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==Geography== Dunmore is located at {{coord|41|25|3|N|75|37|28|W|type:city}} (41.417530, β75.624432).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990|newspaper=Census.gov}}</ref> According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the borough has a total area of {{convert|9|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|8.9|sqmi|km2}} is land and {{convert|0.1|sqmi|km2}} (1.11%) is water. [[Roaring Brook (Lackawanna River)|Roaring Brook]] flows from the southeast and turns west through the Nay Aug Gorge in Dunmore to the [[Lackawanna River]] in Scranton. Most of the borough is drained by Roaring Brook, except for an area in the west drained by Meadow Brook into the Lackawanna River. The southeastern side of the borough is on the slopes of the [[Moosic Mountains]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=O'Hora|first1=Margaret M.|title=History of Dunmore Pennsylvania|date=1937|publisher=Dunmore Improvement Association|location=Dunmore, PA|page=5|url=http://content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org/cdm/ref/collection/Centennial/id/680|access-date=22 April 2017|archive-date=12 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512104058/http://content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org/cdm/ref/collection/Centennial/id/680|url-status=dead}}</ref> which the gorge cuts through. The [[Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad|Lackawanna Railroad]] operated through the Nay Aug Gorge into Scranton from the Poconos and Northern New Jersey. {{Geographic Location (8-way) |Centre = Dunmore |North = [[Scranton, Pennsylvania|Scranton]]/[[Throop, Pennsylvania|Throop]] |Northeast = [[Throop, Pennsylvania|Throop]] |East = [[Throop, Pennsylvania|Throop]]/[[Roaring Brook Township, Pennsylvania|Roaring Brook Township]] |Southeast = [[Roaring Brook Township, Pennsylvania|Roaring Brook Township]] |South = [[Roaring Brook Township, Pennsylvania|Roaring Brook Township]] |Southwest = [[Scranton, Pennsylvania|Scranton]] |West = [[Scranton, Pennsylvania|Scranton]] |Northwest = [[Scranton, Pennsylvania|Scranton]] |image = }}
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