| LC control no. | n 82047986 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Jim Thorpe (Pa.) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Pennsylvania--Jim Thorpe |
| Variant(s) | Jim Thorpe, Pa. Borough of Jim Thorpe (Pa.) |
| See also | Mauch Chunk (Pa.) East Mauch Chunk (Pa.) |
| Beginning date | 1954 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Pennsylvania |
| Address | 101 East 10th Street Jim Thorpe PA 18229 |
| Found in | Candeub, Cabot and Associates. Borough of Jim Thorpe ... 1965. Rand McNally comm. atlas, 1980 (Jim Thorpe, in Carbon Co., Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk consolidated as Jim Thorpe in 1954, inc.) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 40°52ʹ33ʺN 075°43ʹ57ʺW) Wikipedia, September 1, 2019 (Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania; borough and the county seat of Carbon County; founded in 1818 as Mauch Chunk; boroughs of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk merged to form Jim Thorpe; 40°52ʹ23ʺN 75°44ʹ11ʺW) Borough of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania website, September 1, 2019: home page (Borough of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania; 101 East 10th Street, Jim Thorpe PA 18229) <https://www.jtborough.org/> Encyclopædia Britannica online, September 1, 2019 (Jim Thorpe, borough (town), seat of Carbon county, eastern Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Lehigh River, in a valley of the Pocono Mountains, 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Allentown. It was created in 1954 with the merger of the boroughs of Mauch Chunk ("Bear Mountain;" inc. 1850) and East Mauch Chunk (inc. 1854) and was named for Jim Thorpe (1888-1953), the famous Native American athlete) |
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