Tarentum, Pennsylvania Official name: Borough of Tarentum State Pennsylvania Allegheny County Pennsylvania incorporated and unincorporated areas Tarentum highlighted.svg Location in Allegheny County and the state of Pennsylvania Location of Pennsylvania in the United States Tarentum is a borough in Allegheny County in the U.S.
State of Pennsylvania.
It is 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Downtown Pittsburgh, along the Allegheny River.
The Pennsylvania Railroad directed a station in Tarentum; its rail line ran through the town. The populace was 4,530 at the 2010 census. Two statues of Hebe, the Greek goddess of youth, are displayed by the borough in Tarentum.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2), of which 1.2 square miles (3.1 km2) is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2), or 12.06%, is water.
The Allegheny River forms the borough's easterly border with Westmoreland County.
Little Bull Creek joins Bull Creek via a culvert underneath Bull Creek Road (Pennsylvania Route 366) at Tarentum. Tarentum is bordered by East Deer Township to the west, Frazer Township to the northwest, Fawn Township to the north, Harrison Township to the northeast, and Brackenridge to the east.
To the south, athwart the Allegheny River in Westmoreland County, are New Kensington (via Tarentum Bridge) and Lower Burrell.
There were 2,170 homeholds, out of which 26.6% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 41.0% were married couples living together, 14.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 39.8% were non-families.
In the borough the populace was spread out, with 22.0% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 31.5% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 15.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 12.1% of families and 15.6% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 24.1% of those under age 18 and 7.3% of those age 65 or over.
In 1900, 5,472 citizens lived here; in 1910, 7,414 citizens lived here; and in 1940, 9,846 citizens lived in Tarentum.
The Community Library of Allegheny Valley, Tarentum Branch, serves the borough and county-wide municipalities. Pittsburgh Mills in close-by Frazer Township uses a Tarentum postal code; it is the 22nd-largest shopping mall in the United States.
Tarentum is inside the Highlands School District, which operates Grandview Upper Elementary School (grades 3 5) in the borough; also Fawn and Fairmount major centers (grades K 2), Highlands Middle School (grades 6 8), and Highlands High School (grades 9 12) in close-by communities.
John Filo, photographer, took award-winning Kent State photo while working in Tarentum Estelle Harris, actress who played George Costanza's mother on Seinfeld, lived in Tarentum and graduated from the former Tarentum High School "Allegheny County - 2nd Class" (PDF).
The Pennsylvania Railroad: Its Origin, Construction, Condition, and Connections; Embracing Historical, Descriptive, and Statistical Notices of Cities, Towns, Villages, Stations, Industries, and Objects of Interest on Its Various Lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
"Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Tarentum borough, Pennsylvania".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Population of Civil Divisions Less than Counties" (PDF).
1880 United States Census.
"Number of Inhabitants: Pennsylvania" (PDF).
18th Enumeration of the United States.
"Pennsylvania: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
"Community Library of Allegheny Valley".
Hale Sipe, The Indian wars of Pennsylvania : an account of the Indian affairs, in Pennsylvania, of the French and Indian war, Pontiac's war, Lord Dunmore's war, the revolutionary war, and the Indian uprising from 1789 to 1795; tragedies of the Pennsylvania frontier based primarily on the Penna.
Borough of Tarentum official website Media related to Tarentum, Pennsylvania at Wikimedia Commons Municipalities and communities of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
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