Westmont, Pennsylvania
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Tioga Street homes, built in 1901
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 Location of Westmont in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. |
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| Coordinates: 40°19′7″N 78°56′56″W / 40.31861°N 78.94889°WCoordinates: 40°19′7″N 78°56′56″W / 40.31861°N 78.94889°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Cambria |
| Settled | 1788 |
| Incorporated | 1892 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Dr. Robert J. Callahan |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.35 sq mi (6.08 km2) |
| • Land | 2.35 sq mi (6.08 km2) |
| • Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,750 ft (530 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 5,181 |
| • Estimate (2016) | 4,876 |
| • Density | 2,076.66/sq mi (801.94/km2) |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| FIPS code | 42-83584 |
| Website | webpages |
Westmont is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,181 at the 2010 census, down from 5,523 at the 2000 census.
Westmont is located in southwestern Cambria County and is bordered to the east by the city of Johnstown, to the north by the borough of Brownstown, and to the south by the borough of Southmont and the unincorporated community of Elim. Westmont sits on heights rising up to 700 feet (210 m) above the Stonycreek and Conemaugh River valleys in the center of Johnstown.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough of Westmont has a total area of 2.4 square miles (6.1 km2), all of it land.
Before the Johnstown Flood of 1889, the Yoder Hill area consisted of nothing more than a few farms, accessible by only a few steep, muddy roads. However, since the flood was so devastating to the city and to its major employer, the Cambria Iron Company, the iron company decided to develop the top of the hill as a suburb for its top personnel to live in. The company commissioned the famous landscape architect, Charles Miller, to lay out the grid for the settlement of "Tiptop", later renamed Westmont. Westmont was located on a ridge high above the valley in which Johnstown is located, and thus in a place of safety. As such, it was also above the smoke, noise, and stench of the city, and attracted the well-to-do of the town, eager to escape what (in many cases) their own factories had wrought. An inclined railway, the Johnstown Inclined Plane, was built for easy travel to the city. With the problem of transportation solved, the new settlement began to grow, and it was incorporated as the Borough of Westmont on June 13, 1892. In 1935, the borough bought the inclined railway from Bethlehem Steel.
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