Chewton is an

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and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

(CDP) in Lawrence County,

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

, United States. The population was 488 at the 2010 census.

Geography

Chewton is located in southern Lawrence County at (40.8976, -80.3184), in the northwestern part of Wayne Township. It sits on a bluff overlooking the east bank of the Beaver River. It is bordered across the river by the borough of

Wampum Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans. It includes white shell beads hand-fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell and white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western Nort ...

. Chewton is south of New Castle, the

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Pennsylvania Route 288 Pennsylvania Route 288 (PA 288) or State Route 288 is an east–west route in western Pennsylvania, United States. The highway is 15.4 miles (24 km) long and runs from PA 18 in Wampum east to the US 19/ PA 68 concurrency in Zelienople. ...

passes through the southwestern side of the community, leading west across the Beaver River into Wampum and southeast to

Ellwood City Ellwood City is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough primarily in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States, with a small district in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Beaver County. The population was 7,031 at the 2020 ...

. According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , of which , or 1.06%, are water. Via the Beaver River, Chewton is part of the

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watershed.

Demographics

References

{{Pittsburgh Metro Area Census-designated places in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania