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West Hazleton is a borough in Luzerne County, founded by Conrad Horn and officially established as a borough on March 12, 1887.

West Hazleton's first burgess (mayor) was J.W. McMurtrie, who served from 1888 to 1890.

West Hazleton boomed as an anthracite coal mining town, exploding from just 191 residents in 1880 to a peak of 7,523 by 1940 as thousands of European immigrants arrived to work the collieries.

After coal declined, West Hazleton reinvented itself around manufacturing and commerce, helped by the CAN DO development organization and the Valmont Industrial Park.

West Hazleton had 5,163 residents at the 2020 census — up 12.4% from 2010, a rare population rebound for a Pennsylvania coal-region borough.

West Hazleton has been transformed by immigration: Hispanic or Latino residents made up 60% of the borough's population in 2020, up from just 2.2% in 2000.

The borough was once the recreation hub of the Hazleton area — Hazle Park was the region's premier amusement destination, and Babe Ruth once played baseball at the borough's Cranberry Ballpark.

West Hazleton is a compact 1.58 square miles squeezed along PA Route 93 just west of Hazleton city, with Interstate 81 cutting through its northern section, about 31 miles south of Wilkes-Barre.

West Hazleton Elementary/Middle School sits inside the borough, and local students are part of the Hazleton Area School District.

At the 2000 census the borough had 1,634 households, many of them in the tight-knit ethnic "patch town" neighborhoods that still shape West Hazleton's character.