Army Depot on the Pocono Plateau ยท Monroe County
Source - U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey Five-Year Estimates ('24).
Tobyhanna sits in Coolbaugh Township, Monroe County, on the Pocono Plateau at roughly 1,900 feet. The village grew up as Tobyhanna Mills around 1830, a lumber settlement named from the Lenape word Topi-hanne, meaning alder streams, for the creek that runs through it.
Timber, a clothespin factory, and a silk mill drove the early economy. Ice harvesting from the local lakes ran from about 1900 into the 1930s, cutting blocks that shipped east by rail. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad reached the village by 1912.
The town's anchor is Tobyhanna Army Depot. The Army acquired the land in 1912 and 1913 for artillery training, and the depot was formally established on February 1, 1953. It overhauls electronics, radar, and communications systems and employs around 5,000 people, making it the largest industrial employer in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Tobyhanna State Park lies just north of the village. Its 5,440 acres surround the 170-acre Lake Tobyhanna. Interstate 380 links the area to Scranton, about 20 miles to the northwest. Housing mixes full-time residents, the depot workforce, and vacation homes.
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