Scranton (US-PA)

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Scranton is the sixth-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the county seat and largest city of Lackawanna County in Northeastern Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley and hosts a federal court building for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. With a population of 76,653, it is the largest city in Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of about 570,000. The city is conventionally divided into 9 districts: North Scranton, Southside, Westside, the Hill Section, Central City, Minooka, East Mountain, Providence, and Green Ridge, though these areas do not have legal status.


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Precancels

Precancel Scranton-PA on Scott 302 (Jackson). c.1903.
Precancel Scranton-PA on Scott 570. c.1922.

Meter cancels

Meter cancel Scranton 1943.