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Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania

Borough in Pennsylvania, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Wilkinsburg is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The borough has a population of 14,349 as of the 2020 census. Wilkinsburg is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The borough was named for John Wilkins Jr., a United States Army officer who served as Quartermaster General of the United States Army from 1796 to 1802.

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“Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania” enters the record as borough in Pennsylvania, US. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania and Borough can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 1796, 1802—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania and Borough.
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This entry incorporates text from “Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.