Swoyersville is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States.

In 1972, the town was severely flooded by the Susquehanna River as a result of Hurricane Agnes.

At the time, there was great concern that many of the flooded abandoned mine tunnels — running underneath Swoyersville — would cave-in.

[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.5 km2), all land.

Swoyersville's terrain is flat in the south, with the northern part of the borough being hilly.

[5] A massive pile of coal ash as high as a 17-story building is in the town, surrounded by homes.

The pile is enough to fill 26,000 rail cars, and the mayor Christopher Concert advocates for it to be hauled away, if state and federal funding can be secured, even though he used it for sledding in the winter as a child.