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New Castle
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city in and the county seat of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Lawrence
- Incorporated
- 1825 (borough), 1869 (city)
- Type
- Home Rule Charter
- Mayor
- Mark Elisco
- Total
- 8.54 sq mi (22.13 km )
- Land
- 8.31 sq mi (21.52 km )
- Water
- 0.24 sq mi (0.62 km ) 2.81%
- Highest elevation
- 1,204 ft (367 m)
- Lowest elevation
- 758 ft (231 m)
- Density
- 2,639.4/sq mi (1,019.09/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Zip code
- 6 total ZIP codes: 16101, 16102, 16103, 16105, 16107, 16108
- Area codes
- 724 , 878
- Fips code
- 42-53368
- Website
- www .newcastlepa .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- New Castle
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Lawrence County
- Population
- 21926
- Area
- 22.104877
- Elevation
- 846
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Body of water
- Mahoning River
- Capital of
- Lawrence County
- Official website
- www.newcastlepa.org
- Image
- Kennedy Square.jpg
- Households
- 9428
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- Commons category
- New Castle, Pennsylvania
- topic's main category
- Category:New Castle, Pennsylvania
- category of associated people
- Category:People from New Castle, Pennsylvania
- inception
- 1802-01-01
- different from
- New Castle Township
- P8168
- Zygmunt Solorz-Żak
- water area
- 0.588946
- water as percent of area
- 2.6643
- per capita income
- 19741
- postal code
- 16108
Sources (11)
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Encyclopedic overview
New Castle is a city in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. Located along the Shenango River at the mouth of Neshannock Creek, it is 43 miles (69 km) northwest of Pittsburgh near the Pennsylvania–Ohio border, approximately 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Youngstown, Ohio. The city had a population of 21,926 as of the 2020 census. The commercial center of a fertile agricultural region, New Castle is included in the northwestern fringes of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “New Castle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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