Pittsburg, North Carolina is a town in Scotch Irish Township,

Rowan County, North Carolina Rowan County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of North Carolina that was formed in 1753, as part of the British Province of North Carolina. It was originally a vast territory with unlimited western boundaries, but its size w ...

. It was named for the industrial heritage of

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 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 ...

. It is located at with an elevation of . It was first noted in an 1882 map of North Carolina by W.C. Kerr. Moore's Chapel

African Methodist Episcopal The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a predominantly African American Methodist denomination. It adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology and has a connexional polity. The African Methodist Episcopal ...

Zion Church is located in Pittsburg.Google maps

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Geography of Rowan County, North Carolina {{RowanCountyNC-geo-stub