Map of Girard borough, Pennsylvania

Girard is a borough in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,994 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Erie Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Girard borough overview:
Name:	Girard borough
LSAD Code:	21
LSAD Description:	borough (suffix)
State:	Pennsylvania
County:	Erie County
Total Area:	2.36 sq mi (6.12 km²)
Land Area:	2.34 sq mi (6.07 km²)
Water Area:	0.02 sq mi (0.05 km²)
Total Population:	2,993
Population Density:	1,276.88/sq mi (493.11/km²)
ZIP code:	16417
Area code:	814
FIPS code:	4229232
Website:	girardboroughpa.us

Online Interactive Map

Girard online map. Source: Basemap layers from Google Map, Open Street Map (OSM), Arcgisonline, Wmflabs. Boundary Data from Database of Global Administrative Areas.

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History

Girard’s history began with a petition to “Township Status” in 1832 by reassigning lands previously allocated to neighboring municipalities (Springfield, Fairview, and Elk Creek). The name is in honor of Stephen Girard, a banking tycoon of the late 1700s and early 1800s. Stephen Girard, a resident of Philadelphia at that time, was chosen for a variety of reasons. He owned much of the neighboring Springfield Township, and had been admired by the residents in the region. Additionally, Girard officials had been lobbying with Stephen Girard’s foundation, upon his death in 1831, to be the site of the bequeathed Girard College. Despite this attempt, his family and will executors chose to establish the boarding school in Philadelphia where Stephen Girard had a long-standing tradition as a local philanthropist.

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Geography

Girard is located in western Erie County at 42°0′21″N 80°19′17″W / 42.00583°N 80.32139°W / 42.00583; -80.32139 (42.005954, -80.321481). It is bordered to the northwest by the borough of Lake City and on all other sides by Girard Township.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 2.4 square miles (6.1 km), of which 0.02 square miles (0.05 km), or 0.81%, is water. Elk Creek roughly follows the southwest border of the borough as it flows northwest to Lake Erie.

U.S. Route 20 passes through the borough as Main Street, leading northeast 4 miles (6 km) to Fairview and 15 miles (24 km) to Erie, and southwest 13 miles (21 km) to Conneaut, Ohio.