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Welcome to Miners Mills ...

Miners Mills is located in Luzerne County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Miners Mills, you might consider that their post office opened in 1884.

A typical abbreviation for Miners Mills: Miners Mls. (or less commonly used: Miners Mlls.)

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Miners Mills for more information about variations on the name of Miners Mills.

Miners Mills is 670 feet [204 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Miners Mills lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Miners Mills: 570 & 272<3>

Communities near Miners Mills ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Miners Mills.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Miners Mills. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Miners Mills.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Miners Mills. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Miners Mills.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Miners Mills. See our Newspapers Page for Miners Mills.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Miners Mills ...

Looking for more information about Miners Mills? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Miners Mills, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Miners Mills.

Adding Miners Mills to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Miners Mills in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Miners Mills was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Miners Mills post office opened in 1884. The Miners Mills post office closed in 1912.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Miners Mills.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties, including Luzerne, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Miners Mills - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 570 code has been Overlayed with the 272 area code. New phone numbers in the Miners Mills area will be assigned with one of these codes: 570 or 272. As a result, placing a call in the Miners Mills area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/