Throop Pennsylvania Map

About Throop, Pennsylvania

Throop is a locality in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,065. The population density is 315.9 people per km². Throop is located at 41.4382°N, 75.5927°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Throop is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 18447.

Throop occupies a rugged expanse of the Lackawanna Valley, where the dark, insistent pulse of the Eddy Creek carves a path through the earth. It lies 2.4 miles north-northeast of Dunmore, PA (from Dunmore, PA: bearing 26°T), and is situated 3.9 miles northeast of Scranton. The air here holds the cooling weight of a landlocked interior, far from the reach of any salt breeze, feeling instead like the exhaled breath of deep, hidden coal seams. Sunlight catches the jagged edges of the landscape in the late afternoon, casting long, bruised shadows that stretch toward the distant silhouette of the Pocono Mountains. Within the town limits, the quiet greenery of Washington Street Park provides a pause in the topography, a small island of calm where the ground feels steady and rooted. A few miles away, the churn of Nay Aug Falls and the depths of the Nay Aug Park Gorge offer a reminder of the water’s persistent, patient labor against the stone, a force that shaped the valleys long before the first foundations were laid.

Anthracite memory defines the marrow of Throop, a legacy that lingers in the way the architecture clings to the steepening slopes and the specific, industrious tilt of the streets. The local economy, once fueled by the deep-earth extraction that blackened the hands of generations, has recalibrated into a quieter, modern cadence, though the remnants of that intense, subterranean labor remain etched into the town’s character. Residents often look toward the horizon where the land lifts toward the Pocono Mountains, or find a brief reprieve two miles away at Dunmore Reservoir Number One, where the water lies still and reflective. Life here moves with a deliberate, earned gravity, tempered by the long winters and the knowledge that the ground beneath is hollowed by time. Whether following the distant Pinnacle Trail or walking the neighborhood sidewalks, one senses that Throop persists through a quiet resilience, a place that keeps its own history as closely as it keeps the secrets of the valley floor.

About This Throop Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Throop, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.438227, -75.592655. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Throop includes the ZIP code (18447), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Lackawanna County (Scranton), and school district assignment (Mid Valley School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.