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Welcome to Pittsburg ...So far, we found very little information about Pittsburg. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Pittsburg to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Pittsburg - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Pittsburg, please Contact Us. While we don't have the exact location of Pittsburg , we believe that it would have been located within present day Colfax County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Pittsburg, you might consider that their post office opened in 1924. When the people of Pittsburg referred to themselves (known as a demonym), they are believed to have used Pittsburger<3> Time Zone: The area where Pittsburg was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time If Pittsburg still existed, it would have been in the (575) area code. Communities Also Named Pittsburg ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two New Mexico communities named Pittsburg: This one is located in Colfax County and the other is located in Sierra County. Beyond New Mexico, there are 29 communities that are also named Pittsburg - they are located in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida (2), Georgia, Illinois (3), Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (4), Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Washington. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Pittsburg. Adding Pittsburg to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Pittsburg in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Pittsburg was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4> For more details, see References and Mentions for Pittsburg. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of New Mexico: www.newmexico.gov/ Footnotes ...
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