Tomhicken, Pennsylvania

Tomhicken, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
Tomhicken, Pennsylvania
Coordinates: 40°58′07″N 76°05′37″W / 40.96861°N 76.09361°W / 40.96861; -76.09361Coordinates: 40°58′07″N 76°05′37″W / 40.96861°N 76.09361°W / 40.96861; -76.09361
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Luzerne
Elevation	1,350 ft (410 m)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Area code(s)	570

Tomhicken is an unincorporated community in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. Tomhicken is notable for being a junction point between the Lehigh Valley Railroad's Tomhicken Branch and the Pennsylvania Rail Road's Catawissa Branch. Tomhicken is part of the Greater Hazleton region.

Municipalities and communities of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States

County seat: Wilkes-Barre

Cities	Hazleton Nanticoke Pittston Wilkes-Barre

Boroughs	Ashley Avoca Bear Creek Village Conyngham Courtdale Dallas Dupont Duryea Edwardsville Exeter Forty Fort Freeland Harveys Lake Hughestown Jeddo Kingston Laflin Larksville Laurel Run Luzerne Nescopeck New Columbus Nuangola Penn Lake Park Plymouth Pringle Shickshinny Sugar Notch Swoyersville Warrior Run West Hazleton West Pittston West Wyoming White Haven Wyoming Yatesville

Townships	Bear Creek Black Creek Buck Butler Conyngham Dallas Dennison Dorrance Exeter Fairmount Fairview Foster Franklin Hanover Hollenback Hunlock Huntington Jackson Jenkins Kingston Lake Lehman Nescopeck Newport Pittston Plains Plymouth Rice Ross Salem Slocum Sugarloaf Union Wilkes-Barre Wright

CDPs	Beech Mountain Lakes Browntown Chase East Berwick Georgetown Glen Lyon Hickory Hills Hilldale Hudson Huntington Mills Inkerman Mocanaqua Mountain Top Nuremberg‡ Pikes Creek Plains Shavertown Sheatown Silkworth Trucksville Upper Exeter Wanamie West Nanticoke Weston

Unincorporated communities	Alden Back Mountain Breslau Cranberry Drifton Drums Ebervale Glen Summit Springs Harveyville Harwood Humboldt Japan Kis-Lyn Koonsville Korn Krest Kunkle Milnesville Mossville Mountain Grove Old Boston Port Griffith Sandy Run Stockton Suscon Sweet Valley Sybertsville Tomhicken Wapwallopen Waterton

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

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