Mount Carbon, PA

Mount Carbon is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States, two miles south of Pottsville. The 2020 census counted 88 residents. Mount Carbon was formed from North Manheim Township in 1864. The borough is the smallest municipality in Schuylkill County. Mount Carbon's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Pennsylvania setting. The local scoop is how Mount Carbon's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Mount Carbon was the terminus of the original Philadelphia and Reading Railway, opened in 1842. Mount Carbon was a very active location along the Canal. Mount Carbon includes the Reading Blue Mountain.