Main city: Jermyn
Timezone: Eastern
Phone type: Landline
Operator: Choice One Communications

Jermyn, known as "The Birthplace of First Aid in America," is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, on the Lackawanna River, 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Scranton. A productive anthracite coal field was in the region in 1900 when 2,567 people lived here. In 1910, 3,158 residents of Jermyn were tallied. In the early years of the twentieth century, coal mines, cut-glass works, silk, powder, grist, planing, and saw mills, bottling works, and fertilizer factories dotted the borough. The population was 2,169 at the 2010 census. Jermyn is the mailing address of the Lakeland School District. The section of town east of the Lackawanna River and west of the small section of Archbald known as "Nebraska", East Jermyn is commonly referred to as "Calico Lane" or "The Lane". Jermyn was incorporated as a borough in 1870 and celebrated its Centennial in 1970 with a week long celebration. ^source

Area codes 570 and 272 are telephone area codes serving the northeast quadrant of Pennsylvania, including the cities of Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Williamsport, Stroudsburg and as far south as Pottsville. 570 is the main area code, while 272 is an overlay covering the same territory as 570. ^source