Pittsburgh Region
Allegheny County
Borough of West Homestead

West Homestead

West Homestead is a borough in , United States, 8 miles southeast of , on the Monongahela River. Heavy industries associated with nearby steel mills existed here, such as axle works, brickworks, and manufactories of machinery, car wheels, etc.
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  • Type: Village with 2,030 residents
  • Description: borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Also known as: “West Homestead, PA” and “West Homestead, Pennsylvania”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sandcastle Waterpark and Carnegie Library of Homestead.

Theme park
is a water park located in the Pittsburgh suburb of West Homestead. It opened in 1989, and is located on a 67-acre piece of land along the banks of the Monongahela River.

Library
Photo: Leepaxton, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a public library in founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1898. It is one of 2,509 Carnegie libraries worldwide, 1,689 of which were built in the United States.

Bridge
Photo: PixOnTrax, Public domain.
The Glenwood B&O Railroad Bridge is a truss bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which carries Allegheny Valley Railroad's W&P Subdivision over the Monongahela River.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Munhall and Whitaker.

Village
Photo: Leepaxton, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a borough in , United States, on the west bank of the Monongahela River. The population was 10,774 at the 2020 census.

Village
Photo: Whitaker, Public domain.
is a borough in , United States, and is on the Monongahela River 3 miles upriver from . The population was 1,179 at the 2020 census.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is represented on Pittsburgh City Council by Barb Warwick. It is bordered by and on the north, and Glen Hazel on the east, and the Monongahela River on the south and west. is situated 2 miles northwest of West Homestead.

West Homestead

Latitude
40.39396° or 40° 23′ 38″ north
Longitude
-79.912° or 79° 54′ 43″ west
Population
2,030
Elevation
1,040 feet (317 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US YWE
Open location code
87G293VQ+H6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 157627133
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5218750
Wiki­data ID
Q1185864
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“West Homestead” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “West Homestead”
  • Catalan: “West Homestead”
  • Cebuano: “West Homestead”
  • Chechen: “Вест-Гомстед”
  • Chinese: “West Homestead”
  • Danish: “West Homestead”
  • Dutch: “West Homestead”
  • French: “West Homestead”
  • German: “West Homestead”
  • Gilaki: “وست هؤم‌استد (پنسيلوانيا)”
  • Gilaki: “وست هؤم‌استد”
  • Greek: “Γουέστ Χόουμστεντ”
  • Haitian: “West Homestead, Pennsilvani”
  • Haitian: “West Homestead”
  • Hebrew: “מערב הומסטד”
  • Italian: “West Homestead”
  • Ladin: “West Homestead”
  • Malagasy: “West Homestead, Pennsylvania”
  • Malagasy: “West Homestead”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “West Homestead”
  • Portuguese: “West Homestead”
  • Serbian: “Вест Хомстед”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “West Homestead, Pennsylvania”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “West Homestead”
  • Spanish: “West Homestead, Pensilvania”
  • Spanish: “West Homestead”
  • Tatar: “Вест-Гомстед”
  • Ukrainian: “Вест-Гомстед”
  • Uzbek: “West Homestead”
  • Uzbek: “Wест Ҳоместеад”
  • Vietnamese: “West Homestead, Pennsylvania”
  • Vietnamese: “West Homestead”
  • Volapük: “West Homestead”
  • Welsh: “West Homestead, Pennsylvania”
  • Welsh: “West Homestead”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as New Homestead and Homestead Park.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include West Homestead Community Park and William V. Campbell Athletic Field.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “West Homestead”. Photo: Albright.kevin.s, CC BY-SA 3.0.