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Crafton is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, a residential suburb just west of downtown Pittsburgh in the Chartiers Creek valley.

Crafton is named after James S. Craft, a frontier attorney whose land sales near the forks of the Ohio helped finance purchases in the Chartiers valley.

Crafton's son Charles Craft divided the land into lots, and the borough was incorporated on January 8, 1892, with Charles Craft as its first burgess.

Before European settlement the Crafton area was controlled by the Seneca, and Chief Cornplanter is believed to have called the area 'Killemun'; much older Adena burial mounds were found farther down Chartiers Creek.

A trolley line linked Crafton to downtown Pittsburgh starting in 1896, and the service only ended when the Fort Pitt Bridge was built without trolley tracks.

Crafton's population boomed from 1,927 in 1900 to 4,583 in 1910 and 7,163 in 1940, before settling at 6,099 in the 2020 census.

Crafton households are small: the borough had 3,079 households at the 2000 census, and recent Census Bureau figures put its average household at under two people (1.97).

The whole borough covers just 1.1 square miles, all of it land, bordered by Ingram and several Pittsburgh neighborhoods including Crafton Heights and Westwood.

Crafton Park, a 10.73-acre park on West Steuben Street, offers a swimming pool, an outdoor amphitheater, ball fields, bocce courts, and a community farm.

Crafton students attend the Carlynton School District, whose name blends the three boroughs it serves — Carnegie, Rosslyn Farms, and Crafton — and whose high school is Carlynton High School.