Raccoon, Pennsylvania

Raccoon Township is a township that is located in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,788 at the time of the 2020 census.It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

Second Moon Township, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, existed from 1800 to 1812.

Elizabeth M was a towboat that sank in the Ohio River on January 9, 2005. The sinking of the vessel resulted in the death of four of the seven crew when the Elizabeth M accidentally went over the Montgomery Locks and Dam near the Pittsburgh suburb of Industry, Pennsylvania. It was originally named the B.F. Fairless, in honor of Benjamin Franklin Fairless, when it was launched by the Dravo Corporation in 1951.

The Montgomery Locks and Dam are part of a lock and dam system that is located on the Ohio River in the United States.

West Aliquippa is a village near Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, United States. It is only one of two villages (the other being Fombell) in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The community is actually located just north of the city of Aliquippa, from which it derives its name. West Aliquippa is located on the Ohio River. It shares a ZIP code with Aliquippa: 15001. West Aliquippa is part of the Aliquippa City School District.

Kobuta is an unincorporated community that is located in Potter Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is situated next to the Ohio River, due west of Monaca, southwest of Industry, and southwest of Beaver.

WOGI (104.3 FM) is a radio station that broadcasts a Froggy-branded, country music, format. Licensed in the Pittsburgh suburb of Moon Township, Pennsylvania, United States, the station serves the Pittsburgh Media Market. This station serves as the defacto flagship station of Forever Media, LLC (based in Pittsburgh) and simulcasts on WOGG and WOGH.

Bruce Mansfield Power Plant was a 2.49-gigawatt (2,490 MW), coal power plant located in Shippingport, Pennsylvania in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The plant was operated by FirstEnergy. It began operations in 1976 and was shut down in November 2019.

USAir Flight 427 was a scheduled flight from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to Palm Beach International Airport, Florida, with a stopover at Pittsburgh International Airport. On Thursday, September 8, 1994, the Boeing 737 flying this route crashed in Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania while approaching Runway 28R at Pittsburgh, which was USAir's largest hub at the time. After the longest investigation in the history of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), it was determined that the probable cause was that the aircraft's rudder malfunctioned and went hard over in a direction opposite to that commanded by the pilots, causing the plane to enter an aerodynamic stall from which the pilots were unable to recover. All 132 people on board were killed, making the crash the deadliest air disaster in Pennsylvania's history.

Shippingport is a borough in western Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States, located along the Ohio River. The population was 160 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Shippingport is home to the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station, and formerly the Bruce Mansfield Power Plant and Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the world's first full-scale atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime uses.

The David Littell House is a historic house in Hanover Township in the southwestern part of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States.: 1  Built in 1851, the house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Raccoon Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Raccoon Creek joins the Ohio River in Potter Township. Only a small portion of the creek is located within Raccoon Creek State Park. The stream within the park is Little Traverse Creek.