HAZLETON, a city of Luzerne county, Pa., U.S.A., 3om. S. of Wilkes-Barre. It is on Federal highway 3o9, and is served by the Lehigh Valley, the Pennsylvania and the Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton (electric) railways. The population was 32,277 in 1920 (19% foreign-born white) and it was 36,765 in 193o by the Federal census. Hazleton is beautifully situated, on a broad table land about 1,800ft. above sea-level on Nescopeck or Buck moun tain, a spur of the Blue mountains. It is one of the important cities of the anthracite region, with large collieries surrounding it. The local coal industry dates from 1837. A hospital for the care of persons injured in the mines is maintained here by the State. The chief manufactures are silk, knit goods, shirts, iron, sheet steel, pumps, caskets and brushes. There is a large electric power plant. The assessed valuation of property in 1926 was $26,531,768. Hazleton was founded in 1820; incorporated as a borough in 1856; and as a city in 1891. It has a commission form of government.