Most of West Mayfield lies along the north and south of a long, steep hill called 37th Street, part of Route 251.

Before the industries began, there were only the farmlands of the Whites, Edwards, Harbisons, Ridings, Waggoners and Schuttes, about a dozen houses and a little schoolhouse.

Thirty-seventh Street was a narrow dirt road traveled by a few buggies and wagons in the summer and in the winter by a similar number of sleds and sleighs.

He worked in the gold fields of California for a year and returned to buy a farm on 37th Street hill.

The Edwards School building also served as a community meeting house and as an auditorium for lectures and other programs.

That year, 1924, the three teachers at the West Park building were Mr. Balph, and the Misses Anna Birnnisser and Florence Garvin, with the enrollment expected to be between 105 and 110.

Ten years later, in the fall of 1969, a one-story addition was occupied, and the Liberty School was no longer required for classrooms.

The enrollment at West Park has declined from a projected 255, in the Long Range Developmental Program of the Blackhawk District, (1970), to about 155 for the 1980–81 school year.

Previously, secondary education was available in the Beaver Falls schools; when the borough became a part of the Highland jointure, students could attend the Highland Junior High and Northwestern High School, or they could choose to go to Beaver Falls.

St. Philomena Catholic Church serves the West Mayfield community, though it is located just outside the borough boundaries.

The congregation began from the need for Christian teaching for children in the West Mayfield Housing Project in 1948.

From a group of children in Sunday School classes in the community building of the project, the attendance grew, and a congregation formed which was known as the West Mayfleld Reformed Presbyterian Mission.

They separated from the affiliation with the Reformed Presbyterian denomination and were chartered in 1962 as the West Mayfleld Community Church.

It continued until about fifteen years ago when Ken Engle purchased the building from the College Hill Reformed Church for the purpose of holding Boy Scout meetings.

It served the Boy Scouts for ten years until the present congregation purchased the chapel from Mr. Engle.

Other manufacturers followed; present ones include Mayfleld Foundry, maker of castings for the local mills and manufacturer of heritage articles of early American Colonial days, and Standard Steel Specialty Company, maker of elevator guides and other products.

As the new tube mill was built, there was a need for homes and workmen and their families, so the farms gradually became subdivisions.

It is a fairly densely populated area, as contrasted with Chippewa, Darlington, or South Beaver townships.

They have an active Volunteer Fire Department, and the school has enjoyed the support of a fine Parent-Teacher Organization.

An extensive flat area features three ball fields, basketball and tennis courts, picnic shelters and playground equipment.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2), all land.

West Mayfield is home to a picturesque community park containing a meandering stream called Walnut Bottom Run, which eventually empties into the Beaver River.