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Butler County, Pennsylvania
Butler County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Butler
Year Organized: 1800
Square Miles: 789
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Court House: 124 W Diamond Street
County Courthouse
Butler, PA 16001-5780
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for General Richard Butler.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created on March 12, 1800, from part
of Allegheny County and named for General Richard Butler. It was attached to
Allegheny County until 1803. Butler, the county seat, was laid out in 1803,
incorporated as a borough on February 26, 1817, and as a second-class city on 7,
1918.
Made up of Donation and Depreciation lands that were intended to compensate
Revolutionary War veterans, Butler was the scene of many disputes over land
titles in its early years. Detmar Basse's Zelienople and John A. Roebling's
Saxonburg were early manufacturing centers.
The utopian Harmony Society resided here from 1804 to 1814. Butler was an
Underground Railroad station. An oil boom occurred briefly during the mid-1860s,
followed by natural gas production. Bituminous coal mining later developed and
is still strong. By World War II, the county was making railroad cars, military
vehicles, rolled steel, glass, and gasoline. Defying the decline of industry and
population that western Pennsylvania has seen since the 1960s, Butler goes right
on producing light metal, rubber, printed, and optical items. The value added to
the economy by Butler County's manufacturing increased by 50 percent between
1987 and 1992. Farming continues to be financially successful. The population
growth is associated with Pittsburgh's residential population exodus.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Adams |
township |
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- Barkeyville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Bruin |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Buffalo |
township |
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- Butler
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Callery |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Center |
township |
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- Cherry |
township |
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- Cherry Valley |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Chicora |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Connoquenessing |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- East Butler |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Eau Claire |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Evans City |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Forward |
township |
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- Harmony |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Harrisville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Karns City |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Mars |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Muddy Creek |
township |
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- Petrolia |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Point |
township |
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- Portersville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Prospect |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Saxonburg |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Seven Fields |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Slippery Rock |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Valencia |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- West Liberty |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- West Sunbury |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Worth |
township |
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- Zelienople |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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