2023 Map of Hop Bottom

About this map

Hop Bottom and Nicholson anchor this northeastern Pennsylvania landscape, where the drainage of Martins Creek and Hop Bottom Creek carves through a series of prominent summits like Round Hill and Squire Hill. The mapping of the Susquehanna Co and Wyoming Co border reveals a deeply rooted settlement pattern, preserved in the numerous family and community burial grounds such as Lathrop Squier Cem and the Strickland Hill Cem. The industrial and transit history of the region is evident in the path of the Lackawanna RR and the Lackawanna Trl, which follow the natural valleys once traversed by the Abington and Waterford Tpke. This network of roads and rails supported a landscape of scattered rural communities including Lindaville, Deckertown, and Hillsdale, many of which developed around local water sources like Lord Pond and Mud Pond.