A decade of Marcellus Shale: Impacts to people, policy, and culture from 2008 to 2018 in the Greater Mid-Atlantic region of the United States

•Approximately 15,939 wells have been drilled and fracked at 5674 sites, producing more than 41,675,025 MMcf of natural gas and billions of barrels of gas and oil liquids.•This decennial documents the pace, scale, and stages of actual development and takes stock of the social science on impacts to communities, people, policies, and culture.•We detail the size and distribution of multi-well pad development across the Mid-Atlantic.•We examine the perceived impacts to residents in Ohio amid complex historical natural resource lineages.•We conclude with a discussion of research opportunities and directions as a new generation of social scientists document future development in the Marcellus and Utica Shales.