Ravine, PA

Ravine had 622 residents in 2020 and is a census-designated place in Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill County. Pennsylvania Route 125 runs through the community, and the nearby Molleystown Road interchange sits only a short distance from Interstate 81. The roads place Ravine between the larger coal-region towns and the wooded ridges of eastern Pennsylvania, with Pine Grove and its long history of iron, coal, and railroad traffic close by.

Ravine’s own story is carried through small landmarks and nearby school ties. Pine Grove Area School District serves local students, while a 1915 photograph of the Monroe Valley School recalls the one-room school era that shaped the surrounding countryside. The broader Schuylkill landscape includes old mining roads, forested slopes, and the Appalachian Trail corridor near Pine Grove. Ravine is not an incorporated borough with a central business district; it is a compact residential community whose location along Route 125 and the mountain roads gives it a distinct place in the county’s coal-country map.