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ˈskræn tnscran·ton

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Scrantonnoun

    an industrial city of northeastern Pennsylvania

Wikipedia

  1. Scranton

    Scranton is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Lackawanna County. With a population of 76,328 as of the 2020 U.S. census, Scranton is the largest city in Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 562,037 as of 2020. It is the sixth largest city in Pennsylvania. The contiguous network of five cities and more than 40 boroughs all built in a straight line in Northeastern Pennsylvania's urban area act culturally and logistically as one continuous city, so while the city of Scranton itself is a mid-sized city, the larger Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Metropolitan Area contains nearly half a million residents in roughly 200 square miles. Scranton is the cultural and economic center of a region called Northeastern Pennsylvania, which is home to over 1.3 million residents.Scranton hosts a federal court building for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The city is conventionally divided into nine districts: North Scranton, Southside, Westside, Eastside/Hill Section, Central City, Minooka, West Mountain, East Mountain, and Green Ridge, though these areas do not have legal status. The city is the geographic and cultural center of the Lackawanna River valley (a local name for a small part of the Wyoming Valley) and Northeastern Pennsylvania, as well as the largest of the former anthracite coal mining communities in a contiguous quilt-work that also includes Wilkes-Barre, Nanticoke, Pittston, and Carbondale. Scranton was incorporated on February 14, 1856, as a borough in Luzerne County and as a city on April 23, 1866. It became a major industrial city and a center of mining and railroads; it attracted thousands of new immigrants. It was the site of the Scranton General Strike in 1877. People in northern Luzerne County sought a new county in 1839, but the Wilkes-Barre area resisted losing its assets. Lackawanna County did not gain independent status until 1878. Under legislation allowing the issue to be voted by residents of the proposed territory, voters favored the new county by a proportion of 6 to 1, with Scranton residents providing the major support. The city was designated as the county seat when Lackawanna County was established in 1878, and a judicial district was authorized in July 1879. The city's nickname "Electric City" began when electric lights were introduced in 1880 at the Dickson Manufacturing Company. Six years later, the United States' first streetcars powered only by electricity began operating in the city. Rev. David Spencer, a local Baptist minister, later proclaimed Scranton as the "Electric City".The city's industrial production and population peaked in the 1930s and 1940s, fueled by demand for coal and textiles, especially during World War II. But while the national economy boomed after the war, demand for the region's coal declined as other forms of energy became more popular, which also harmed the rail industry. Foreseeing the decline, city leaders formulated the Scranton Plan in 1945 to diversify the local economy beyond coal, but the city's economy continued to decline. The Knox Mine disaster of 1959 essentially ended coal mining in the region. Scranton's population dropped from its peak of 143,433 in the 1930 census to 76,089 in the 2010 census. The city now has large health care, academic, and manufacturing sectors. Scranton is located 77 miles (124 km) north of Allentown, 120 miles (190 km) north of Philadelphia, and 120 miles (190 km) northwest of New York City.

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  1. scranton

    Scranton is a city located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is the county seat of Lackawanna County and the sixth-most populous city in Pennsylvania. Scranton is known for its industrial past, specifically in coal mining and railroads. It has a rich cultural heritage with various historical sites, museums, and is famously known as the setting for the U.S. version of the sitcom "The Office."

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  1. Scranton

    Scranton is a city in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania, United States. It is the county seat of Lackawanna County and the largest principal city in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area. Scranton had a population of 76,089 in 2010, according to the U.S. Census, making it Pennsylvania's sixth-most-populous city after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, and Reading. Scranton is the geographic and cultural center of the Lackawanna River valley, and the largest of the former anthracite coal mining communities in a contiguous quilt-work that also includes Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, and Carbondale. Scranton was incorporated as a borough on February 14, 1856, and as a city on April 23, 1866. Scranton became known as the Electric City when electric lights were introduced at Dickson Locomotive Works in 1880. Scranton is also home to a regional branch of Dunder Mifflin, the fictional paper company featured in the television series The Office.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Scranton

    capital of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, on the Lackawanna River, 144 m. NW. of New York; does a large trade in coal, and is the centre of a busy steel, iron, and machinery industry.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SCRANTON

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Scranton is ranked #13010 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Scranton surname appeared 2,359 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Scranton.

    83.7% or 1,975 total occurrences were White.
    11.4% or 271 total occurrences were Black.
    1.9% or 47 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.8% or 44 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scranton in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scranton in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of scranton in a Sentence

  1. Hunter Biden:

    Every time I walk out of my Irish Catholic grandfather’s home up in Scranton, Pennsylvania – his name was Ambrose Finnegan – and he’d yell, ‘Joey, keep the faith,’.

  2. Mark Nevins:

    The Trump administration's definition of a 'strong economy' is essentially based on the stock market, the people who benefit from that are more like Donald Trump than a worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania.

  3. John King:

    Where you look at Joe Biden then or look at Joe Biden now -- he's a kid from Scranton, he speaks the language of the bartender or the plumber or the mailman.

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