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Jonas is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located on Route 534 in Polk Township. It is split between the Effort ZIP code of 18330 and the Kunkletown ZIP code of 18058.Trexler Boy Scout Reservation is located just southeast of Jonas. Polk Township Volunteer Fire Company has their sub-station located behind Hotel Jonas on Jonas Road. It currently housed their retired 1954 GMC along with an active engine and utility truck.Hotel Jonas is a big part of the Village of Jonas and has been around for many years. Jonas Snyder purchased the original inn building and surrounding land in 1858 and his family built the existing hotel in 1901. The Jonas Hotel began as a small inn that was known as "Sterner's", a rest stop for early travelers through northeastern Pennsylvania. It was situated on a stagecoach road that connected the southwestern end of the Pocono area with towns to the north such as White Haven and cities of Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. The road is presently named State Highway 534.

Tunkhannock Township is a township in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 7,037 at the 2020 census. Tunkhannock Township comprises the communities of Blakeslee and Long Pond. The most noteworthy feature of this township is the Tunkhannock creek, which forms "Long Pond", and is designated by the PA DEP as an Exceptional Value Waters (EV). The Bethlehem Authority, Nature Conservancy, Wildlands Conservancy County of Monroe Open Space Program, and PA Department of Forest and Waters have protected thousands of acres. Tunkhannock Township, PA is home to many species of globally rare, threatened, and endangered plants and animals and has been described as one of the last "great places".In Long Pond, Pennsylvania National Diversity Inventory found 35 rare, threatened or endangered species or ecological communities. The butterfly community and collection of rare plants found in Long Pond "likely represent the best assemblage of rare and unusual species of any site or habitat in Pennsylvania." Making Long Pond one of the most unique natural areas in the Northeast US.

Indian Mountain Lake is a census-designated place (CDP) in Carbon County and Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The Carbon County portion of the CDP is located in Penn Forest Township, while the Monroe County portion is in Tunkhannock and Chestnuthill townships. As of the 2020 census, the population of the community was 4,733. There are 3,262 single-family residential building lots in the community as of 2020 records.

Sun Valley is a census-designated place in NW Chestnuthill Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania on the west side of Route 115 and the south flank of Pohopoco Mountain. The Pohopoco Creek starts in Sun Valley and flows south to Gilbert then west to Beltzville Lake and the Lehigh River. New Jersey Camp Jaycee for people with special needs is located in the CDP, which uses the Effort zip code of 18330. [1] As of the 2010 census the population was 2,399 residents.

Polk Township is a township in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 7,473 at the 2020 census.

Towamensing Trails is a census-designated place (CDP) in Penn Forest Township, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The community is located directly south of Albrightsville in the southern part of the Poconos, bordered by Pennsylvania Route 903 on the northwest, separating it from Albrightsville, and by Pennsylvania Route 534 on the northeast. PA 903 leads southwest 12 miles (19 km) to Jim Thorpe, the Carbon County seat, and north 7 miles (11 km) to Interstate 80 near Blakeslee, while PA 534 leads south 9 miles (14 km) to U.S. Route 209 and west through Hickory Run State Park 14 miles (23 km) to White Haven.

Kresgeville is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Kresgeville is located on U.S. Route 209, 6 miles (9.7 km) west-southwest of Brodheadsville. Kresgeville has a post office with ZIP code 18333, which opened on January 5, 1846.

Sierra View is a census-designated place that is located in Chestnuthill and Tunkhannock Townships in Monroe County in the state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,907 residents.

Pohopoco Creek (locally known as Big Creek) is a tributary of the Lehigh River in Monroe and Carbon Counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. The creek is 27.8 miles (44.7 km) long and its watershed is 111 square miles (287 km2) in area. Beltzville Lake is formed by its damming by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Pohopoco's mouth is in Parryville. It was historically known as Heads Creek, Pocho Pochto Creek, Pohopoko Creek, and Poopoke Creek.

Long Pond is an unincorporated community in Monroe County in the Pocono Mountains region of Pennsylvania, a part of the Appalachian Mountains. Long Pond is located within the Tunkhannock Creek Watershed. Its ZIP code is 18334.

Effort, also known as Mount Effort, is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Chestnuthill Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. Effort is located along Pennsylvania Route 115 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northwest of Brodheadsville. Effort has a post office with ZIP code 18330. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,269.A post office called Effort has been in operation since 1850. According to tradition, the community was named for the considerable "effort" it took townspeople to agree on a name for the place.

Gilbert is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 430 in the 2020 census.The Pohopoco Creek runs southward through Gilbert, then westward through Beltzville Lake to the Lehigh River. Students in the village attend the Pleasant Valley School District.