Amity Pennsylvania Map

About Amity, Pennsylvania

Amity is a locality in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. Amity is located at 40.0395°N, 80.2051°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 18951, 15311, 19503.

Amity reveals itself through a landscape of persistent, quiet slopes that rise and fall with the steady rhythm of the surrounding plateau. It lies 9.5 miles south-southeast of Washington, PA (from Washington, PA: bearing 167°T), and is situated 7.7 miles south-southwest of Mount Pleasant Washington County. Horne Run carves a narrow, serpentine path through the terrain just a mile away, its waters moving with a deliberate, low-voiced persistence that defines the local hydrology. The air here holds a crisp, earthen clarity, especially during the long, golden afternoons when the light catches the dried grasses and turns the fields into muted shades of copper and straw. While the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Allegheny Mountains occasionally haunt the far horizon, the immediate topography is defined by the intimate, sheltered geometry of the land. Amwell Township Park provides a modest, green anchor for the vicinity, offering a quiet space where the primary movement is the slow oscillation of wind through the brush rather than the haste of modern life.

Amity carries the weight of a long agricultural lineage in its soil, where the persistence of farmsteads and old stone foundations suggests a history built on a slow, patient cultivation of the earth. The local economy has shifted from the early patterns of subsistence and small-scale trade, yet the town maintains a character that feels detached from the frantic industrial centers found further north toward the rivers of Pittsburgh. Residents often look toward the deeper, more shadowed depressions like Black Dog Hollow as markers of the landscape’s older, wilder nature, contrasting sharply with the ordered rows of the nearby valley floors. The social life here is anchored in the small, recurring rituals of a place that values the steady, predictable turning of the seasons above all else. Even the nearby Bells Lakes offer a tranquil, mirrored stillness that reflects the sky, serving as a quiet respite that has anchored the local sense of place for generations.

About This Amity Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Amity, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.039517, -80.20506. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Amity includes the ZIP code (18951, 15311, 19503), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Washington County (Washington), and school district assignment.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.