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Welcome to Mahoning Furnace ...

Mahoning Furnace is located in Armstrong County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Mahoning Furnace, you might consider that their post office opened in 1877.

Mahoning Furnace is 880 feet [268 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Mahoning Furnace lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities near Mahoning Furnace ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Mahoning Furnace.

  • Clarion
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Kittanning
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Ford City
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • West Kittanning
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • West Kittanning is located in Armstrong County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Kittanning
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,078 people
  • Chicora
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • New Bethlehem
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • East Brady
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Rimersburg
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Rural Valley
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Parker
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Mahoning Furnace. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Mahoning Furnace.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Mahoning Furnace. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Mahoning Furnace.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Mahoning Furnace. See our Newspapers Page for Mahoning Furnace.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Mahoning Furnace ...

Looking for more information about Mahoning Furnace? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Mahoning Furnace, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Mahoning Furnace.

Adding Mahoning Furnace to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Mahoning Furnace 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 (so far) for Mahoning Furnace was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Mahoning Furnace post office opened in 1877. The Mahoning Furnace post office closed in 1886.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Mahoning Furnace.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties, including Armstrong, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Mahoning Furnace - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/