Somerset
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borough in Pennsylvania, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Somerset
- Incorporated
- March 5, 1804
- Type
- Borough Council
- Total
- 2.73 sq mi (7.07 km )
- Land
- 2.73 sq mi (7.07 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 2,190 ft (670 m)
- Estimate 2021
- 5,992
- Density
- 2,145.9/sq mi (828.52/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 42-71776
- Website
- http://www.somersetborough.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- borough of Pennsylvania
- Official name
- Somerset
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Somerset County
- Population
- 6048
- Area
- 7.066878
- Elevation
- 2190
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Capital of
- Somerset County
- Shares border with
- Shanksville
- Official website
- www.somersetborough.com
- Image
- Somerset County Courthouse Pa 2012.jpg
- Households
- 2684
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- Commons category
- Somerset, Pennsylvania
- postal code
- 15510
- inception
- 1795-00-00
- water area
- 0
- water as percent of area
- 0
- per capita income
- 28628
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Encyclopedic overview
Somerset (/ˈsʌmərsɛt/ SUM-ər-set) is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. The population was 6,046 at the 2020 census. The borough is surrounded by Somerset Township and is located off the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-70 and I-76). Somerset is the principal city of the Somerset micropolitan statistical area, which consists of Somerset County, and is also a principal city of the larger Johnstown-Somerset combined statistical area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Somerset” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.