Lehigh
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Places
United States- Lehigh, IowaLehigh, IowaLehigh is a city in Webster County, Iowa, United States. The population was 497 at the 2000 census.Located in a valley, Lehigh is divided in two by the Des Moines River, unusual for such a small town. Originally the two halves of Lehigh were two separate towns...
- Lehigh, KansasLehigh, KansasLehigh is a city in Marion County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 175.-19th century:For millennia, the land that is currently Kansas was inhabited by Native Americans. In 1803, most of modern Kansas was secured by the United States as part of the Louisiana...
- Lehigh, OklahomaLehigh, OklahomaLehigh is a city in Coal County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 315 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Lehigh is located at ....
- Lehigh Acres, FloridaLehigh Acres, FloridaLehigh Acres is a census-designated place in Lee County, Florida, United States. The US Census Bureau estimates the CDP's population at 67,867 as of 2006...
- Lehigh Township (disambiguation)
- Lehigh ValleyLehigh ValleyThe Lehigh Valley, known officially by the United States Census Bureau as the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan area and referred to locally as The Valley and A-B-E, is a metropolitan region consisting of Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, and Carbon counties in eastern Pennsylvania and...
, a region in eastern Pennsylvania- Lehigh CanalLehigh CanalThe Lehigh Canal was constructed by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company to carry anthracite from the upper Lehigh Valley to the urban markets of the northeast, especially Philadelphia...
, constructed along the Lehigh River - Lehigh County, PennsylvaniaLehigh County, Pennsylvania-Climate:Most of the county's climate is considered to fall in the humid continental climate zone. Summers are typically hot and muggy, fall and spring are generally mild, and winter is cold. Precipitation is almost uniformly distributed throughout the year....
- Lehigh Valley AVALehigh Valley AVAThe Lehigh Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. The AVA includes portions of Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Schuylkill, Carbon, and Monroe counties...
, Pennsylvania wine region - Lehigh County BallparkLehigh County BallparkCoca-Cola Park is a 8,100-seat baseball park in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. It is the home field for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Triple-A level minor league baseball affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies....
, Allentown - Lehigh Gap, PennsylvaniaLehigh Gap, PennsylvaniaThe Lehigh Gap, located in Lower Towamensing Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, is a water gap formed by the Lehigh River where it cuts through Blue Mountain in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States. The gap allows easy travel between Carbon County to the north and Lehigh and...
, a mountain gap formed by the Lehigh River - Lehigh ParkwayLehigh ParkwayLehigh Parkway is a large public park along the Little Lehigh River in the city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States.It is the most prominent park of the city and follows the Little Lehigh Creek for three miles from the center of the city to Cedar Crest Boulevard.The park features many...
, a park in Allentown - Lehigh RiverLehigh RiverThe Lehigh River, a tributary of the Delaware River, is a river located in eastern Pennsylvania, in the United States. Part of the Lehigh, along with a number of its tributaries, is designated a Pennsylvania Scenic River by the state's Department of Conservation and Natural Resources...
, a tributary of the Delaware River - Lehigh StreetLehigh StreetLehigh Street is a major road that connects Emmaus, Pennsylvania in the west to Allentown, Pennsylvania in the east, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States...
, Allentown - Lehigh TunnelLehigh TunnelThe Lehigh Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels that carries the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension under the Blue Mountain north from Interstate 78 to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area between mileposts 70.7 to 71.5. The tunnel was called the Lehigh Tunnel to avoid confusion with the existing...
, along the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike - Lehigh UniversityLehigh UniversityLehigh University is a private, co-educational university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the United States. It was established in 1865 by Asa Packer as a four-year technical school, but has grown to include studies in a wide variety of disciplines...
, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania - Little Lehigh CreekLittle Lehigh CreekThe Little Lehigh Creek is approximately long, in eastern Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is also sometimes referred to as the Little Lehigh River. It is called the Little Lehigh because it is the largest tributary of the Lehigh River....
, a tributary of Jordan Creek
- Lehigh Canal
Fictional
- Lehigh Station, Pennsylvania, a fictional town in the television miniseries North and SouthNorth and South (TV miniseries)North and South is the title of three American television miniseries broadcast on the ABC network in 1985, 1986, and 1994. Set before, during, and immediately after the American Civil War, they are based on the 1980s trilogy of novels North and South by John Jakes. The 1985 first installment, North...
Railroads
- Lehigh and Hudson River RailwayLehigh and Hudson River RailwayThe Lehigh and Hudson River Railway was the smallest of the six railroads that were merged into Conrail in 1976. It was a bridge line running northeast-southwest across northwestern New Jersey, connecting the line to the Poughkeepsie Bridge at Maybrook, New York with Easton, Pennsylvania, where it...
- Lehigh and Mahanoy RailroadLehigh and Mahanoy RailroadThe Lehigh and Mahanoy Railroad, originally the Quakake Railroad , was part of the Mahanoy Branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad in northeastern Pennsylvania.-History:...
- Lehigh and New England RailroadLehigh and New England RailroadThe Lehigh and New England Railroad was a connection from northeastern Pennsylvania towards the Poughkeepsie Bridge across the Hudson River. Originally planned as a continuous line east to Boston, plans were later cut back to a section west of the river....
- Lehigh Valley RailroadLehigh Valley RailroadThe Lehigh Valley Railroad was one of a number of railroads built in the northeastern United States primarily to haul anthracite coal.It was authorized April 21, 1846 in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and incorporated September 20, 1847 as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad...