Rough and Ready, Pennsylvania

Rough and Ready
Unincorporated community
Rough and Ready Location within the state of Pennsylvania
Coordinates: 40°40′46″N 76°37′40″W / 40.67944°N 76.62778°W / 40.67944; -76.62778Coordinates: 40°40′46″N 76°37′40″W / 40.67944°N 76.62778°W / 40.67944; -76.62778
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Schuylkill
Elevation	732 ft (223 m)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes	17941
Area code(s)	570
GNIS feature ID	1204550^[1]

Rough and Ready is a village located in Upper Mahantongo Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania near the confluence of the Little Mahantango Creek and Mahantango Creek, which flows west into the Susquehanna River. It uses the Klingerstown zip code of 17941. The village was named for the gold-rush town of Rough and Ready, California, which in turn was named by a mining company also named in honor of Zachary Taylor's nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." ^[2]

References

Municipalities and communities of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States

County seat: Pottsville

City	Pottsville

Boroughs	Ashland‡ Auburn Coaldale Cressona Deer Lake Frackville Gilberton Girardville Gordon Landingville Mahanoy City McAdoo Mechanicsville Middleport Minersville Mount Carbon New Philadelphia New Ringgold Orwigsburg Palo Alto Pine Grove Port Carbon Port Clinton Ringtown Schuylkill Haven Shenandoah St. Clair Tamaqua Tower City Tremont

Townships	Barry Blythe Branch Butler Cass Delano East Brunswick East Norwegian East Union Eldred Foster Frailey Hegins Hubley Kline Mahanoy New Castle North Manheim North Union Norwegian Pine Grove Porter Reilly Rush Ryan Schuylkill South Manheim Tremont Union Upper Mahantongo Walker Washington Wayne West Brunswick West Mahanoy West Penn

CDPs	Altamont Beurys Lake Branchdale Brandonville Buck Run Cumbola Delano Donaldson Duncott Englewood Forestville Fountain Springs Friedensburg Grier City Heckscherville Hegins Hometown Kelayres Klingerstown Lake Wynonah Lavelle Locustdale‡ Marlin McKeansburg Muir New Boston-Morea Newtown Nuremberg‡ Oneida Orwin Park Crest Ravine Reinerton Renningers Seltzer Shenandoah Heights Sheppton Summit Station Tuscarora Valley View

Unincorporated communities	Andreas‡ Barnesville Boston Run Brockton Clamtown Connerton Drehersville Fearnot Glen Carbon Hauto‡ Llewellyn Mahoning Valley‡ Mary D Newkirk Pitman Rauschs Reedsville Reevesdale Rough and Ready Sacramento Snyders South Tamaqua Weishample

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Greenbrier

Leck Kill

Line Mountain

Klingerstown

Hepler

Rough and Ready

Gratz

Spring Glen

Sacramento, Valley View

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