Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Sagamore, PA

Sagamore is an unincorporated community in Cowanshannock Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, with ZIP code 16250.

Sagamore was created as a company coal town in 1905, when the Buffalo and Susquehanna Coal and Coke Company opened a large operation there on the extension of the Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad.

The Sagamore Coalfield, named for the first large mining enterprise in the area, lay along Cowanshannock Creek and the North Branch of Plum Creek, and its mines worked the Upper Freeport and Lower Freeport coal seams.

Sagamore's steel coal tipple was a giant — an August 1909 issue of Mines and Minerals magazine called the Sagamore plant "probably the largest coal-mining plant in the United States," and a sign beside the post office still memorializes it as the "World's Largest Coal Tipple" of the 1920s.

By 1908, eight mines were operating at Sagamore, numbered eleven through eighteen — two of them across the line in Indiana County and six in Armstrong County.

At its World War I-era peak, an estimated 1,600 men worked at Sagamore's mines.

The Sagamore Hotel was built in 1905 to house the managers and professionals supervising construction of the town and mines, and it stood for a century before burning in August 2005.

Sagamore's post office opened in 1906 and remains in operation today.

Sagamore sits about 1,120 feet above sea level, and its ZIP code area counted 404 residents in 147 households at the 2020 census.

Baseball player Dorothy Kovalchick (1925–2020), who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, was born in Sagamore.