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Pittsburg

Pittsburg proper noun: former spelling of Pittsburgh.

Proper noun

Pittsburg

  1. (historical) former spelling of Pittsburgh
    • I never see a shivering, white-faced wretch in the prisoners’ dock that I do not hark back with shuddering horror to the strange events on the Pullman car Ontario, between Washington and Pittsburg, on the night of September ninth, last.1909, Mary Roberts Rinehart, “I Go to Pittsburg”, in The Man in Lower Ten, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 1
  2. An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Alabama.
  3. An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Arkansas.
  4. A city in Contra Costa County, California.
  5. A ghost town in Gunnison County, Colorado.
  6. A town in Polk County, Florida.
  7. An unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Georgia.
  8. An unincorporated community in Walker County, Georgia.
  9. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Illinois.
  10. A village in Williamson County, Illinois.
  11. An unincorporated community in Tippecanoe Township, Carroll County, Indiana.
  12. An unincorporated community in Van Buren County, Iowa.
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  1. A city in Crawford County, Kansas.
  2. A township in Mitchell County, Kansas.
  3. An unincorporated community and coal town in Laurel County, Kentucky.
  4. An unincorporated community in Bennington Township, Shiawassee County, Michigan.
  5. An unincorporated community in Tishomingo County, Mississippi.
  6. An unincorporated community in Hickory County, Missouri.
  7. A ghost town in Seward County, Nebraska.
  8. A town in Coos County, New Hampshire.
  9. A ghost town in Lander County, Nevada.
  10. An unincorporated community in Scotch Irish Township, Rowan County, North Carolina.
  11. A village in Monroe Township, Darke County, Ohio.
  12. A town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.
  13. An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Oregon.
  14. An unincorporated community in Greenwood County, South Carolina.
  15. A city, the county seat of Camp County, Texas.

Words formed from Pittsburg

Questions about Pittsburg

What does Pittsburg mean?
Pittsburg means former spelling of Pittsburgh.
What part of speech is Pittsburg?
Pittsburg is a proper noun.

Words near Pittsburg in the dictionary

  1. pittospores
  2. pittosporum
  3. pittosporums
  4. Pitts
  5. Pittsboro
  6. Pittsburg
  7. Pittsburg County
  8. Pittsburgh
  9. Pittsburgh compound B
  10. Pittsburgh left
  11. Pittsburgh lefts

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