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19-512: Nestled above a creek sculpted ravine across from the even less negotiable sides of Broad Mountain the flanks above Nesquehoning Creek reach a sharp bend cut by the water gap of the Lehigh River and merge with the ridge of Pisgah Ridge to the south into a common terminal mountain, Mount Pisgah within sight of the Poconos in a region once touted as "The Switzerland of America" along

38-553: A household in the borough was $ 38,219, and the median income for a family was $ 43,047. Males had a median income of $ 32,679 versus $ 21,607 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $ 16,192. About 8.7% of families and 10.8% of the population were below the poverty line , including 21.8% of those under age 18 and 3.9% of those age 65 or over. As of 2007, there were 14.58 miles (23.46 km) of public roads in Weatherly, of which 4.33 miles (6.97 km) were maintained by

57-534: Is discharged into Nesquehoning Creek. Nesquehoning Creek originates both in a forested area on the slopes of Broad Mountain at an elevation somewhat in excess of 1360 ft on USGS topological maps, and above the Tamaqua Gap cut by the Little Schuylkill River and Tamaqua in a saddle pass connecting with Broad Mountain . It flows south for about 2 miles (3.2 km) then turns to

76-607: Is situated at an elevation of 1,100 feet (340 m) above sea level in the Ridge-and-Valley Province of the Appalachian Mountains , between Spring Mountain and Round Head Mountain to the north and Broad Mountain to the south. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the borough has a total area of 2.98 square miles (7.72 km ), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,612 people, 931 households, and 679 families residing in

95-610: The Lehigh River . Broad Mountain (Lehigh Valley) Broad Mountain or Broad Ridge in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians in Carbon County and Schuylkill County in Pennsylvania is a steep-faced, anthracite-bearing barrier ridge just south of both Beaver Meadows and Weatherly , north of Nesquehoning and west and south of the Lehigh River basin west of the southwest border of

114-547: The Mahanoy Creek Valley. In 1830, Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company operating manager Josiah White opened mining digs at overt anthracite outcroppings in Room Run ravine, and built a self-acting plane funicular railroad two miles downstream to the company's Lehigh Canal . Large areas in the valley have been disturbed by coal mining related activities, including a majority of terrains down-crest inside

133-726: The Panther Creek Valley . While the ridge has been extensively mined, most of the digging is on the higher and less steep side of the mountain within the Panther Creek Valley. Much of the runoff from strip mines is retained in abandoned pits, and shaft mines from the Nesquehoning Creek side have been rare, the sole exception being the mine converted into the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad 's Hauto Tunnel in 1872, and lesser amounts of surface runoff

152-584: The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and 10.25 miles (16.50 km) were maintained by the borough. No numbered highways pass through Weatherly. Main thoroughfares in the borough include Hudsondale Street, Main Street, Plane Street and Hill Street. The closest numbered highway is Pennsylvania Route 93 . The Weatherly Area School District serves about 800 students. The elementary and middle schools share one building, while

171-558: The Poconos . The mountain ridge line is mostly flat and looks very similar to the man-made piles of culm in the region from the roads and towns looking up. The long ridge has several peaks and the west-southwest peak in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania is just 23 feet (7.0 m) short of the summit altitude of the Carbon County peak. The west-southwest section also continues an important watershed terrain separating

190-406: The borough. The population density was 866.8 inhabitants per square mile (334.7/km ). There were 1,033 housing units at an average density of 342.8 per square mile (132.4/km ). The racial makeup of the borough was 97.97% White , 0.27% African American , 0.08% Asian , 0.04% Pacific Islander , 0.23% from other races , and 0.42% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.69% of

209-672: The eastern edge of the Southern Anthracite Region , all several ridge lines north of Blue Mountain , which in part provides the source waters for Nesquehoning Creek , a tributary of the Lehigh River in the Poconos in Northeastern Pennsylvania . The heavily forested, relatively steep slopes of Broad and Nesquehoning Mountains characterize the land within the watershed. While US 209 and PA 93 both climb watercourse ravines on opposite sides of

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228-440: The northeast and flows into Greenwood Lake. Approximately 600 feet (180 m) downstream from the spillway, it discharges into Lake Hauto. It then continues to the northeast in a relatively narrow valley flowing past the ravine now traversed by U.S. Route 209 climbing up Room Run to the upper foot of Mount Pisgah above the divide from Panther Creek . The stream then travels down a narrow undeveloped section to its confluence with

247-475: The population. The most common ancestries in Weatherly are Italian (25.2%), Polish (15.8%), German (12.4%), Irish (10.9%), and Slovak (5.5%) There were 931 households, out of which 32.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.9% were married couples living together, 11.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.0% were non-families. 23.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.7% had someone living alone who

266-563: The promised clock. Charles and Eurana Schwab funded the clock that was built into the clock tower on top of the town's school, but the town kept the name Weatherly. Early in the twentieth century, there were silk mills, foundries, a candy factory, a fabricating plant, and a cigar factory. In 1900, 2,471 people lived there, and in 1910, the population was 2,501. Weatherly is located in northwestern Carbon County at 40°56′25″N 75°49′36″W  /  40.94028°N 75.82667°W  / 40.94028; -75.82667 (40.940257, -75.826722). It

285-535: The ridge extends 14 miles (23 km) from the right bank of the Lehigh Gorge to the left bank of the Little Schuylkill River near the railroad junctions at Hometown and Delano . Weatherly, Pennsylvania Weatherly is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania , United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania and is located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Jim Thorpe and 28 miles (45 km) south of Wilkes-Barre . The population

304-557: The valley, the Nesquehoning route is very steep and was not anything more than a mule road before the systematic attempt to create a U.S. highway was put through alongside the creek. The Nesquehoning Creek Valley consists of some residential and industrial development. Urban development is concentrated in the Borough of Nesquehoning and Hometown along the climb to Barnesville , where the transportation corridor can drop down into

323-505: The waters of the Schuylkill basin from those of the Lehigh River , which receives the majority of outflow. Broad Ridge and Nesquehoning Mountain are joined together at elevation at the location of Hometown, Pennsylvania through which an important railroad line and Pennsylvania Route 54 climb from Nesquehoning, nestled into a notch around the ridge's southern face. Oriented east-west and flanked in its south by Nesquehoning Creek ,

342-531: Was 2,525 at the 2010 census. Originally called "Black Creek", it received a name change to "Weatherly" in 1848. Clock-maker David Weatherly, also an executive of the Beaver Meadow Railroad, made an agreement with the town that he would build them a clock if they would rename the town "Weatherly". They changed the name of the town to Weatherly, however David Weatherly returned to Philadelphia to be treated for cancer and died before he could build

361-451: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 3.03. In the borough, the population was spread out, with 23.0% under the age of 18, 5.8% from 18 to 24, 25.2% from 25 to 44, 22.1% from 45 to 64, and 23.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 86.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.1 males. The median income for

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