing place name
Mauch Chunk (Pa.)
East Mauch Chunk (Pa.)
MARC
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Sources of Information
- home page (Borough of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania; 101 East 10th Street, Jim Thorpe PA 18229 ( (Borough of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania website, September 1, 2019:) )
- Encyclopædia Britannica online, September 1, 2019(Jim Thorpe, borough (town), seat of Carbon county, eastern Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Lehigh River, in a valley of the Pocono Mountains, 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Allentown. It was created in 1954 with the merger of the boroughs of Mauch Chunk ("Bear Mountain;" inc. 1850) and East Mauch Chunk (inc. 1854) and was named for Jim Thorpe (1888-1953), the famous Native American athlete)
- GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 40°52ʹ33ʺN 075°43ʹ57ʺW)
- Wikipedia, September 1, 2019(Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania; borough and the county seat of Carbon County; founded in 1818 as Mauch Chunk; boroughs of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk merged to form Jim Thorpe; 40°52ʹ23ʺN 75°44ʹ11ʺW)
- Candeub, Cabot and Associates. Borough of Jim Thorpe ... 1965.
- Rand McNally comm. atlas, 1980(Jim Thorpe, in Carbon Co., Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk consolidated as Jim Thorpe in 1954, inc.)