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Trevorton is a census-designated place in Zerbe Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, in the heart of the anthracite Coal Region.

Trevorton was founded in 1850, when Kimber Cleaver laid out the town in the spring of that year at a site where only a single log house stood, with Judge William L. Helfenstein as the principal promoter of the company behind the founding.

Coal was being dug at Zerbe Gap, the site of Trevorton, as early as about 1828-29, when it was quarried from the surface much like stone.

By 1855 an immense coal breaker at Zerbe Gap, said at the time to be the largest ever erected, was able to prepare 1,000 tons of coal per day.

Trevorton shipped 110,711 tons of coal in the year 1857 alone, according to Bell's History of Northumberland County.

Trevorton lies in a narrow valley in northern Zerbe Township, about eight miles from Shamokin and twelve miles from the Susquehanna River, and was historically served by a branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.

The census-designated place covers about 4.3 square miles in the Zerbe Valley.

Trevorton's population has fallen steadily since the coal era: it stood at 2,597 in 1960, 2,010 people in 866 households at the 2000 census, 1,834 in 2010, and 1,759 at the 2020 census.