Foot of Ten Pennsylvania Map

About Foot of Ten, Pennsylvania

Foot of Ten is a locality in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 560. The population density is 374.1 people per km². Foot of Ten is located at 40.4159°N, 78.4553°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16635.

Foot of Ten occupies a rugged transition where the low-lying terrain begins its earnest climb toward the distant, hazy ramparts of the Allegheny Mountains. It lies 7.8 miles south-southwest of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 204°T), and is situated 3.6 miles west-southwest of Hollidaysburg. The landscape is defined by the steady, persistent pulse of Blair Gap Run, which cuts a narrow path through the earth, drawing the eye toward the shadowed contours of Maple Hollow. Here, the air holds a cool, mineral weight, especially as the late afternoon light flattens against the slope, turning the surrounding scrub and hardwood into a study of muted ochre and deep, bruised gray. It is a place where the land itself seems to hold its breath, waiting for the seasons to shift across the uneven ground that marks the ascent into the higher, more formidable ridges of the interior.

Foot of Ten carries the quiet, mechanical ghost of a history built upon the labor of early transit and the movement of goods across the difficult, steep geography of the region. Where the economy once turned on the gears of iron and the steam of early industry, the pace has settled into a steady, modest maintenance of domestic life, far removed from the clamor of the wider world. Residents might spend a Saturday morning near the Duncansville Reservoir, where the water mirrors the sky with a clarity that belies the industrial grit of the past, or find quietude in the green, manicured stretches of Duncansville Memorial Park. The character of Foot of Ten remains tethered to this intersection of old engineering and the enduring, silent presence of the hills, maintaining a deliberate distance from the frantic expansion found in the larger valleys below.

About This Foot of Ten Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Foot of Ten, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.415906, -78.455292. 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 Foot of Ten includes the ZIP code (16635), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Blair County (Hollidaysburg), and school district assignment (Hollidaysburg 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.