Editing Palmerton, Pennsylvania (section)

==Geography==
Palmerton is located in southern Carbon County at {{Coord|40|48|11|N|75|36|43|W|type:city}} (40.803077, -75.611808).<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}}</ref> It lies just north of the junction of the [[Lehigh River]] and [[Aquashicola Creek]], which in turn is just north of the [[Lehigh Gap]] through [[Blue Mountain (Pennsylvania)|Blue Mountain]]. To the north of Palmerton is Stony Ridge.

The borough is located {{convert|3|mi|0}} east of [[Bowmanstown, Pennsylvania|Bowmanstown]] and {{convert|5|mi|0}} north of the twin towns of [[Walnutport, Pennsylvania|Walnutport]] and [[Slatington, Pennsylvania|Slatington]], {{convert|7|mi|0}} southeast of [[Lehighton, Pennsylvania|Lehighton]], and {{convert|58|mi}} south of the city of [[Scranton, Pennsylvania|Scranton]]. Palmerton's elevation is {{convert|407|ft|m}} above sea level.

According to the [[United States Census Bureau|U.S. Census Bureau]], the borough has a total area of {{convert|6.57|km2|disp=flip}}, of which {{convert|6.43|km2|disp=flip}} is land and {{convert|0.13|km2|disp=flip|2}}, or 2.00%, is water.<ref name="Census 2010"/> The layout of Palmerton's streets and alleys is extremely regular, because most of the town was planned and built by the [[New Jersey Zinc Company]]. Avenues, which run east to west, contain the majority of addresses and are named for [[college]]s and [[university|universities]]. Streets, running perpendicular, are numbered from First Street in the west to Eighth Street in the east. Most of the houses in the central and southern parts of town (near the zinc plants) are "doubles"—one building divided down the center into two residences.