Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Dickson City, PA

Dickson City is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, located about 4 miles north of Scranton in the Lackawanna Valley.

The borough began as Priceburg: German immigrants founded the village of Priceville in 1863 in honor of Eli Price, and it grew rapidly after the Johnson coal shaft was sunk around 1880.

Dickson City was incorporated as a borough in June 1875, at that time including all of present-day Throop.

The borough takes its name from Thomas Dickson, founder of the Dickson Manufacturing Company and president of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad from 1869 to 1884.

Anthracite coal mining was Dickson City's principal industry, and at its coal-era peak the borough's population reached 12,395 in 1930.

Dickson City had a population of 6,038 at the 2020 census — roughly half its 1930 peak — with about 2,778 households and an owner-occupied housing rate of about 67 percent.

Once dominated by coal mines, Dickson City has reinvented itself as the retail center of the mid-valley, with big-box stores and restaurants lining Business Route 6 and the Viewmont Mall area on reclaimed coal lands.

Dickson City students attend the Mid Valley School District, which was formed in 1969 by merging the schools of Dickson City, Olyphant, and Throop.

The borough covers about 4.8 square miles along the Lackawanna River, where the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail now runs through the old coal country.