Map of Seward borough, Pennsylvania

Seward is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was four hundred and ninety-five at the time of the 2010 census.

It is also one of three communities within the county to utilize the 814 area code, along with St. Clair and New Florence.

Seward borough overview:
Name:	Seward borough
LSAD Code:	21
LSAD Description:	borough (suffix)
State:	Pennsylvania
County:	Westmoreland County
Incorporated:	January 23, 1904
Elevation:	1,135 ft (346 m)
Total Area:	0.20 sq mi (0.52 km²)
Land Area:	0.20 sq mi (0.52 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	495
Population Density:	2,287.13/sq mi (882.78/km²)
Area code:	724, 814
FIPS code:	4269368

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History

In June 1902, three men were killed instantly, two were fatally hurt and five others were injured, including one man who later died, following an explosion at the Cambria powder plant’s coining mill in Seward. According to news coverage, “The explosion occurred as the men were loading a pot of powder on a wagon driven by” one of the victims, thirty-eight-year-old John Rhoads, who reportedly left a large family. The others who were killed were: Seward resident J. B. Smith, aged forty, who was also the head of a large family; Charles Drover, a thirty-five-year-old, unmarried resident of Wapwallopen in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; and Seward resident W. F. Bracken, who was married with three children.

A second, similar explosion then occurred in Seward at the Conemaugh Powder Works on December 7, 1903, killing worker Alfred Beatty and seriously injuring four other men.

On January 4, 1908, Seward resident Patrick Kerwin, who was reportedly the oldest person alive in Pennsylvania at that time, died at the age of one hundred and eleven. A native of Ireland, he had been born on St. Patrick’s Day in 1796.