Saxonburg Travel Guide

A small western Pennsylvania town, in south Butler County. Saxonburg is located 23 miles northeast of Pittsburgh and 8 miles southeast of Butler. The one zip code in Saxonburg is 16056. As of November 2002, the borough population of Saxonburg is approximately 1,345 (the community population is 4,693). The approximate number of families is 580. The amount of land area in Saxonburg is 2.266 square kilometers. Saxonburg is positioned 40.75 degrees north of the equator and 79.81 degrees west of the prime meridian. Elevation is 1288 feet. Nearby towns are Cabot, Valencia, Sarver, and Bairdford.

Education

The area education is centered in a campus on Knoch Road, off of Dinnerbell Road. South Butler Primary School (grades K-2), South Butler Intermediate Elementary School (grades 3-5), Knoch Middle School (grades 6-8), and Knoch High School (grades 9-12). In the past (pre-2001), the elementary schools were decentralized into several schools (one in each Saxonburg, Winfield, Jefferson, Cliton and Penn townships, hopefully I haven't forgotten anyone), whose teams competed against each other in the grade school basketball leagues (which were refereed by Knoch basketball players), but then came together for high school at Knoch. Knoch's mascot is the Knights. Their football and baseball teams have also had some excellent seasons and standout performers recently, though the football team was in a slump in the 1990s. The football team is assisted greatly by the youth program, the Saxonburg Spartans, which is independent of the school district, and thus privately funded. In the 2002 season, the Knoch Knights had an outstanding (relative to past performance) regular season and made it to the second round of the playoffs. The senior class had previously won several years of midget football titles.

There are no colleges in the area, unless you count Butler County Community College, which is a commuter college and 20 minutes away, closer to Butler than to Saxonburg.