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Dorseyville, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
Nickname(s): Crowtown
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Allegheny
Township	Indiana
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)

Dorseyville is an unincorporated suburb of Pittsburgh located in Indiana Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

History

Dorseyville was originally called "Crowtown" by farmers, but later named for the Dorsey family that lived on modern day Cedar Run Road. The Dorseyville fire hall, which held the Dorseyville Corn Carnival until the 2000s, was demolished and rebuilt in 2009 at a cost of $699,560.

Municipalities and communities of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States

County seat: Pittsburgh

Cities	Clairton Duquesne McKeesport Pittsburgh (neighborhoods)

Boroughs	Aspinwall Avalon Baldwin Bell Acres Bellevue Ben Avon Ben Avon Heights Bethel Park Blawnox Brackenridge Bradford Woods Braddock Braddock Hills Brentwood Bridgeville Carnegie Castle Shannon Chalfant Cheswick Churchill Coraopolis Crafton Dormont Dravosburg East McKeesport East Pittsburgh Edgewood Edgeworth Elizabeth Emsworth Etna Forest Hills Fox Chapel Franklin Park Glassport Glen Osborne Glenfield Green Tree Haysville Heidelberg Homestead Ingram Jefferson Hills Leetsdale Liberty Lincoln McDonald‡ McKees Rocks Millvale Monroeville Mount Oliver Munhall North Braddock Oakdale Oakmont Pennsbury Village Pitcairn Pleasant Hills Plum Port Vue Rankin Rosslyn Farms Sewickley Sewickley Heights Sewickley Hills Sharpsburg Springdale Swissvale Tarentum Thornburg Trafford‡ Turtle Creek Verona Versailles Wall West Elizabeth West Homestead West Mifflin West View Whitaker Whitehall White Oak Wilkinsburg Wilmerding

Townships	Aleppo Baldwin Collier Crescent East Deer Elizabeth Fawn Findlay Forward Frazer Hampton Harmar Harrison Indiana Kennedy Kilbuck Leet Marshall McCandless Moon Mt. Lebanon Neville North Fayette North Versailles O'Hara Ohio Penn Hills Pine Reserve Richland Robinson Ross Scott Shaler South Fayette South Park South Versailles Springdale Stowe Upper St. Clair West Deer Wilkins

CDPs	Allison Park Bairdford Bakerstown Carnot-Moon Clinton Curtisville Enlow Gibsonia Glenshaw Harwick Imperial Noblestown Rennerdale Russellton Sturgeon

Unincorporated communities	Acmetonia Blackridge Blanchard Boyce Broughton Bruceton Buena Vista Creighton Cuddy Curry Dorseyville Elfinwild Evergreen Harmarville Herriottsville Hickory Heights Horning Indianola Karns Keown Station Moon Run Mount Nebo Mount Vernon Murdocksville Natrona Natrona Heights Rural Ridge Smithdale Warrendale Wexford Wildwood

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Pittsburgh metropolitan area

Counties	Allegheny Armstrong Beaver Brooke Butler Fayette Hancock Indiana Jefferson Lawrence Washington Westmoreland	Map of the Pittsburgh Tri-State with green counties in the metropolitan area and yellow counties in the combined area.

Major cities	Pittsburgh

Cities and towns 15k-50k (in 2010)	Baldwin Bethel Park Butler Cranberry Hampton Hempfield McCandless McKeesport Monroeville Moon Mt. Lebanon Murrysville New Castle North Huntingdon Penn Penn Hills Peters Plum Ross Scott Shaler Steubenville Upper St. Clair Unity Weirton West Mifflin White Wilkinsburg

Airports	Template:Pittsburgh metropolitan area airports

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Coordinates: 40°34′37″N 79°53′19″W / 40.57694°N 79.88861°W / 40.57694; -79.88861

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