MyPittsburg
Welcome to Pittsburg, Kansas
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Pittsburg, one of the important cities of
southeastern Kansas, is located in Crawford County, 11 miles southeast of
Girard, the judicial seat. It is 3 miles from the Missouri line and 134 miles
from Kansas City, at the junction of four railway systems—the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe, the Missouri Pacific, the Kansas City Southern and the St. Louis
& San Francisco.
MyPittsburg - Town History
Pittsburg--Crawford County:Pittsburg was named for the mining region in Pennsylvania with the
same name, and was platted by Franklin Playter on May 20, 1876. The
only problem was that there was already a town named Pittsburg in
Mitchell County, KS. The new city was named New Pittsburg, until 1880
when an agreement was made with W. A. Pitts, the founder of the
Mitchell County Pittsburg to use the name. His was changed to Tipton.
