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Bessemer is a borough in western Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,073 at the 2020 census. [ 5 ] It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area .
Bessemer is a populated place in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States at coordinates 40.1281278,-79.5550387 within Mount Pleasant. [1] A road named Bessemer Road is located near the coordinates for the populated place listed in the Geographic Names Information System database.
Bessemer, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.
The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad (reporting mark BLE) was a class II railroad that operates in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. The railroad's main route runs from the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio, to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, a distance of 139 miles (224 km). The original rail ancestor of the B ...
The county is part of the Southwest Pennsylvania region of the state. [a] Formed from, successively, Lancaster, Northumberland, and later Bedford counties, Westmoreland County was founded on February 26, 1773, and was the first county in the colony of Pennsylvania whose entire territorial boundary was located west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Pennsylvania Route 317 (PA 317, also designated by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation as SR 317) is a 4.8-mile-long (7.7 km) state highway located in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. The western terminus is at the Ohio state line near Bessemer , where it continues westward as Ohio State Route 630 (SR 630).
The United States Office of Management and Budget [14] has designated Lawrence County as the New Castle, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 2010 U.S. census [ 15 ] the micropolitan area ranked 3rd most populous in the State of Pennsylvania and the 48th most populous in the United States with a population of 91,108.
On February 19, 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court released its new congressional map, to take effect for the May 15, 2018, primaries. [11] The Court voted to implement the new map by a 4–3 vote. [12] The map was designed with the assistance of Stanford University law professor Nathaniel Persily. [13]