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Map: High Falls Reservior
Map: Severence Hill Trail

Coal Power Plants – Year First Operating

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Fewer and fewer coal powered fired plants from the 1950s are still operating, but most are more then 40 years old at this point. Even as little as 5 years ago, there was a lot more coal plants left from the 1950s, but they are mostly gone at this point.

Coal Power Plants - Year First Operating

Map: Green Mountain National Forest North
Thematic Map: Cedar River Flow Campsites

Anthracite Coal Mines In Pennsylvania

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This map shows were anthracite coal is currently mined in Pennsylvania. Anthracite is the hard coal commonly used by farms and rural homesteads for inexpensive heating -- it is much hotter, drier and warmer fire then wood and last much longer a wood fire. Unlike soft coal, it burns without much soot or odor. Most of the best athracite mines are tapped out, so much of what is mined is refuse coal that is being further processed to extract useful bit of coal previously discarded.

Data Source: PASDA and Pennsylvania DCNR. Anthracite Coal Mines. http://www.pasda.psu.edu/uci/DataSummary.aspx?dataset=366