Cresson
Cresson is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. Cresson is 80 miles east of Pittsburgh. It is above 2,000 feet in elevation. Lumber, coal, and coke yards were industries that had supported the population, which numbered 1,470 in 1910.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,520 residents
- Description: borough in Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “Cresson, PA” and “Cresson, Pennsylvania”
- Postal codes: 16630 and 16699
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cresson Presbyterian Church and State Correctional Institution – Cresson.
State Correctional Institution – Cresson
Prison
State Correctional Institution – Cresson was a medium-security, all male correctional facility, located off U.S. Route 22, about 10 miles west of Altoona along Old Route 22 in the Western part of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. State Correctional Institution – Cresson is situated 2 miles southeast of Cresson.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cassandra and Kaylor.
Cassandra
Suburb
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Cassandra is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 147 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. Cassandra is situated 4½ miles southwest of Cresson.
Kaylor
Hamlet
Kaylor is an unincorporated community in northern Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. It lies between Johnstown and Altoona, approximately 80 miles east of Pittsburgh. It is part of Munster Township, Pennsylvania. Kaylor is situated 4½ miles northwest of Cresson.
Oil City
Hamlet
Oil City is an unincorporated community in east-central Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States, located at the confluence of Bens Creek and the Little Conemaugh River. The bridge over Bens Creek is on the National Register of Historic Places. Oil City is situated 4½ miles southwest of Cresson.
Cresson
- Categories: borough of Pennsylvania and locality
- Location: Borough of Cresson, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.45979° or 40° 27′ 35″ northLongitude
-78.59168° or 78° 35′ 30″ westPopulation
1,520Elevation
2,018 feet (615 metres)United Nations Location Code
US CR8Open location code
87G3FC55+W8OpenStreetMap ID
node 158619256OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Cresson” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كريسون”
- Armenian: “Քրեսոն”
- Azerbaijani: “Kresson”
- Basque: “Cresson”
- Catalan: “Cresson”
- Cebuano: “Cresson”
- Chechen: “Крессон”
- Chinese: “Cresson”
- Danish: “Cresson”
- Dutch: “Cresson”
- French: “Cresson”
- German: “Cresson”
- Gilaki: “کرسن (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “کرسن”
- Haitian: “Cresson, Pennsilvani”
- Haitian: “Cresson”
- Hebrew: “קרסון”
- Irish: “Cresson”
- Italian: “Cresson”
- Ladin: “Cresson”
- Malagasy: “Cresson, Pennsylvania”
- Malagasy: “Cresson”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cresson”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cresson”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cresson”
- Portuguese: “Cresson”
- Serbian: “Кресон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cresson, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cresson”
- Slovenian: “Cresson”
- Spanish: “Cresson (Pensilvania)”
- Spanish: “Cresson”
- Swedish: “Cresson”
- Tatar: “Крессон”
- Ukrainian: “Крессон”
- Uzbek: “Cresson”
- Uzbek: “Cрессон”
- Vietnamese: “Cresson, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Cresson”
- Volapük: “Cresson”
- Welsh: “Cresson, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Cresson”
- Western Frisian: “Cresson”
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