Suscon, Pennsylvania

Suscon
Unincorporated community
Suscon Location within the state of Pennsylvania
Coordinates: 41°18′8″N 75°43′21″W / 41.30222°N 75.72250°W / 41.30222; -75.72250Coordinates: 41°18′8″N 75°43′21″W / 41.30222°N 75.72250°W / 41.30222; -75.72250
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Luzerne
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP code	18640
Area code(s)	570

Suscon is an unincorporated community in Pittston Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, northeast of Wilkes-Barre and south of Scranton. It is named for its position at the former junction of the Susquehanna Connecting Railroad and the Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad (both subsidiaries of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway). It uses the Pittston zip code of 18640.

Suscon is notable for being the home of the urban legend, "The Suscon Screamer."^[1]

	Dupont	Avoca, Moosic
	Yatesville, Pittston		Spring Brook Township, Lackawanna County
		Suscon
	Old Boston	Bear Creek Township	Spring Brook Township, Lackawanna County

Municipalities and communities of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
County seat: Wilkes-Barre
Cities	Hazleton Nanticoke Pittston Wilkes-Barre
Boroughs	Ashley Avoca Bear Creek Village Conyngham Courtdale Dallas Dupont Duryea Edwardsville Exeter Forty Fort Freeland Harveys Lake Hughestown Jeddo Kingston Laflin Larksville Laurel Run Luzerne Nescopeck New Columbus Nuangola Penn Lake Park Plymouth Pringle Shickshinny Sugar Notch Swoyersville Warrior Run West Hazleton West Pittston West Wyoming White Haven Wyoming Yatesville
Townships	Bear Creek Black Creek Buck Butler Conyngham Dallas Dennison Dorrance Exeter Fairmount Fairview Foster Franklin Hanover Hazle Hollenback Hunlock Huntington Jackson Jenkins Kingston Lake Lehman Nescopeck Newport Pittston Plains Plymouth Rice Ross Salem Slocum Sugarloaf Union Wilkes-Barre Wright
CDPs	Beech Mountain Lakes Browntown Chase East Berwick Georgetown Glen Lyon Harleigh Hickory Hills Hilldale Hudson Huntington Mills Inkerman Lattimer Mocanaqua Mountain Top Nuremberg‡ Pardeesville Pikes Creek Plains Shavertown Sheatown Silkworth Trucksville Upper Exeter Wanamie West Nanticoke Weston
Unincorporated communities	Alden Back Mountain Breslau Cranberry Drifton Drums Ebervale Glen Summit Springs Harveyville Harwood Humboldt Japan Kis-Lyn Koonsville Korn Krest Kunkle Milnesville Mossville Mountain Grove Old Boston Port Griffith Sandy Run Stockton Suscon Sweet Valley Sybertsville Tomhicken Wapwallopen Waterton Zenith
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

References