Lemont Furnace is an
unincorporated community
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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 ...
in
North Union Township,
Fayette County,
Pennsylvania
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, United States. It is located northeast of the city of
Uniontown and approximately southeast of
Pittsburgh
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. The community is part of the
Pittsburgh metropolitan area
Greater Pittsburgh is the metropolitan area surrounding the city of Pittsburgh in Western Pennsylvania, United States. The region includes Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh's urban core county and economic hub, and s ...
. At the
2010 census, the population of Lemont Furnace was 827.
Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus
Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus is a commonwealth campus of the Pennsylvania State University and located in Lemont Furnace, Pennsylvania. The campus serves students from the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania covering a five-county ar ...
, a
Commonwealth Campus of the
Pennsylvania State University system, is located north of Lemont Furnace. The campus serves the students of Fayette, Greene, Somerset, Washington, and Westmoreland counties in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Demographics
The
2020 United States census gave the population as 715 people.
References
External links
Lemont Furnace, coal patch town
Census-designated places in Pennsylvania
Census-designated places in Fayette County, Pennsylvania
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