Tunkhannock
Wyoming County Seat on the Susquehanna · Est. 1841
Tunkhannock is a borough in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. The ZIP code is 18657.
Tunkhannock at a Glance
Source - U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024.
About Tunkhannock
Tunkhannock was first settled in 1771, laid out about 1790, and incorporated as a borough in 1841, and sits on the North Branch of the Susquehanna River at the mouth of Tunkhannock Creek. The name is Lenape, carried over from Tunkhannock Creek, and has been read most often as a small stream, though Espenshade preferred forest or wilderness, following Zeisberger's full of timber.
When Wyoming County was formed from Luzerne County in 1842, Tunkhannock was chosen as the county seat, and it has served as the courthouse town ever since. The population was 1,767 at the 2020 census. Lumbering drove the early economy, and for the settlement's first half-century most residents worked cutting, rafting, and selling timber. Today the borough is the commercial and government hub of a rural county.
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The Tunkhannock Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 and covers blocks of 19th-century commercial and residential buildings. The restored Dietrich Theater anchors Tioga Street. Routes 6 and 29 meet here, and Scranton lies about 28 miles to the southeast.
Tunkhannock is the retail, medical, and service center for Wyoming County. Much of the area workforce is tied to the Procter & Gamble plant in Washington Township, outside Mehoopany. The borough offers small-town housing at the center of a land, farm, and recreational market in the Endless Mountains.
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