Elmora Pennsylvania Map

About Elmora, Pennsylvania

Elmora is a locality in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 435. The population density is 150.9 people per km². Elmora is located at 40.6017°N, 78.7464°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 15722, 15737.

Elmora defines the rugged transition between the high plateaus and the deep, shadowed corridors of the earth. It lies 19.3 miles west-northwest of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 287°T), and is situated 4.4 miles south-southeast of Northern Cambria. The West Branch Susquehanna River carves a deliberate path past the settlement, its dark water reflecting the somber, heavy clouds that often congregate before a storm. To the west, the Allegheny Mountains rise as a jagged, purple silhouette against the fading light, while the immediate landscape remains defined by the quiet stillness of Bakerton Reservoir. The air here holds a crisp, metallic edge, carrying the scent of damp shale and cooling soil, as the land pulls itself upward into ridges that seem to guard the valley floor from the wider world.

Elmora bears the quiet weight of an industrial legacy that once relied upon the earth’s hidden resources, though now the pace of life has settled into a meditative, steady rhythm. The remnants of past labor linger in the weathered brick of the older storefronts, standing as artifacts of a time when the rails and the river dictated the flow of commerce. Residents find a communal stillness at Bakerton Recreation Park, where the boundaries between the managed landscape and the wilder woods begin to blur. While Driscoll Hollow keeps its secrets eight miles away, the people of Elmora carry on with a stoic grace, their daily movements shaped by the seasonal shift of the canopy and the persistent, unhurried current of the river nearby.

About This Elmora Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Elmora, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.601736, -78.746413. 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 Elmora includes the ZIP code (15722, 15737), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Cambria County (Ebensburg), and school district assignment (Cambria Heights 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.