Swissvale

Swissvale
Logfellow School
Location of the county in Pennsylvania and location of Swissvales in the county
Basic data
Foundation :	1898
State :	United States
State :	Pennsylvania
County :	Allegheny County
Coordinates :	40 ° 25 ′  N , 79 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 25 ′  N , 79 ° 53 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	8,983 (as of 2010)
Population density :	2,897.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	3.4 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of which 3.1 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	315 m
Postal code :	15218
FIPS :	42-75816
GNIS ID :	1189193
Website :	www.swissvaleborough.com

Swissvale is a borough in Allegheny County in the US state of Pennsylvania with 8983 inhabitants. The village is 14 kilometers east of downtown Pittsburgh on Interstate 376 . George Westinghouse established the Union Switch & Signal here .

geography

Swissvales geographic coordinates are 40 ° 25 ′  N , 79 ° 53 ′  W (40.422304, −79.886185). Swissvale is bordered by Edgewood to the north, Braddock Hills to the east , North Braddock to the southeast and Rankin to the south. In the west, Swissvale borders on Regent Square and Swisshelm Park . On the opposite bank of the Monongahela River in the southwest is the Borough of Munhall .

According to the United States Census Bureau , the borough has a total area of ​​3.4 km ² , of which 3.1 km ^{2 are} land and 0.2 km ² (= 4.76%) are water.

	Edgewood	Churchill
Regent Square		Braddock Hills
	Rankin	North Braddock

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place:

• George A. Thompson (1919–2017), geologist and geophysicist
• Michael F. Doyle (born 1953), Congressman

Other personalities related to the location:

• Joseph Slepian (1891–1969), mathematician and electrical engineer; died in Swissvale
• Gene Ludwig (1937–2010), soul jazz organist; grew up in Swissvale
• Daniel DiNardo (born 1949), Archbishop of Galveston-Houston; from 1991 to 1994 pastor of the Madonna del Castello Church in Swissvale

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2010 census