Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Mayfield, PA

Mayfield is a borough in Lackawanna County, about 14 miles northeast of Scranton in the Lackawanna River valley.

Mayfield was incorporated on November 7, 1881, from Carbondale Township under its original name, the Borough of Glenwood, after the Glenwood coal breaker of the Hillside Coal & Iron Company around which the village grew.

In 1888 the borough was renamed Mayville in honor of Captain William A. May, the Hillside Coal & Iron Company manager who had driven the development of its anthracite mines, and in 1890 postal authorities had it renamed again, to Mayfield, because another Pennsylvania post office was already called Mayville.

Anthracite coal mining was Mayfield's chief industry — the Glenwood, Hillside, and Keystone collieries all operated within the borough limits — and the borough also had a silk mill.

Mayfield and neighboring Jermyn are known locally as the 'twin boroughs.'

Mayfield's population peaked at 3,832 in 1920 during the coal boom; the 2020 census counted 1,763 residents.

The 2000 census counted 744 households in Mayfield.

The borough covers 2.4 square miles, all of it land.

Mayfield is served by the Lakeland School District.

Mayfield's growth followed the Delaware & Hudson's gravity railroad, which carried the valley's anthracite coal from the Carbondale area to New York City markets.