Calumet, Pennsylvania | |
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| Etymology: Calumet Coke Company | |
  Calumet, Pennsylvania Location of Calumet in Pennsylvania  Calumet, Pennsylvania Calumet, Pennsylvania (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 40°12′49″N 79°29′35″W / 40.21361°N 79.49306°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Westmoreland |
| Township | Mount Pleasant |
| Founded | 1888 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.18 sq mi (5.65 km2) |
| • Land | 2.18 sq mi (5.65 km2) |
| • Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,000 ft (300 m) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 1,145 |
| • Density | 524.99/sq mi (202.71/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 15621 |
| Area code | Area code 724 |
| FIPS code | 42-10832 |
Calumet is a census-designated place in Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. Although the United States Census Bureau included it as a census-designated place with the nearby community of Norvelt for the 2000 census, they are in reality two very different communities, each reflecting a different chapter in how the Great Depression affected rural Pennsylvanians. As of the 2010 census, Calumet-Norvelt was divided into two separate CDPs officially. Calumet was a typical "patch town," another name for a coal town, built by a single company to house coal miners as cheaply as possible. The closing of the Calumet mine during the Great Depression caused enormous hardship in an era when unemployment compensation and welfare payments were nonexistent. On the other hand, Norvelt was created during the depression by the US federal government as a model community, intended to increase the standard of living of laid-off coal miners.[3]
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