Presto is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

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, United States. The community is located along

Chartiers Creek Chartiers Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River in Western Pennsylvania in the United States. The creek was named after Peter Chartier, a trapper of French and Native American parentage who established a trading post at the mouth of the cr ...

, southwest of

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. Presto has a

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, with ZIP code 15142, which opened on March 3, 1903. Thoms Run, a tributary of Chartiers Creek, has its confluence here.

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Unincorporated communities in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania {{AlleghenyCountyPA-geo-stub