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Kulpmont is a borough in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, sitting in the Western Middle Anthracite Field of the state's coal region.

Unlike the neighboring coal 'patch towns' built and controlled by a single mining company, Kulpmont was developed as an open residential community by Monroe Henry Kulp, a local businessman and U.S. Congressman who bought the land to house miners from nearby collieries such as the Scott and Sayre collieries.

Kulpmont was officially incorporated as a borough on August 24, 1915, and its first council meeting was held on January 3, 1916.

Because of its central location between Mount Carmel and Shamokin along what is now Pennsylvania Route 61, Kulpmont grew rapidly in the early 20th century and peaked at 6,159 residents in the 1940 census.

Kulpmont's population was 2,758 at the 2020 census, and the 2000 census counted 1,338 households packed into the borough's roughly one square mile.

As deep coal mining declined, Kulpmont reinvented itself as a center for garment manufacturing in the mid-20th century, when several factories in the borough provided jobs that stabilized the community.

Since 1963, Kulpmont students have attended the Mount Carmel Area School District; before that, the borough had its own Kulpmont High School, home of the Wildcats.

Kulpmont's European immigrant heritage is still visible in its many church parishes, and its notable natives include heavyweight boxing contender Joe Baksi and college football coach Bob Chesney.