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Nanticoke is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the Wyoming Valley near the Susquehanna River, and with 10,628 residents at the 2020 census it is the third-largest city in Luzerne County.

Nanticoke takes its name from the Nentego, an Algonquian-speaking people whose name meant 'tidewater people' and who moved into the Wyoming Valley after their Chesapeake Bay homelands were spoiled for hunting.

A forge was built on Nanticoke Creek in 1778 and the settlement was incorporated as a village in 1830, before Nanticoke was chartered as a borough on January 31, 1874.

Nanticoke voted in 1924 to form a city government and officially became a third-class city in January 1926, after its population boom of 1917-1925 qualified it for city status.

Nanticoke rose to prominence as an anthracite coal mining community powered by European immigrant labor, and its population peaked at more than 26,000 people in 1930 before the collapse of the mining industry shrank the city.

Nanticoke's 10,628 residents in 2020 lived in 4,665 households, and the city is divided into the Honey Pot, Downtown, and Hanover Section neighborhoods.

Nanticoke is home to the 167-acre main campus of Luzerne County Community College, founded in the city in 1967, which offers over 100 programs, counts more than 30,000 graduates, and runs eleven satellite learning centers across Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Nanticoke's students are served by the Greater Nanticoke Area School District, which also covers Plymouth, Newport, and Conyngham townships across roughly 52 square miles.

Samuel H. Kress opened his very first store in Nanticoke - the shop that grew into the national S. H. Kress & Co. five-and-dime chain.

Near Nanticoke's Hanover Section stands Concrete City, a model concrete housing development built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's coal division in 1911, abandoned in 1924, designated a historic site in 1998, and still standing as a tourist attraction.