Shanksville (Pa.)
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Name (Hebrew)
שנקסוויל (פנסילבניה)
Name (Latin)
Shanksville (Pa.)
Coordinates
-78.90583333 -78.90583333 40.01722222 40.01722222 (gooearth )
W0785426 W0785426 N0400104 N0400104 (geonames )
Associated country
United States
MARC
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Sources of Information
- GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 40°01ʹ04ʺN 078°54ʹ26ʺW)
- Somerset County Planning Commission. Shanksville, 1969.
- Rand McNally comm. atlas, 1989(Shanksville, inc., in Somerset Co.)
Wikipedia description:
Shanksville is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of 199 as of the 2020 U.S. census. It is part of the Somerset, Pennsylvania, Micropolitan Statistical Area, and is located 78 miles (126 km) southeast of Pittsburgh and 226 miles (364 km) west of Philadelphia. Shanksville garnered global attention during the September 11 attacks when United Airlines Flight 93, bound from Newark, New Jersey, for San Francisco, crashed in adjacent Stonycreek Township after its passengers and crew members rebelled against the flight's al-Qaeda terrorist hijackers. It was the only one of the four hijacked planes that failed to reach the terrorists' intended target.
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