Pocono Pines Map
Pocono Pines is a census-designated place (CDP) in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,013 at the 2000 census.
Pocono Pines is located at 41°6?54?N 75°27?37?W / 41.115°N 75.46028°W / 41.115; -75.46028 (41.114976, -75.460408). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.4 square miles (11.4 km²), of which, 4.0 square miles (10.3 km²) of it is land and 0.4 square miles (1.1 km²) of it (9.95%) is water.
Pocono Pines is located in the heart of the Pocono Mountains and is home to the communities of Lake Naomi and Pinecrest Lake. Most of the land was originally owned by the Miller family. Frank C. Miller, his brother Rufus W. Miller, and others, bought lands on Tunkhannock Creek in Tobyhanna Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, organized a corporation known as the Pocono Spring Water Ice Company sometime in the 1890s. In September 1895, a 14-foot (4.3 m) dam was constructed across the creek and water began backing-up forming "Lake Naomi", a lake more than a mile long and about one-third of a mile wide. The Ice Company was granted a 99-year lease for "the exclusive use of the water and its privileges." It was chartered for the purpose of "erecting a dam, for pleasure, boating, skating, fishing and the cutting, storing and selling of ice."
Nearby cities include Albrightsville, Mountainhome, Effort, Brodheadsville, Stroudsburg.