Liberty Pennsylvania Map

About Liberty, Pennsylvania

Liberty is a locality in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,355. The population density is 635.9 people per km². Liberty is located at 40.3217°N, 79.8632°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Liberty is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 16930, 15430, 16743.

Liberty defines its own horizon through the rhythmic descent of the Youghiogheny River, which carves a path of dark, insistent water just beyond the threshold of the residential streets. It lies 1.6 miles south-southeast of McKeesport, PA (from McKeesport, PA: bearing 165°T), and is situated 9.7 miles east of Bethel Park. The topography here avoids the dramatic upheaval of the distant Allegheny Mountains, favoring instead the quiet, stubborn persistence of the plateau where the earth folds into the deep, shaded crease of Boston Hollow. In the cool hours of the morning, a thin, silver mist rises from the riverbed to cling to the low-lying woodland, while the light at dusk turns the surrounding timber to a bruised, metallic violet. Liberty Park provides a central clearing where the grass grows thick and unbothered, acting as a green anchor for a landscape that feels perpetually caught in the transition between the heavy industrial memory of the region and the slow, encroaching return of the forest.

Liberty carries the weight of a local economy once tethered to the iron and coal veins that dictated the pace of life for generations, though the current rhythm is dictated more by the quiet maintenance of a modest, inland existence. Five miles to the north, the waters of Butlers Lake remain a stagnant, reflective mirror for the sky, holding the stillness of a place that has long since moved past the frantic expansion of its founding era. The architecture of the older streets reveals a utilitarian heritage, with sturdy, narrow houses standing close to the ground as if to minimize their profile against the winter winds that scour the plateau. Residents move through the day with a deliberate, measured pace, acknowledging the legacy of the mills and the cooling furnaces that once defined the valley, now replaced by the persistent, unremarkable hum of a modern life that finds its peace in the absence of urgency.

About This Liberty Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Liberty, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.3217, -79.863158. 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 Liberty includes the ZIP code (16930, 15430, 16743), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh), and school district assignment (South Allegheny 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.