Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania | |
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Unincorporated community | |
Coordinates: 40°07′45″N 79°44′30″W / 40.12917°N 79.74167°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Pennsylvania |
County | Westmoreland |
Elevation | 787 ft (240 m) |
Time zone | UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP code | 15448 |
Area code(s) | 724, 878 |
GNIS feature ID | 1177958 [1] |
Jacobs Creek is an unincorporated community in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] The community is located at the mouth of Jacobs Creek on the Youghiogheny River, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Smithton. Jacobs Creek has a post office with ZIP code 15448, which opened on December 14, 1865. [2] [3]
The community was named after Jacobs Creek, a tributary of the Youghiogheny River, which in turn was named after Captain Jacobs, a local Lenape chief who lived along the creek in the mid 1700s, [4] and was killed in 1756 by Colonel John Armstrong's Expedition which wiped out the Native American village of Kittanning. [5] [6]
The area was opened to settlers in 1768 following the signing of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix. [7]
One of the first buildings in the Jacobs Creek settlement was the old log Jacobs Creek Methodist Episcopal Church, built in 1817. [8] [9]
In December 1907, an explosion at the Darr Mine killed 239 men and boys from Jacobs Creek and the nearby settlement of Van Meter. [10] [11]
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Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania | |
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Unincorporated community | |
Coordinates: 40°07′45″N 79°44′30″W / 40.12917°N 79.74167°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Pennsylvania |
County | Westmoreland |
Elevation | 787 ft (240 m) |
Time zone | UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP code | 15448 |
Area code(s) | 724, 878 |
GNIS feature ID | 1177958 [1] |
Jacobs Creek is an unincorporated community in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] The community is located at the mouth of Jacobs Creek on the Youghiogheny River, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Smithton. Jacobs Creek has a post office with ZIP code 15448, which opened on December 14, 1865. [2] [3]
The community was named after Jacobs Creek, a tributary of the Youghiogheny River, which in turn was named after Captain Jacobs, a local Lenape chief who lived along the creek in the mid 1700s, [4] and was killed in 1756 by Colonel John Armstrong's Expedition which wiped out the Native American village of Kittanning. [5] [6]
The area was opened to settlers in 1768 following the signing of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix. [7]
One of the first buildings in the Jacobs Creek settlement was the old log Jacobs Creek Methodist Episcopal Church, built in 1817. [8] [9]
In December 1907, an explosion at the Darr Mine killed 239 men and boys from Jacobs Creek and the nearby settlement of Van Meter. [10] [11]
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