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Originally Posted by glowrock
Yeah, Greensburg, like several just outside of Pittsburgh cities, is really quite substantial for being a fairly small place. Same thing applies to Washington, which is about 25 miles south-southwest of Pittsburgh along I-79. That's going to be my next photo tour!
Aaron (Glowrock)
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Of course... that's partly due to the municipal hyper-fragmentation of Pennsylvania (and especially SWPA). In most other states... cities like Greensburg and Washington would have much more area and would probably be cities of 40k instead of 15k (municipalities like South Greensburg and
Southwest(!) Greensburg are utterly pointless).
Interestingly, the township surrounding Greensburg... Hempfield Township... is now the 2nd most populous municipality in the Pittsburgh MSA at 43,241 (yes... in a metro of 2.4M the second largest municipality is only 43k!)... so it's technically Pittsburgh's "largest suburb". The population of Greensburg, Hempfield and all the other micro-municipalities surrounded by Hempfield adds up to about 80k.