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Slippery Rock is a borough in Butler County, Pennsylvania, in the Greater Pittsburgh region, best known as the home of Slippery Rock University.

The name Slippery Rock comes from a colonial-era story in which Seneca warriors chasing European soldiers lost their footing on the moss-covered rocks of a local creek, which the Seneca then named Slippery Rock Creek.

The town began as Ginger Hill, where a post office was established in 1826, and it was incorporated as a borough under the name Centreville in 1841 before being renamed Slippery Rock in 1896 after the creek.

Slippery Rock University was founded in the borough in 1889 as Slippery Rock State Normal School, became Slippery Rock State College in 1960, and took its current name, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, in 1983.

Slippery Rock University enrolls nearly 9,000 students — several times the borough's own population — and part of its campus lies within the borough limits.

Slippery Rock had a population of 3,081 at the 2020 census, living in 1,258 households, and its median age was just 24.2 years because of the huge student presence.

Slippery Rock's population spiked to 4,949 in the 1970 census during the university's growth era before settling back to roughly 3,100 by 2020.

The university's Rock football team plays at Bob DiSpirito Field at N. Kerr Thompson Stadium, and its baseball team plays at Jack Critchfield Park.

Local children attend the Slippery Rock Area School District, while university students get around on the Student Government Association's 'Happy Bus' service.

Slippery Rock gets about 45 inches of precipitation a year, and NOAA climate records for the borough include a record high of 102 degrees Fahrenheit and a record low of minus 28 degrees.