Dawson
Dawson is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 352 at the 2020 census, a decline from the figure of 367 tabulated in 2010.Photo: Canadian2006, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 429 residents
- Description: borough of Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “Dawson, PA” and “Dawson, Pennsylvania”
- Postal code: 15428
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dickerson Run and Broad Ford.
Dickerson Run
Hamlet
Dickerson Run is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located along the Youghiogheny River, 0.9 miles north of Vanderbilt.
Broad Ford
Hamlet
Broadford, or Broad Ford, is an unincorporated community in Connellsville Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh in the United States. Broad Ford is situated 2½ miles east of Dawson.
Leisenring
Hamlet
Leisenring is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located 3.2 miles west-southwest of Connellsville. The Leisenring post office carries ZIP code 15455. Leisenring is situated 3½ miles south of Dawson.
Dawson
- Categories: borough of Pennsylvania and locality
- Location: Lower Tyrone Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.04703° or 40° 2′ 49″ northLongitude
-79.65554° or 79° 39′ 20″ westPopulation
429Elevation
856 feet (261 metres)Open location code
87G228WV+RQOpenStreetMap ID
node 158510456OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5186452Wikidata ID
Q1133217
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Dawson” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Dawson”
- Catalan: “Dawson”
- Cebuano: “Dawson”
- Chechen: “Досон”
- Chinese: “Dawson”
- Dutch: “Dawson”
- French: “Dawson”
- Galician: “Dawson”
- German: “Dawson”
- Gilaki: “داؤسن (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “داؤسن”
- Haitian: “Dawson, Pennsilvani”
- Haitian: “Dawson”
- Italian: “Dawson”
- Ladin: “Dawson”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dawson”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dawson (Pennsylvania)”
- Norwegian: “Dawson”
- Polish: “Dawson”
- Portuguese: “Dawson”
- Serbian: “Досон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dawson, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dawson”
- Spanish: “Dawson”
- Tatar: “Досон”
- Ukrainian: “Досон”
- Urdu: “ڈاوسن، پنسلوانیا”
- Urdu: “ڈاوسن”
- Uzbek: “Dawson”
- Uzbek: “Даwсон”
- Vietnamese: “Dawson, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Dawson”
- Volapük: “Dawson”
- Welsh: “Dawson, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Dawson”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include P&LE Dickerson Run roundhouse and Dickerson Run-Union Cemetery.
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