- This article refers to the valley region in Pennsylvania. A
lesser-known Wyoming Valley exists in western New York in
Wyoming County, where the valley of Oatka Creek is commonly
known as the Wyoming Valley and includes the villages of Wyoming
and Warsaw. The valley is a crescent-shaped depression, a part
of the ridge-and-valley or folded Appalachians. The Susquehanna
River occupies the southern part of the valley, which is notable
for its deposits of anthracite which have been extensively
mined. Deep mining has declined, however, following the 1959
Knox Mine Disaster when the roof of the Knox Coal Company's mine
under the river collapsed. Metropolitan Statistical Area  The
Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area
covers Lackawanna, Luzerne and Wyoming counties. It had a
combined population of 563,936 in 2011, according to
TrueKnowledge.com. The area also has the highest percentage of
non-Hispanic whites of any U.S. metropolitan area with a
population over 500,000, with 96.2% of the p