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Beaver Falls Information
Beaver Falls is a city in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is
located 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Pittsburgh, and on the Beaver River, six
miles (9 km) from its confluence with the Ohio River. A variety of manufacturing
plants had kept the residents busy in the twentieth century, however, the city
has suffered a fair amount of economic malaise lately due to the decline in the
steel-making capacity in the Pittsburgh region where Beaver Falls is situated.
Originally called Brighton, Beaver Falls was chartered as a borough in 1868. It
adopted the commission form of government in 1913. Population counts were as
follows: in 1890, 9,735; in 1900, 10,054; in 1910, 12,191; in 1920, 12,802; and
in 1940, 17,098. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 9,920, with the
drop in its population being attributable to its being centrally located within
the Rust Belt. On May 31, 1985, an F3 tornado hit just north of the city as it
went across northern portions of Beaver County, as part of the eastern Ohio and
Western Pennsylvania tornado outbreak.
The city is perhaps best known in fiction as the setting of the television
situation comedy Mr. Belvedere. It is also the birthplace of athlete Joe Namath
and model Joanie Dodds. Ernest P. Kline, Pennsylvania's Lieutenant Governor from
1971 to 1979, resided in the city and represented it in the Pennsylvania General
Assembly from 1965 to 1971. The plates for United States paper currency are
manufactured here. Geneva College is located in the College Hill neighborhood on
the north side of the city.