Biohazard Cleanup Near Downtown Export Export, PA

Export is a borough in Westmoreland County, about 20 miles east of Pittsburgh, completely surrounded by the municipality of Murrysville and covering roughly 0.4 square miles.

The borough is named for exactly what it did: coal was mined in the town and exported from it, and local history describes Export as the first place where coal was exported abroad.

Export's post office has operated since 1892, the year the Westmoreland Coal Company opened its No. 2 mine there - the first major mine on the Turtle Creek Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Coal from Export's mines was shipped as far as Philadelphia and New York.

Export was incorporated as a borough on November 11, 1911.

The remains of the Westmoreland Coal Company's South No. 2 mine are still visible behind the district court building on Washington Avenue; a 2018 project unearthed three old mine entrances, and a fourth was rediscovered in January 2019.

The Export Historical Society tells the town's coal story in a local history museum housed in a replica train station, which opened in 2022.

The 2020 census counted 893 people in Export, down slightly from 917 in 2010, and the borough's population peaked around 1920 in its coal-boom years.

In the 2000 census Export had 895 residents living in 455 households.

Export students attend the Franklin Regional School District, based in surrounding Murrysville and home to Franklin Regional High School.