Klahr Pennsylvania Map

About Klahr, Pennsylvania

Klahr is a locality in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 76. The population density is 217.4 people per km². Klahr is located at 40.2992°N, 78.5128°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16625.

Klahr persists as a quiet confluence of limestone and shadow where the Smoky Run traces a narrow, serpentine path through the earth. It lies 16.4 miles south-southwest of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 202°T), and is situated 9.7 miles south-southwest of Penn Farms. The landscape surrounding Klahr is defined by a persistent, rhythmic topography, where the land rises toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains. To the west, the terrain dips into the quietude of Wolf Hollow, while the proximity of Blue Knob State Park lends a dense, arboreal density to the horizon. The air here holds a particular weight, often cooling rapidly as the sun retreats behind the ridges, casting long, bruised purples across the fields that remain after the forest edges of Babcock State Forest have been swallowed by the dark.

Economic life in Klahr has long been dictated by the stubborn resilience of the soil and the legacy of regional extraction that once defined the wider corridor. While the frantic pulse of industrial centers remains a distant echo, the local rhythm is synchronized with the seasonal shifts of the Pennsylvania landscape, favoring the slow, methodical labor of those who work the land or navigate the transit routes carved into the valley floors. Seven miles away, the stillness of the Portage Reservoir provides a reflective surface for the changing leaves, a reminder of the water that sustains the deep, limestone-rich basin. Life moves with an unadorned directness, grounded in the practicalities of a region that has watched the world transform from the vantage point of its own enduring, quiet hills.

About This Klahr Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Klahr, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.299242, -78.512794. 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 Klahr includes the ZIP code (16625), 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 (Claysburg-Kimmel 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.