Search results
Results from the Health.Zone Content Network
Another stream of note is Raccoon Creek, which flows through a small area of the northwestern corner of the county. [7] Coal mining, both strip and underground, has been an important industry in Meigs County since the late 19th century, although mining of all types largely ceased by the 1990s.
From the 1960s to the late 1980s, the company employed nearly 1,000 people in southeastern Ohio, [4] producing up to 1.7 million tons of coal annually. [5] Today, it is still one of the major employers in Morgan County, Ohio, [6] although its high-sulfur coal now spurs little demand. [7]
The Pittsburgh coal seam is the thickest and most extensive coal bed in the Appalachian Basin; [1] hence, it is the most economically important coal bed in the eastern United States. The Upper Pennsylvanian Pittsburgh coal bed of the Monongahela Group is extensive and continuous, extending over 11,000 mi 2 through 53 counties.
Pomeroy (/ ˈpʌmrɔɪ / PUM-roy[4]) is a village in and the county seat of Meigs County, Ohio, United States, [5] along the Ohio River about 21 miles (34 km) south of Athens. The population was 1,573 at the 2020 census.
1. Nameplate capacity. 1300 MW. [edit on Wikidata] The Mountaineer Power Plant is a major coal-fired power plant outside New Haven, West Virginia, USA. Owned by American Electric Power (AEP), it has one of the tallest chimneys in the world at 336 metres (1,102 ft). This chimney was built as part of the plant in 1980 and is not in use now.
The coal miners of Carbon County consisted mainly of immigrant workers and had little association with the UMWA. Up until the twentieth century the UMWA primarily focused its attention to eastern coal regions causing Utah miners to fail numerous times in their effort to unionize but the success of out of state unions had produced hope for ...
A coalfield is an area of certain uniform characteristics where coal is mined. The criteria for determining the approximate boundary of a coalfield are geographical and cultural, in addition to geological. A coalfield often groups the seams of coal, railroad companies, cultural groups, and watersheds and other geographical considerations.
RECEIVING — Meigs: Jake Martin 3-31 TD, Landen Deweese 3-53 TD, Reed Brinegar 2-10, Wade Howard 1-minus 7, Griffen Hudson 2-102 2TD; Coal Grove: Kaden Murphy 1-4, Caden Turner 1-10 TD. Show comments