Warren, Pennsylvania, United States

🇺🇸 Warren is a city in Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States, located along the Allegheny River. It is the county seat of Warren County. It is home to the headquarters of the Allegheny National Forest and the Cornplanter State Forest. It is also the headquarters for the Chief Cornplanter Council, the oldest continuously chartered Boy Scouts of America Council, and the catalog company Blair. Warren is the principal city of the Warren, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area.

History Warren was initially inhabited by Native Americans of the Seneca nation. French explorers had longstanding claims to the area which they acted to secure in an unambiguous fashion with a military-Amerindian expedition in 1749 that buried a succession of plaques claiming the territory as France's in response to the formation of the colonial Ohio Company—and the first of these was buried in Warren but ultimately control was transferred to the British after the French and Indian War. After the Revolutionary War, General William Irvine and Andrew Ellicott were sent to the area to lay out a town in 1795. It was named after Major General Joseph Warren.

The first permanent structure in Warren, a storehouse built by the Holland Land Company, was completed in 1796. Daniel McQuay of Ireland was the first permanent inhabitant of European descent. Lumber was the main industry from 1810–1840, as the abundance of wood and access to water made it profitable to float lumber down the Allegheny River to Pittsburgh.

David Beaty discovered oil in Warren in 1875 while drilling for natural gas in his wife's flower garden. Oil came to dominate the city's economy. Many of the town's large Victorian homes were built with revenue generated by the local oil and timber industries.

Pittsburgh Des Moines, which was formerly located in Warren, was the manufacturer of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. Pittsburgh-Des Moines (PDM) also made railroad car tanks, storage tanks and other plate work. Several miniature replicas are located within the county as well, one being at the new visitors centre on Routes US 6 and US 62 next to the Pennsylvania State Police barracks.

In recent years, Warren has struggled through hard economic times and a steady decline in population (after peaking at nearly 15,000 residents in 1940), but the city is attempting to bounce back with the Impact Warren project, a riverfront development project in downtown Warren. The completed project will include new townhouses and senior citizen housing, retail and commercial development, a parking garage, convention centre and bus depot.

Major employers include Walmart, the United Refining Company (gas supplier for Kwik Fill and Red Apple Food Mart gas stations), Allegheny National Forest, Northwest Bank, Whirley-Drinkworks, Superior Tire and Rubber Corp, Pennsylvania General Energy, Betts Industries, Inc, Blair Corporation, Sheetz, and Interlectric.

The Warren Historic District, A.J. Hazeltine House, John P. Jefferson House, Struthers Library Building, Warren Armory, Warren County Courthouse, Wetmore House, Guy Irvine House ("The Locusts") and Woman's Club of Warren are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Geography Warren is located at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Conewango Creek. The Conewango Creek flows between New York State and Warren, and the Allegheny Reservoir and Kinzua Dam are nearby.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.1 square miles (8.0 km²), of which 2.9 square miles (7.5 km²) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km²) (6.11%) is water.

The Allegheny River from the Kinzua Dam to the City of Warren has been designated a "Recreational Waterway" by the United States Congress.

Sport Warren hosted minor league baseball in three different leagues. The 1895 "Warren" team first played minor league baseball as members of the Iron and Oil League. Between 1908 and 1916, Warren hosted the Warren Blues (1908), Warren Bingoes (1914–1915) and Warren Warriors (1916) teams, who all played as members of the Class D level Interstate League. In 1940 and 1941, the Warren Redskins and Warren Buckeyes played in the Class D level Pennsylvania State Association. The team was a minor league affiliate of the Cleveland Indians in 1940. The Warren teams played home minor league games at Russell Park.

Education Northern Pennsylvania Regional College (or NPRC) is an open-admissions college established in 2017 and, as of May 28, 2019, is authorized by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to grant degrees and certificates in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

For public K-12 education, the Warren County School District provides four elementary schools (Eisenhower, Sheffield Area, Warren Area, and Youngsville), one middle school (Beaty-Warren), three middle-high schools (Eisenhower, Sheffield Area, and Youngsville), and one high school (Warren Area).

The Warren County Career Center is an area vocational-technical school serving only the students in the Warren County School District. The Career Center provides training in multiple vocational fields to students in grades 10 through 12.