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Blainsburg, Pennsylvania | |
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unincorporated area | |
| Blainsburg, Pennsylvania | |
| Nickname: California-3 | |
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| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Washington |
| Government Blainsburg is a Annex of West Brownsville | |
| • Type | Annex of West 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) |
| Area code | 724 |
Blainsburg is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. Blainsburg is an outlier community of West Brownsville, Pennsylvania – a hamlet-sized neighborhood with more housing acreage than West Brownsville proper. Named after James G. Blaine, Blainsburg is part of the California Area School District. West Brownsville students attend Brownsville Area School District in Fayette County. The bedroom 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 the PA Route 88 climb from the W. Brownsville river flats (locally known as Blainsburg Hill Road) which bends right, entering a shelf where it connects with the northwest streets of Blainsburg before taking a second ascent (now becoming California Road) towards California.[2] The parent and child communities are on the inside curve of a great meander in the Monongahela River in Southwestern Pennsylvania creating a degraded cut bank turned ramp and terrace on the opposite shore where Brownsville 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".
- ^ Elevation at point where GoogleEarth locates search to "Blainsburg, West Brownsville, PA"
- ^ PA Route 88 is an old style two lane highway that connects the business districts of left bank communities in the Mon Valley.