Do you know of Harwood Mines ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Harwood Mines. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Harwood Mines.<1> Our sources for Harwood Mines (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Harwood Mines other than they indicate that Harwood Mines would be found somewhere in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1892 and closed in 1963. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Harwood Mines ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Harwood Mines: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Harwood Mines. Referenced FIPS Records ... FIPS Code: 42/33040 (Place Name: Harwood Mines) County: Luzerne (FIPS State/County: 42/079) Class: U8 Identifies a populated place (in this case, Harwood Mines) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). More Orphans in Luzerne County ...Can you help? As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Luzerne County. Footnotes ...
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