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Tuscarora is an unincorporated census-designated place in Schuylkill Township, Schuylkill County, in the heart of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region near Tamaqua.

Tuscarora is named for the Tuscarora people, who settled about two miles west of present-day Tamaqua while migrating from the Carolinas to New York after the Tuscarora War of the early 1700s, planting apple trees and living there for a number of years.

Tuscarora lies within Schuylkill Township, one of the original townships of Schuylkill County, organized in 1811.

A United States post office was established in Tuscarora on May 20, 1830.

By 1846 Tuscarora was the terminus of the Schuylkill Valley Railroad, and the village then consisted of seventeen houses, two taverns, one store, and 139 people.

By 1852 Tuscarora was flourishing on its coal collieries, including the Silver Creek works at nearby Mary D, where operators mined the so-called Kentucky banks; the mines passed to the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company in 1875, and small operations such as Slattery's Tuscarora Colliery kept working into the early 20th century.

In the 1971 film Klute, Tuscarora is named as the hometown of the title character, private detective John Klute.

Tuscarora had 980 residents at the 2010 census, and at the 2000 census its 939 residents lived in 428 households.

Census Bureau survey estimates in the early 2020s put Tuscarora's population at roughly 400, with a median age of about 62 — an unusually old population profile left behind by the coal era.

Tuscarora students attend the Tamaqua Area School District, which serves Schuylkill Township and educates about 2,000 students.