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Wilmore is a borough in south-central Cambria County, Pennsylvania, set in the valley of the Little Conemaugh River about 8 miles south of Ebensburg, the county seat.

Wilmore was settled in 1831 and incorporated as a borough on February 10, 1859.

The town was laid out on June 4, 1831, by Bernard Wilmore; it was first known as Guinea and then renamed Jefferson at the urging of pioneer priest Father Demetrius Gallitzin, but the Jefferson name never caught on and the town took the Wilmore family name instead.

The borough is named for the Wilmore family, whose ancestor Godfrey Wilmore - a freed slave who could read and write at a time when that was rare - built the first sawmill in this section of Cambria County on the Little Conemaugh River.

The Allegheny Portage Railroad, the famous inclined-plane line that carried canal boats over the Allegheny Mountains, ran through Wilmore; the contract for its Section 15 was let on June 10, 1831, and the line was completed in 1834.

Wilmore had a population of 206 at the 2020 census, down from 225 in 2010, continuing a long decline from 386 residents in 1970.

The 2000 census counted just 89 households in Wilmore, and the whole borough covers only about a third of a square mile, all of it land.

Wilmore's post office opened in 1832, just a year after the town was founded, and the borough's ZIP code is 15962.

Wilmore is part of the Johnstown metropolitan area, and German is the most commonly reported ancestry among its residents.

Wilmore students attend the Forest Hills School District; before Forest Hills was formed in 1966, the old Beaverdale-Wilmore High School was one of four local high schools merged into it.