Mount Carbon is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States, two miles south of Pottsville.

[4] On July 16, 2015, The Pottsville Republican Herald reported that Mayor Dunkel will resign after 13 years for a job opportunity in another state.

Raess was the only person to show up to the borough council reorganization meeting, meaning there would be no functioning government in 2020.

Another option would be to merge with North Manheim Township, though that would force the borough to change school districts.

Pennsylvania Route 61 passes to the east of Mount Carbon and access is provided by a bridge over the Schuylkill River.

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.1 square miles (0.2 km2), all land.

[14] During this same year, the Norwegian and Mount Carbon Railroad was incorporated and by April 1831, coal was being conveyed through Mt.

Carbon from the rich coalfields north and west of present day Pottsville to Philadelphia.

Carbon the termination point of its railroad line from Philadelphia in direct competition with the Schuylkill Canal.

[16] In 1849, geologist Isaac Lea discovered fossilized footprints of Sauropus in red sandstone in Mount Carbon.

[17] Lea contended the tracks were reptilian and that due to the level of strata where the footprints were found, they were from the Devonian Period between 360 and 408 million years old and constituted a new species that he named Sauropus primaevus.

The footprints have since been identified as coming from an amphibian now known as Palaeosauropus primaevus from the Mississippian Age over 330 million years ago.