Pittsburg, Kansas Pittsburg, Kansas Downtown Pittsburg (2012) Downtown Pittsburg (2012) Location inside Crawford County and Kansas Location inside Crawford County and Kansas State Kansas Pittsburg is a town/city in Crawford County, Kansas, United States, positioned in Southeast Kansas near the Missouri state border.
It is the most crowded city in Crawford County and southeastern Kansas.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 20,233. Andrew Jackson Piercy near the current Pittsburg Waste Water Treatment Plant.
Pittsburg sprang up in the fall of 1876 on a barns line being assembled through the neighborhood. It was titled after Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and maps of the time give the town's name as "New Pittsburgh".
The town/city was incorporated in 1879. The "New" was dropped upon incorporation of the City as a third class town/city on June 21, 1880, with M.
In 1892 it was advanced to a town/city of the second class, in 1905 Pittsburg attained the project of first class.
For this reason, the United States Board on Geographic Names altered the city's official name as part of a country-wide standardization accomplishment.
Roach in July 1876. The first postal service in Pittsburg was established in August, 1876.
The postal service's name was spelled as Pittsburgh and New Pittsburgh for some time before 1894. In 1910, the populace of Pittsburg was over 14,000.
Pittsburg is the home to Pittsburg State University, established in 1903 as a normal training institution.
A relic of the city's coal quarrying days was the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Company, established in 1885, and one of the earliest continuously running coal companies in the United States (even though its command posts moved a several years ago to Denver, Colorado after the Kansas mines closed).
Coal quarrying division to form Chevron Mining, thus ending the Pittsburg corporate name. Midway referred to a coal camp in easterly Crawford County, Kansas that was "midway" between Baxter Springs, Kansas and Fort Scott, Kansas. Kenneth A.
Pittsburg was also the most heavily unionized town/city in Kansas at the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to some coal mining, the economic base of the City now rests on industry.
The town/city has a rich cultural tradition from many Southern and Eastern European mine workers who settled in and around Pittsburg and Southeastern Kansas.
Pittsburg is positioned at 37 24 37 N 94 41 59 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.90 square miles (33.41 km2), of which, 12.80 square miles (33.15 km2) is territory and 0.10 square miles (0.26 km2) is water. Pittsburg sits in the Ozark Highlands region, a mix of prairie and forests.
It lies 90 miles (140 km) west of Springfield, Missouri, 124 miles (200 km) south of Kansas City, Missouri, and 137 miles (220 km) northeast of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Pittsburg has a humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa) bordering on a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa).
Summers are very hot, humid and uncomfortable, with as many as 73 mornings per year staying above 68 F or 20 C and eight mornings remaining above 77 F or 25 C indeed in July 2012 the temperature did not fall below 69 F or 20.6 C. The hottest morning, however, was on August 10, 2006 when the temperature did not fall below 83 F (28.3 C), and the hottest temperature has been 115 F (46.1 C) on July 13 and 14, 1954.
However, long periods of dangerously hot weather without much precipitation are not uncommon: only trace rain fell between July 28 and September 10, 2000, and only 0.22 inches (5.6 mm) between July 7 and August 20, 1984.
During the fall season, temperatures cool off fairly rapidly: the last 90 F or 32.2 C temperature can be expected on September 22, and by the end of October temperatures have usually declined to a comfortable level.
Heavy rainfall from frontal systems or remnant tropical storms are common amid this period: the wettest day with 8.77 inches (222.8 mm) was on September 25, 1993, a year which saw 47.85 inches (1,215.4 mm) between April and September as against only 10.54 inches (267.7 mm) amid the same reconstructionin 1980.
September 1993 was also the wettest month on record with 19.37 inches (492.0 mm), while the wettest calendar year overall has been 1985 with 66.52 inches (1,689.6 mm) and the driest 1963 with only 21.50 inches (546.1 mm).
As with all of Kansas, winter weather is extremely variable, although extreme maxima are not as hot as in the southwest of the state as Pittsburg is far from the influence of hot chinook winds.
Arctic outbreaks bring temperatures to or below 0 F or 17.8 C on average once per winter, whilst maxima over 70 F or 21.1 C can be expected four times between December and February.
Winter weather is less dry than in most of Kansas since moist Gulf air often penetrates without reaching most of the state: December 2015 saw 7.91 inches (200.9 mm) of rain, and the very cold January 1979 saw sixteen days with at least 0.01 inches or 0.25 millimetres of calculable precipitation.
Because the moister air populace are warm, heavy snow flurry is uncommon in Pittsburg: the mean is 11.9 inches or 0.30 metres and only twelve months have seen more than 10 inches or 0.25 metres, with the most in a month being 24.5 inches (0.62 m) in January 1979.
The most snow in a day has been 13 inches (0.33 m) on December 13, 2000, and the most snow on the ground 14 inches (0.36 m) on February 4 and 5, 2011 and March 17, 1970.
Spring weather is changeable and often suspect to harsh storms: Pittsburg lies in the heart of "Tornado Alley".
The changeable weather from hot to cold can be accompanied by incessant heavy precipitation: Pittsburg can expect 20.24 inches or 514.1 millimetres of rain between March and June, approximately what Dodge City or Liberal further west receive in a whole year.
Temperatures warm up erratically amid the spring: the first temperature of 80 F (26.7 C) can be expected on March 27, but the first of 90 F (32.2 C) does not normally occur until May 28.
Climate data for Pittsburg, Kansas Average rain days ( 0.01 inch) 7 7 9 9 11 10 8 7 8 7 7 7 94 There were 8,142 homeholds of which 27.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 33.3% were married couples living together, 12.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.8% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 49.8% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 26.2 years.
20.7% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 27% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 23.3% were from 25 to 44; 17.3% were from 45 to 64; and 11.7% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 7,980 homeholds out of which 25.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 38.0% were married couples living together, 11.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 47.2% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 20.8% under the age of 18, 24.1% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 16.8% from 45 to 64, and 14.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
Little Balkans Days is a celebration that is unique to Pittsburg.
Pittsburg Aquatic Center The Pittsburg government consists of a mayor and four council members.
Pittsburg High School (2007) Pittsburg Public Library (2008) Pittsburg Community Schools operates the following enhance schools: Pittsburg High School Pittsburg Community Middle School Pittsburg State University Pittsburg Public Library Axe Library, Pittsburg State University offers improve library cards.
Main article: Media in Pittsburg, Kansas The Pittsburg Morning Sun is the chief journal in the city, presented five days a week. In addition, Pittsburg State University prints a weekly student newspaper, the Collegio. Pittsburg is a center of broadcast media for southeastern Kansas.
Two AM and five FM airways broadcasts are licensed to and/or broadcast from the city, and it is the second principal town/city of the Joplin-Pittsburg tv market. The market's CBS and Fox network affiliates both broadcast from the town/city along with an autonomous station. In late 2012, NBC news anchor Brian Williams, who started his longterm position in Pittsburg, Kansas as a journalist at KOAM-TV, veiled the small-town story of a fried chicken war between Chicken Annie's and Chicken Mary's on the Travel Channel. Bus System, Pittsburg Area Community Transportation (P.A.C.T) Main article: List of citizens from Pittsburg, Kansas See also: List of Pittsburg State University citizens Notable individuals who were born in and/or have lived in Pittsburg include actor Roy Glenn, chemical entrepreneur Kenneth A.
Pittsburg - Directory of Public Officials a b Pittsburg - Government a b "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"2010 City Population and Housing Occupancy Status".
Engraved memorial marker dedicated to lives lost in Cow Creek Skirmish; The Morning Sun; November 1, 2011.
A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of Crawford County, Kansas.
Kansas State Historical Society (1916).
Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society.
Kansas State Printing Plant.
Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2.
History of Pittsburg, Official Homepage of the town/city "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961, page 2 (archived)".
Former Mining Communities of the Cherokee-Crawford Coal Field of Southeastern Kansas Kansas Historical Quarterly Summer 1972 "Monthly Averages for Pittsburg, Kansas".
"Record Details - Pittsburg Morning Sun".
"Radio Stations in Pittsburg, Kansas".
Pittsburg State University.
History of the State of Kansas; William G.
Kansas : A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc; 3 Volumes; Frank W.
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