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Shamokin
Pennsylvania · PA
About Shamokin
City in Pennsylvania, United States1835Established
6,942Population
0.8 sq miArea
800 ftElevation
Shamokin (; Saponi Algonquian Schahamokink, meaning "place of eels") (Lenape Indian language: Shahëmokink) is a city in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. Surrounded by Coal Township at the western edge of the Anthracite Coal Region in central Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River Valley, the city was named after a Saponi Indian village, Schahamokink. At the 2020 United States census, the population was 6,942.
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