A coal town, also known as a coal camp or patch, is a type of company town or mining community established by the employer, a mining company, which imports...

air. Town gas is a more general term referring to manufactured gaseous fuels produced for sale to consumers and municipalities. The original coal gas was...

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of...

Creek Township; this gave the town its first name, Bull's Head. In 1842, Centralia's land was bought by the Locust Mountain Coal and Iron Company. Alexander...

coal scrip could only be used at the specific locality or coal town of the company named. Because coal scrip was used in the context of a coal town,...

People have worked as coal miners for centuries, but they became increasingly important during the Industrial Revolution when coal was burnt on a large...

The History of coal mining goes back thousands of years, with early mines documented in ancient China, the Roman Empire and other early historical economies...

The coal mining communities, or coal towns of Raleigh County, West Virginia were situated to exploit the area's rich coal seams. Many of these towns were...

up coaling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Coaling can refer to: Coaling, Alabama, a town in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States Coaling Island...

Hollywood was an unincorporated community and coal town which was ultimately incorporated into the boundaries of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, United States...

transformation in the coalfields. Beginning in 1870–1880, coal operators had established the company town system. Coal operators paid private detectives as well as...

The Centralia mine fire is a coal-seam fire that has been burning in the labyrinth of abandoned coal mines underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania...

Coalwood is an unincorporated coal town in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. The coal mine in Coalwood reached its peak in the 1950s and ceased...

Following the beginning of coal mining in 1908, the town was established and named after the English coal town, Newcastle upon Tyne. Coal mining had ended by...

The coal mining communities, or coal towns of McDowell County, West Virginia were situated to exploit the area's rich coal seams. Many of these towns were...

Coke is a grey, hard, and porous coal-based fuel with a high carbon content. It is made by heating coal or petroleum in the absence of air. Coke is an...

is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States, on the New River. The population was five at the 2020 census. During the heyday of coal mining...

Pennsylvania were home to a booming coal industry. Many of these towns also housed coking facilities for the coal mined nearby, many of which still have...

Coal Creek may refer to: Coal Creek, Queensland, a locality in the Somerset Region Coal Creek, Victoria, a town Coal Creek (British Columbia), a creek...

including the current town centre, was developed as a second wave new town in the 1960s. The town's initial development as a coal town coincided with the...

are black coal, hard coal, stone coal, dark coal, coffee coal, blind coal (in Scotland), Kilkenny coal (in Ireland), crow coal or craw coal, and black...

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely...

Ireland, founded Kemmerer as an "independent town" in 1897 when he was vice-president of the Kemmerer Coal Company, located 6 miles (9.7 km) south of the...

relating to coal mining, especially historical. Burns, Daniel. The modern practice of coal mining (1907) Chirons, Nicholas P. Coal Age Handbook of Coal Surface...

the town. Coal Creek and the nearby town of Briceville were the sites of a major lockout of coal miners in 1891, which resulted in the town of Coal Creek...

vapour (H2O)—from coal and water, air and/or oxygen. Historically, coal was gasified to produce coal gas, also known as "town gas". Coal gas is combustible...

The Town of Coal Creek is a Statutory Town located in Fremont County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 364 at the 2020 United States Census...

Jharia's economy is heavily dependent on the local coal fields, used to make coke. However, fires in the coal fields have made the city heavily polluted, with...

community and coal town in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States. Incorporated in 1912, the town was named for a director of Consolidation Coal Company (Consol)...

The coal towns, or "coal camps" of Mingo County, West Virginia were situated to exploit the area's rich coal seams. Many of these towns were located in...