Deer Lake Pennsylvania Map

About Deer Lake, Pennsylvania

Deer Lake is a locality in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 670. The population density is 589.3 people per km². Deer Lake is located at 40.6209°N, 76.0568°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Deer Lake is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 15470, 17961.

Deer Lake occupies a quiet portion of the landscape where the land settles into a series of modest elevations and shallow depressions, defined primarily by the persistent, rhythmic presence of Meadow Run as it carves its path through the earth. It lies 24.6 miles south-southeast of Rostraver, PA (from Rostraver, PA: bearing 152°T), and is situated 7.6 miles east-southeast of Uniontown. The air here holds a particular clarity, often cooling rapidly as the sun retreats behind the distant silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains, casting long, bruised shadows that stretch across the fields. Beyond the immediate clearings, the terrain yields to the dense, dark timber of Forbes State Forest, a vast expanse that keeps the encroaching modern world at a deliberate distance. To the west, the topography dips into the quiet seclusion of Trout Hollow, while the nearby State Game Land 051 offers a expanse of managed wilderness where the undergrowth remains thick and undisturbed, favoring the fox and the deer over the ambitions of men.

Deer Lake remains a place where the economy is tethered to the slow, seasonal pulse of the surrounding woodlands and the modest requirements of those who have chosen to dwell in the interior. History here does not shout through monumental architecture, but instead persists in the simple, sturdy frames of houses and the way the light catches the morning frost on the local meadows. While the region lacks the industrial clamor of the major river valleys to the west, it gains a certain gravity from its proximity to the rugged wilderness, where the Great Gorge Trail invites a different sort of movement through the landscape. Life in Deer Lake moves with an unpretentious pace, measured not by the frantic speed of the interstate, but by the subtle changes in the canopy and the way the water in Meadow Run shifts color as the seasons turn toward winter.

About This Deer Lake Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Deer Lake, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.620874, -76.056838. 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 Deer Lake includes the ZIP code (15470, 17961), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Fayette County (Uniontown), and school district assignment (Blue Mountain School District).

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.