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coalfield is an area of certain uniform characteristics where
coalCoal is a readily combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock normally occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...
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.
At one time the coalfield designation was an important category in business and industrial discussions.
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coalfield is an area of certain uniform characteristics where
coalCoal is a readily combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock normally occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...
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.
At one time the coalfield designation was an important category in business and industrial discussions. The terminology declined into unimportance as the 20th Century progressed, and was probably only referred to by a few small railroads and history buffs by the 1980s. Renewed interest in industrial heritage and coal mining history has brought the old names of the coalfields before a larger audience.
Alabama
- Warrior Coalfield
- Cahaba Coalfield
- Coosa Coalfield
- Sand Mountain Coalfield
- Lookout Mountain Coalfield
Colorado
- Trinidad Coalfield
- Pagosa Springs Coalfield
- Durango Coalfield
- Nucla Naturita Coalfield
- Canyon City Coalfield
- Grand Mesa Coalfield
- Somerset Colorado Coalfield
- Crested Butte Coalfield
- Grand Hogback Coalfield
- Book Cliffs Coalfield
- Colorado Springs Coalfield
- South Park Coalfield
- Boulder-Weld Coalfield
- North Park Coalfield
- Yampa Coalfield
- Dan Forth Hills Coalfield
Iowa
- Appanoose-Wayne Coalfield
- Walnut Creek Coalfield
- Fort Dodge Coalfield
- Eldora Coalfield
Kentucky
- Paintsville Coalfield
- Kenova Coalfield
- Thacker Coalfield
- Elkhorn Coalfield
- Harlan Coalfield
- Jellico Coalfield
- Hazard Coalfield
- Southern Appalachian
- Cincinnati-Southern Coalfield
- Western Kentucky Coalfield
Maryland
- Georges Creek Coalfield
- Upper Potomac Coalfield
- Cassellman Coalfield
- Upper Youghiogheny Coalfield
- Lower Youghiogheny Coalfield
Ohio
- Pittsburgh No. 8 Coalfield
- Cambridge Coalfield
- Coshocton Coalfield
- Crooksville Coalfield
- Hocking Coalfield
- Jackson Coalfield
- Pomeroy Coalfield
- Ironton Coalfield
- Goshen Coalfield
- Amsterdam-Salineville Coalfield
- Lisbon Coalfield
- Massillion Coalfield
- Palmyra Coalfield
- Federal Creek Coalfield
- Meigs Creek Coalfield
Pennsylvania
- Anthracite Coalfield
- Connellsville coalfield
The Connellsville Coalfield is located in Fayette County and Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, between the city of Latrobe and the small borough of Smithfield, and is sometimes known as the Connellsville Coke Field. This is because the section of the Pittsburgh coal seam here was famous as one of...
- Klondike Coalfield
- Pittsburgh Coalfield
The Pittsburgh Coalfield is the largest of the Western Pennsylvania coalfields. It includes all or part of Allegheny, Fayette, Greene, Washington, and Westmoreland Counties in Pennsylvania. Coal has been mined in Pittsburgh since the 18th century. U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel owned Karen, Maple...
- Irwin Gas Coalfield
- Indian Valley Coalfield
- Ligonier Coalfield
- Westmoreland Coalfield
- Somerset Pennsylvania Coalfield
- Meyersdale Coalfield
- Windber Coalfield
- Black Lick Coalfield
- Mountain Coalfield
- Snowshoe Coalfield
- Moshannon Coalfield
- Clearfield Coalfield
Clearfield Coalfields of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA included rich seams of bituminous coal found in most parts of Clearfield County. A notable exception is the northern part of the county. With the entrance of the Pennsylvania Railroad's extension from Tyrone, generally northwest to...
- Bennetts Branch Coalfield
- Shawmut Coalfield
- Punxsutawney Coalfield
- Indiana Coalfield
- Freeport Coalfield
- Kittanning Coalfield
- Low Grade Division Coalfield
- Butler Coalfield
- Mercer Coalfield
- Clarion Coalfield
- Beaver Coalfield
- Broad Top Coalfield
- Georges Creek Coalfield
- Bernice Coalfield
The Bernice Coalfield is in Cherry and Colley Townships of Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. The villages of Mildred, Lopez, Murraytown and Bernice surround the Coalfields. Primarily bituminous coal was mined here. Both strip mining and deep mining was done....
- Blossburg Coalfield
- Ralston Coalfield
- Keating Coalfield
- Cameron Coalfield
Tennessee
- Cumberland Gap Coalfield
- Jellico Coalfield
- Lafollette Coalfield
- Wartburg Coalfield
- Rockwood Coalfield
- Soddy Coalfield
Utah
- Coalville Coalfield
- Blacktail Coalfield
- Vernal Coalfield
- Sunnyside Coalfield
- Castlegate Coalfield
- Wasatch Plateau
- Emery Coalfield
- Book Cliffs Coalfield
- Henry Mountains Coalfield
- Teton Basin Coalfield
- Kaiporonitis Plateau Coalfield
- Harmony Coalfield
- Kolob Plateau Coalfield
West Virginia
- Pocahontas coalfield
Pocahontas coalfield, which is also known as the Flat Top-Pocahontas Coalfield, is located in Mercer County, West Virginia, McDowell County, West Virginia and Tazewell County, Virginia. The coal seams—Pocahontas No. 3, No. 4, No. 6, and No...
- Winding Gulf Coalfield
The Winding Gulf Coalfield is located in western Raleigh County and eastern Wyoming County, in southern West Virginia. The Winding Gulf coalfield is named after Winding Gulf Creek, a tributary of the Guyandotte River...
- New River Coalfield
The New River Coalfield is located in northeastern Raleigh County and southern Fayette County, West Virginia. Commercial mining of coal began in the 1870s and thrived into the 20th century. The coal in this field is a low volatile coal, and the seams of coal that have been mined include Sewell,...
- Greenbrier Coalfield
- Logan Coalfield
The Logan Coalfield is located in Logan County, WV and Wyoming County, WV. It has been a tremendous source of high quality, high volatile bituminous coal since the field was opened by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in 1905. Later the Virginian Railway built the "Gilbert Extension" which allowed the...
- Williamson Coalfield
- Kanawha Coalfield
- Elkins Coalfield
- Fairmont Coalfield
- Upper Potomac Coalfield
- Panhandle Coalfield
- Meadow Branch Coalfield (Anthracite)
Virginia
- Pocahontas coalfield
Pocahontas coalfield, which is also known as the Flat Top-Pocahontas Coalfield, is located in Mercer County, West Virginia, McDowell County, West Virginia and Tazewell County, Virginia. The coal seams—Pocahontas No. 3, No. 4, No. 6, and No...
- Clinch Valley Coalfield
- Buchanan Coalfield
- Southwestern Coalfield (Big Stone Gap Coalfield)
- Richmond Coalfield
- Valley Coalfield (Anthracite)
Wyoming
- Hanna Coalfield
- Rock Creek Coalfield
- Black Hills Coalfield
- Powder River Coalfield (aka Gillette Coalfield)
- Bighorn Coalfield
- Jackson Hole Coalfield
- Hams Fork Coalfield
- Wind River Coalfield
- Green River Coalfield
- Goshen Hole Coalfield
Canadian coalfields
- Sydney Coalfield
- Inverness Coalfield
- Mabou Coalfield
- Pictou Coalfield
- Spring Hill Coalfield
- Joggins River Herbert Coalfield
- St Rose-Chimney Corner Coalfield
- Beersville Coalfield
- Minto Coalfield
- St. George Coalfield
- Howley Coalfield
- Onakawana Coalfield
- Estevan Coalfield
- Willow Bunch Coalfield
- Wood Mountain Coalfield
- Cypress Coalfield
- Taber Coalfield
- Flathead Coalfield
- Crowsnest Coalfield
- Elk Valley Coalfield
- Princeton Coalfield
- Tulameen Coalfield
- Merritt Coalfield
- Hat Creek Coalfield
- Nanaimo Coalfield
- Comox Coalfield
Great Britain
- County Durham
County Durham is a ceremonial county and unitary district in North East England. The county town is Durham.The largest settlement in the ceremonial county is the town of Darlington. The county has an industrial heritage and its economy was historically based on coal and iron mining...
coalfield
- Forest of Dean
The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England. The forest is a roughly triangular plateau bounded by the River Wye to the west and north, the River Severn to the south, and the City of Gloucester to the east.The...
coalfield
- Kent coalfield
The Kent coalfield was a coalfield located in the eastern part of the English county of Kent.Coal was discovered in the area in 1890 while borings for an early Channel Tunnel project were taking place and the resultant Shakespeare colliery lasted until 1915...
- Leicestershire coalfield
- Northumberland coalfield
- Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire coalfield
- Somerset coalfield
The Somerset coalfield included pits in the north Somerset, England, area where coal was mined from the 15th century until 1973.It is part of a wider coalfield which covered northern Somerset and southern Gloucestershire in England. It stretched from Cromhall in the north to the Mendip Hills in the...
- South Wales coalfield
The South Wales Coalfield is a large region of south Wales that is rich with coal deposits.- The coalfield area :The South Wales Coalfield lies in parts of the unitary authorities of Carmarthenshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Vale of Glamorgan, Merthyr Tydfil,...
- South Yorkshire Coalfield
The South Yorkshire Coalfield is defined by a triangle lying between Barnsley, Doncaster and Sheffield, though a few mines within the coalfield lie outside this area. It is part of the larger Midland coal field which stretches from Nottingham in the south to Bradford and Leeds in the north...
- North Staffordshire Coalfield
- Introduction :The North Staffordshire Coalfield is an historic Coalfield in the County of Staffordshire,England. The Coalfield emcompasses an area of nearly 100 square miles and that area is virtually wholly contained within the boundaries of the city of Stoke on Trent and the borough of...
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