Editing Swoyersville, Pennsylvania (section)

==Geography==
[[Image:Map of Luzerne County Pennsylvania School Districts.png|thumb|left|A map of Luzerne County [[school districts]]. Swoyersville is part of [[Wyoming Valley West School District]] (seen in orange).]]
Swoyersville is located at {{coord|41.294602|-75.876684|type:city_region:US|format=dms|display=inline}}.<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> According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the borough has a total area of {{convert|5.5|km2|disp=flip}}, all  land.

Swoyersville's terrain is flat in the south, with the northern part of the borough being hilly. The majority of the borough's land is urban, with some forest in the north.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Swoyersville,%20Luzerne,%20PA |title = Google Maps}}</ref>

A massive pile of [[coal ash]] as high as a 17-story building is in the town, surrounded by homes. The pile is enough to fill 26,000 rail cars, and the mayor Christopher Concert advocates for it to be hauled away, if state and federal funding can be secured, even though he used it for sledding in the winter as a child.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bruggers|first=James|date=2021-12-12|title=Coal Powered the Industrial Revolution. It Left Behind an ‘Absolutely Massive’ Environmental Catastrophe|url=https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12122021/coal-powered-the-industrial-revolution-it-left-behind-an-absolutely-massive-environmental-catastrophe/|access-date=2021-12-18|website=Inside Climate News|language=en-US}}</ref>