Grindstone 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 ...
and
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), 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 counte ...
that is located in
Jefferson and
Redstone townships, in
Fayette County,
Pennsylvania
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, United States. The community was part of the
Grindstone-Rowes Run CDP before it was split into two separate CDPs for the
2010 census. In 2010, the population was 498.
The
ZIP code for this community is 15442.
Geography
Grindstone is primarily located in southern Jefferson Township but extends south across
Redstone Creek into the northern part of Redstone Township. It is bordered to the southeast by the community of
Rowes Run.
Fayette City is to the north, and
Uniontown, the Fayette County seat, is to the southeast.
Brownsville is to the west.
Demographics
As of the 2020 U.S. Census, this town's population was 489.
References
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Census-designated places in Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Census-designated places in Pennsylvania