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Blainsburg, Pennsylvania | |
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unincorporated area | |
| Blainsburg, Pennsylvania | |
| Nickname: California-3 | |
 Interactive map of Blainsburg, Pennsylvania | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Washington |
| Established | 1800s |
| Government Blainsburg is a Annex of West Brownsville | |
| • Type | Annex ofWest Brownsville |
| Elevation Elevation reported at point where GoogleEarth locates search to "Blainsburg, West Brownsville, PA[1] | 957 ft (292 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| Postal code | 15417 |
| Area code | 724 |
Blainsburg is anunincorporated community inWashington County,Pennsylvania, United States. Blainsburg is an outlier community ofWest Brownsville, Pennsylvania – a hamlet-sized neighborhood with more housing acreage than West Brownsville proper. Named afterJames G. Blaine, Blainsburg is part of theCalifornia Area School District. West Brownsville students attendBrownsville Area School District inFayette County. Thebedroom community is situated on the bluff above and slightly north-northwest of West Brownsville on the river bottom below.Blainsburg is located alongside and above thePA Route 88 climb from the W. Brownsville river flats (locally known asBlainsburg Hill Road) which bends right, entering a shelf where it connects with the northwest streets of Blainsburg before taking a second ascent (now becomingCalifornia Road) towardsCalifornia.[2] The parent and child communities are on the inside curve of a great meander in theMonongahela River inSouthwesternPennsylvania creating a degradedcut bank turned ramp and terrace on the opposite shore whereBrownsville is situated. Blainsburg is often misspelled with an "E" in it, to match the spelling of its namesake,James G. Blaine. Blainsburg as of official records was founded in 1906 and is still spelled without the "E".
The majority of elevations[3] in (very flat) West Brownsville average 770–780 feet (230–240 m), while only a short distance away, the elevations in the larger street grid of Blainsburg run from 930–1,040 feet (280–320 m). Measured at Pittsburgh Rd. Jct. with 5th Avenue, the elevation in Blainsburg is 940 feet (290 m), nearly 170 feet (52 m) above the junction of Main St. and Pittsburgh Rd. in West Brownsville. TheGoogleEarth ruler tool reports the distance between the two points is 980 feet (300 m)—agradient of 18.57%.
Pennsylvania Route 88 climbs roughly parallel (starting from farther south in West Brownsville and rises at a slower rate, so the higher side of Blainsburg is atop a bluff lining and overlooking the moderated climb of the highway.) In addition, Blainsburg over looks arail yard and an railroad bridge built by theMonongahela Railroad tying therailroad wye, sidings, and small yard in Brownsville along Albany Road with the much larger yard in West Brownsville.
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