Broad Mountain or Broad Ridge in the

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in Carbon County and Schuylkill County in

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is a steep-faced, anthracite-bearing

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just south of both Beaver Meadows and Weatherly, north of Nesquehoning and west and south of the

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basin west of the southwest border of 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.

Geography

The long ridge has several peaks and the west-southwest peak in

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is just short of the summit altitude of the Carbon County peak. The west-southwest section also continues an important

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terrain separating the waters of the Schuylkill basin from those of the

, which receives the majority of outflow. Broad Ridge and

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are joined together at elevation at the location of

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through which an important railroad line and

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climb from Nesquehoning, nestled into a notch around the ridge's southern face. Oriented east-west and flanked in its south by

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, the ridge extends Approximate, parallel and similar distance as

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to Tamaqua cited in

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from the

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of the

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to the

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of the

Little Schuylkill River The Little Schuylkill River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Schuylkill River in Northeastern Pennsylvania. It rises south of McAdoo H ...

near the railroad junctions at Hometown and Delano.

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