Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania

Oliphant Furnace
Unincorporated community
Oliphant Furnace Location within the state of Pennsylvania
Coordinates: 39°50′32″N 79°43′33″W / 39.84222°N 79.72583°W / 39.84222; -79.72583Coordinates: 39°50′32″N 79°43′33″W / 39.84222°N 79.72583°W / 39.84222; -79.72583
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Fayette
Elevation	1,201 ft (366 m)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
GNIS feature ID	1182970^[1]

Oliphant Furnace is an unincorporated community and coal town in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The town began as a mining community which grew up around the cokeworks which bore the name "Oliphant Furnace" in the 1870s. Other towns with "Furnace" in the name can be found in the region.

Several original saltbox houses which were built by the mining companies can still be found in town, as well as the ruins of the cokeworks just outside town.

References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania

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Municipalities and communities of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States

County seat: Uniontown

Cities	Connellsville Uniontown

Boroughs	Belle Vernon Brownsville Dawson Dunbar Everson Fairchance Fayette City Markleysburg Masontown Newell Ohiopyle Perryopolis Point Marion Seven Springs‡ Smithfield South Connellsville Vanderbilt

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CDPs	Allison Arnold City Bear Rocks Buffington Chalkhill Deer Lake East Uniontown Edenborn Fairhope Farmington Grindstone Hiller Hopwood Leith-Hatfield Lemont Furnace Lynnwood-Pricedale‡ Naomi New Salem Oliver Republic Ronco Rowes Run Smock South Uniontown Star Junction

Unincorporated communities	Acme Adah Collier Gans Isabella Lake Lynn Lowber McClellandtown Moyer Oliphant Furnace Sagamore Whitsett Wickhaven

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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