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Scranton is the county seat of Lackawanna County and, with 76,328 residents at the 2020 census, it is the largest city in Northeastern Pennsylvania and the sixth-largest city in the state.

Scranton has about 30,247 households, averaging just 2.32 people per household, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures.

The city began as the village of Slocum Hollow and took its name from George W. Scranton, whose Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company turned it into an industrial boomtown.

Scranton was incorporated as a borough on February 14, 1856, and as a city on April 23, 1866.

Scranton earned its nickname 'The Electric City' in 1886, when the first streetcars in the United States powered only by electricity began running on its streets.

Scranton was one of the world's great anthracite coal centers, and its population peaked at 143,433 in 1930 before the coal industry declined.

The Steamtown National Historic Site preserves Scranton's railroad heritage with a working roundhouse and historic steam locomotives, and the Electric City Trolley Museum celebrates its transit firsts.

Scranton's industrial past is on display at the Scranton Iron Furnaces and the Lackawanna Coal Mine, where visitors can go underground into a real anthracite mine.

Scranton's largest green space is Nay Aug Park, home to the Nay Aug Gorge and waterfall and to the Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art.

Scranton is a college city, home to the Jesuit University of Scranton, Marywood University, the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, and Lackawanna College.