Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 387
Land area (2000): 0.552490 sq. miles (1.430942 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.552490 sq. miles (1.430942 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53725
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 38.779969 N, 95.557202 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66524
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Overbrook
Wikipedia
Overbrook is the name of several places:
United States of America- Overbrook, Delaware
- Overbrook Shores, Delaware
- Overbrook, Georgia
- Overbrook, Kansas
- Overbrook, New Jersey
- Overbrook, Oklahoma
- Overbrook, Philadelphia, a neighborhood
- Overbrook (Pittsburgh), a neighborhood
- Overbrook (Greenville, South Carolina)
- Overbrook, Ottawa, a neighborhood
Overbrook is a neighborhood on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's South Hills area. It has zip codes of 15227, 15234 and 15210 and has representation on Pittsburgh City Council by the council member for District 4 (South Neighborhoods). Originally called Fairhaven, the name was changed to Overbrook when breaking away from Baldwin Township to become a borough. Overbrook is located at the edge of the city, south of Downtown, and is surrounded by the city neighborhoods Brookline and Carrick and the boroughs of Castle Shannon and Whitehall. Overbrook Borough was one of the last annexed into the City of Pittsburgh. The historic Overbrook Community Center retains its borough origins and is still used by the community.
Overbrook is convenient to both Phillips and Brookline Parks, as well the Brownsville Road and Brookline Boulevard business districts. It is an easy trip on the South Busway to Downtown, Station Square, and Century III and South Hills Village malls with a light rail and busway stations.
Overbrook has experienced an influx of young families with children in recent years. The Overbrook Center and ballfield provide recreation for youth.
Overbrook is a neighborhood in Greenville, South Carolina. It is a neighborhood built in 1913 upon expansion of the trolley line that was extended into the area three years earlier. Bungalow homes were built in this area from 1913 to 1924. Overbrook was developed by the Woodside brothers, who had made their fortunes managing the Woodside Cotton Mill, at one point the largest textile plant in the World.
The trolley, called "The Toonerville Trolley", remained popular and continued despite the switch to bus transportation in 1928.
Its ZIP code is 29607.
The neighborhood is bordered by Pleasantburg Drive to the west, East North Street to the south, Stone Avenue to the east, and Laurens Road to the north. Interstate 385 runs through this neighborhood at Exits 40B and 42.
Usage examples of "overbrook".
The Overbrooks had dinner at six-thirty, while the Babbitts never dined before seven.
At the class-dinner he had seen poor Overbrook, in a shiny blue serge business-suit, being diffident in a corner with three other failures.
Ed Overbrook and his wife were as awkward and threadbare as usual, and the other guests were two dreadful families whose names Babbitt never caught and never desired to catch.
But he was touched, and disconcerted, by the tactless way in which Overbrook praised him: "We're mighty proud to have old George here to-night!
As Overbrook helped him with his coat, Babbitt said, "Nice to rub up on the old days!
Angus came in when we had the Overbrooks there, and thought they were friends of ours!
But as they never saw the Overbrooks, they forgot them, and after a month or two they said, "That really was the best way, just to let it slide.
It was little Phil Mitchell, of Overbrook, a University of Pennsylvania man, who had been stopped in his junior year by a financial catastrophe in the family, and had gone out to Idaho to earn his living as third assistant bookkeeper in a big mining concern.
The train would be still or stop-starting from 30th Street to near Overbrook, and I could hear them say names and sentences.
The more famous outbreak in Overbrook, Kansas, on 30 Jan is now regarded as a secondary event.