Everson, PA

Everson is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The 2020 census counted 768 residents. Established in the mid-18th century and incorporated in 1903, it developed as a coal and coke town, attracting many Polish immigrants who founded much of the borough's businesses. The borough's economy once centered on industry and a busy main street, but declined with the fall of coal and rail. The through line in Everson is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Everson makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. " The name was later applied to the waterway that traverses the area, Jacob's Creek, which today forms part of the boundary between Fayette and Westmoreland counties.

Early accounts indicate that some of the first permanent non-Indigenous settlers were Mennonites who established what came to be known as the Jacob's Creek Settlement. Everson is on the south side of Jacobs Creek, a tributary of the Youghiogheny River and which forms the border with Westmoreland County.