Fairfield Pennsylvania Map

About Fairfield, Pennsylvania

Fairfield is a locality in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 526. The population density is 301.8 people per km². Fairfield is located at 39.7890°N, 77.3698°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Fairfield is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 16511, 15345, 17320.

Fairfield holds a quiet stillness where the land rises in slow, deliberate swells toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains. It lies 14.4 miles southeast of Washington, PA (from Washington, PA: bearing 140°T), and is situated 5.8 miles north of Jefferson Greene County. The earth here is heavy with the patient weight of stone and silt, shaped by the steady, unobserved movement of Tenmile Creek as it carves a path through the valley floor. Four miles to the west, the shadows gather deep in Black Dog Hollow, a place where the light thins and the air turns cool even in the heat of an August afternoon. Only six miles away, the surface of Steves Lake catches the pale, flat gray of the sky, reflecting a landscape that prefers the subtle shifts of earth and timber to the grand gestures of more dramatic terrain.

Fairfield grew from the necessity of the soil, its early rhythm dictated by the harvest and the slow turning of the seasons that define this inland reach of Pennsylvania. The economy has long leaned into the land, drawing from the fields and the modest industry that sustains the residents who walk the paths of West Bethlehem Township Park. There is a particular permanence in the architecture, a local preference for materials that weather into the landscape rather than standing apart from it. Life in Fairfield moves with a measured pace, observing the changing of the leaves and the arrival of winter frost as events of consequence, grounding the daily work of the people in a geography that has remained largely unchanged for generations.

About This Fairfield Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fairfield, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 39.789001, -77.369819. 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 Fairfield includes the ZIP code (16511, 15345, 17320), 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 (Fairfield Area 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.