West Brownsville, Pennsylvania

West Brownsville
Borough
West Brownsville Junction Bridge, spanning the Monongahela River
Location of West Brownsville in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
West Brownsville Location of West Brownsville in Pennsylvania
Coordinates: 40°1′47″N 79°53′11″W / 40.02972°N 79.88639°W / 40.02972; -79.88639
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Washington
Established	1831
Government
• Mayor	W Dean Lacey
• Borough Council[1]	Members Jim Pflugh Von Braddock Richard Black Brianne Bayer-Mitchell Dan Krilosky Debby King I. Patrick Toth
Area [2]
• Total	1.42 sq mi (3.68 km2)
• Land	1.30 sq mi (3.36 km2)
• Water	0.12 sq mi (0.32 km2)
Population  (2020)[3]
• Total	977
• Density	752.12/sq mi (290.42/km2)
Time zone	UTC-4 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (EDT)
ZIP code	15417[4]
Greater Pittsburgh	724

West Brownsville is a former important transportation nexus and a present-day borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States and part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population was 972 at the 2020 census.^[5] Culturally, by postal route, and socially, the community is connected to cross-river sister-city Brownsville, for the two were long joined by the Amerindian trail known as Nemacolin's Path that became a wagon road after the American Revolution, but West Brownsville is a separate municipality. Brownsville was the first point where the descent from the Appalachians could safely reach the river down the generally steep banks of the Monongahela River. Between Brownsville and West Brownsville was a shallow stretch, usable as a river ford astride a major Emigrant Trail to the various attractive regions in the Northwest Territory, the first National Road, the Cumberland Pike (Now U.S. Route 40^[a]).

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