FOUNDED:
Incorporated April 13, 1925.

ORIGIN OF BOROUGH:
The town was originally founded with the name Hoboken in the late 1700s. Postal regulations later required a name change because Hoboken, New Jersey had a prior claim to the name.

The Blaw Steel Co. acquired the Knox Welded and Pressed Steel Co. in 1917. The company became known as the Blaw-Knox Steel Construction Co. The size of the borough was expanded to cover the whole area spanned by the Blaw-Knox mill. The management asked the people of the town to change the name to Blawnox, and they did, becoming the present-day Blawnox.

STATISTICS & FACTS:

• The population of Blawnox is approximately 1,626.
• The approximate number of families is 913.

• The amount of land area in Blawnox is 0.845 sq. kilometers.
• The amount of surface water is 0.28 sq kilometers.
• The distance from Blawnox to Washington DC is 190 miles.

• The distance to the Pennsylvania state capital is 158 miles.
• Blawnox is positioned 40.49 degrees north of the equator and
   79.86 degrees west of the prime meridian.

• Blawnox location: in O'Hara Township