Editing Calumet-Norvelt, Pennsylvania

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| name                    = Calumet-Norvelt
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| image_caption           = Norvelt Post Office and Norvelt Union Church<br />Mount Pleasant Road
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| etymology               = Calumet Coke Company (Calumet) and [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] (Norvelt)
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| subdivision_type        = Country
| subdivision_name        = United States
| subdivision_type1       = State
| subdivision_name1       = Pennsylvania
| subdivision_type2       = County
| subdivision_name2       = [[Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania|Westmoreland]]
| subdivision_type3       = Township
| subdivision_name3       = [[Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania|Mount Pleasant]]
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| established_title       = Founded
| established_date        = 1888 ([[Calumet, Pennsylvania|Calumet]]) and 1934 ([[Norvelt]])
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| elevation_ft            = 1000
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| population_total        = 1682
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| postal_code             = 15621 (Calumet) and 15674 (Norvelt)
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| area_code               = [[Area code 724|724]]
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'''Calumet-Norvelt''' was a [[census-designated place]] (CDP) in [[Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania]], United States. The community was divided into the two separate communities of [[Calumet, Pennsylvania|Calumet]] and [[Norvelt, Pennsylvania|Norvelt]] for the 2010 census. Although the US Census treats Calumet and Norvelt as a single community, they are in reality two very different communities, each reflecting a different chapter in how the [[Great Depression]] affected rural Pennsylvanians. Calumet was a typical "patch town", built by a single company to house its miners as cheaply as possible. The closing of the Calumet mine during the Great Depression caused enormous hardship in an era when [[unemployment benefits|unemployment compensation]] and welfare payments were non-existent. On the other hand, Norvelt was created during the depression by the US federal government as a model community, intended to increase the standard of living of laid-off coal miners.

==Geography==
Calumet-Norvelt is an unincorporated community within [[Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania|Mount Pleasant Township]]. Calumet-Norvelt is located at {{coord|40|12|49|N|79|29|35|W|type:city}} (40.213730, -79.493121).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the CDP has a total area of {{convert|1.5|sqmi|km2}}, all of it land.

==History of Calumet==
{{main|Calumet, Pennsylvania}}
Calumet was founded by the Calumet Coke Company in 1888 as a housing site for its workers.<ref name="calumet-oldminer">{{cite web |url=http://patheoldminer.rootsweb.ancestry.com/calumet.html |title=Calumet Mine & Coke Works |accessdate=2008-04-30 |last=Washlaski |first=Raymond A. |author2=Ryan P. Washlaski |author3=Peter E. Starry, Jr. |date=2006-02-25 |work=Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090712035230/http://patheoldminer.rootsweb.ancestry.com/calumet.html |archive-date=2009-07-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The community, as originally laid out, consisted of twenty double-houses, twelve single-family houses, and a few commercial and industrial buildings. The workers were employed in a coal mine and also tended ovens that produced [[coke (fuel)]]. In 1894, Calumet was the site of a bitter coal miners’ strike against the H. C. Frick Coke Company, which at that time was part-owner of Calumet Coke Company.<ref name="calumet-oldminer"/>

The coke works closed in the 1920s, and the mine closed in the early 1930s during the [[Great Depression]], causing enormous hardship for the community's workers.<ref name="calumet-oldminer"/>

==History of Norvelt==
{{main|Norvelt, Pennsylvania}}
Norvelt, originally named '''Westmoreland Homesteads''', was created April 13, 1934, as one of a series of “subsistence homesteads” under the [[National Industrial Recovery Act]].<ref name="norvelt-pahistory">{{cite web|url=http://www.explorepahistory.com/ |title=Norvelt |accessdate=2008-04-30 |work=ExplorePAhistory.com |publisher=WITF, Inc. ([[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]]) and [[Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission]]}}</ref>  These communities were intended to allow rural inhabitants to have an improved quality of living, while largely growing their own food. It was hoped that these new communities would raise the standard of living for unemployed coal miners from nearby Calumet and similar "patch towns" in the area. Accordingly, each lot was a minimum of {{convert|1.7|acre|m2}}, and other land was set aside as a cooperative farm. The community's layout and home designs were created by [[Paul Bartholomew]], an architect who had also designed many notable buildings in Greensburg.<ref name="norvelt-pahistory"/>

In 1937, the community's name was changed to Norvelt (EleaNOR RooseVELT), following a visit by [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], wife of President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].<ref name="norvelt-pahistory"/>

==Demographics==
At the 2000 [[census]],<ref name="GR2">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |accessdate=2008-01-31 |title=U.S. Census website |df= }}</ref> there were 1,682 people, 682 households and 504 families residing in the CDP. The [[population density]] was {{convert|1,156.4|/sqmi}}. There were 709 housing units at an average density of {{convert|487.5|/sqmi}}. The racial make-up of the CDP was 99.41% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.36% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.18% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]] and 0.06% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 0.48% of the population.

There were 682 households, of which 27.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.4% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 7.8% had a female householder with no husband present and 26.0% were non-families. 24.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 2.92.

21.3% of the population were under the age of 18, 5.8% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 26.0% from 45 to 64 and 20.5% were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.4 males.

The [[median household income]] was $38,000 and the median family income was $47,292. Males had a median income of $29,966 and females $22,027. The [[per capita income]] as $17,043. About 4.2% of families and 4.9% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 5.9% of those under age 18 and 5.6% of those age 65 or over.

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