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Butler is a city and the county seat of Butler County, Pennsylvania, about 35 miles north of Pittsburgh in the Greater Pittsburgh region.

Butler was settled in 1803 by John and Samuel Cunningham, became a borough in 1817 and a city in 1918, and was named for Major General Richard Butler, who was killed at the Battle of the Wabash - St. Clair's Defeat - in 1791.

Butler had a population of 13,502 people in 6,174 households at the 2020 census, well down from its industrial peak of 24,477 residents in 1940.

The Standard Steel Car Company opened one of its largest plants in Butler in 1902, building some of the first all-steel railroad cars with about 2,500 workers producing up to 60 cars a day; it merged into Pullman-Standard in 1934 and the plant closed in 1982.

Butler is the birthplace of the Jeep: in 1940 the American Bantam Car Company's design team, led by Karl Probst, created the original Jeep prototype in Butler, an achievement celebrated every year at the Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival.

The Butler Area Public Library, built in 1921, was the last Carnegie library built in Pennsylvania.

Butler Little Theatre has been producing plays in the city since 1941, and Butler's Maridon Museum is the only museum in western Pennsylvania devoted specifically to Chinese and Japanese art and culture.

Smithsonian magazine named Butler the seventh-best small town in America in May 2012.

Connoquenessing Creek flows through Butler; a 2000 study ranked it the second most polluted waterway in the United States after the Mississippi River, though it had recovered significantly by 2010.

Butler is served educationally by Butler County Community College (BC3), and its six labeled neighborhoods are Institute Hill, The Island, North Butler, South Hills, South Side, and West End.