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Farmington is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
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, suc ...
in Wharton Township, Fayette 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. It is located along
U.S. Route 40 U.S. Route 40 or U.S. Highway 40 (US 40), also known as the Main Street of America, is a major east–west United States Highway traveling across the United States from the Mountain States to the Mid-Atlantic States. As with most routes wh ...
, the
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, about southeast of
Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...
, and is the closest settlement to Fort Necessity National Battlefield. It is also home to
Historic Summit Inn Resort Historic Summit Inn Resort, also known as the Summit Hotel, is a historic hotel complex and national historic district located atop the Summit Mountain of Chestnut Ridge by North Union Township and South Union Township in Farmington, Fayette ...
, the 4-star Nemacolin Woodlands Resort and the New Meadow Run and Spring Valley Bruderhofs, two of a group of international Christian communities with about 200 members in each. As of the 2010 census the population of Farmington was 767.


Geography

Farmington is located in northeastern Wharton Township at
geographical coordinates The geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or ellipsoidal coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on the Earth as latitude and longitude. It is the simplest, oldest and most widely used of the vario ...
39° 48′ 28″ North, 79° 34′ 1″ West (39.807220, -79.566154). Via US Route 40, Uniontown, the Fayette County seat, is to the northwest, and
Cumberland, Maryland Cumberland is a U.S. city in and the county seat of Allegany County, Maryland. It is the primary city of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 19,076. Located on the Potomac River, ...
, is to the southeast. Pittsburgh is to the northwest via US 40 and
Pennsylvania Route 51 Pennsylvania Route 51 (PA 51) is a major state highway in Western Pennsylvania. It runs for from Uniontown to the Ohio state line near Darlington, where it connects with Ohio State Route 14. PA 51 is the termination point for Pennsylvania R ...
. The U.S. Postal Service ZIP code for Farmington is 15437.


Demographics


See also

* Farmington Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania * Farmington Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania *
Farmington Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania Farmington Township is a township in Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,281 at the 2020 census, up from 1,259 in 2010. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of ...
* Mertztown, Pennsylvania, which includes a small village named Farmington


References


External links


Fort Necessity National Battlefield

Nemacolin Woodlands Resort & Mystic Rock golf course

Spring Valley Bruderhof CommunitySummit Inn
{{authority control Census-designated places in Pennsylvania Census-designated places in Fayette County, Pennsylvania