Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania Map

About Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania

Mount Pleasant is a locality in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,245. The population density is 1637.4 people per km². Mount Pleasant is located at 40.1509°N, 79.5434°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Mount Pleasant is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 15301, 17340, 17019.

Mount Pleasant claims a rugged elevation upon the western edge of the Allegheny Plateau, where the horizon stretches toward the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Allegheny Mountains. It lies 23.9 miles south-southeast of Meadville, PA (from Meadville, PA: bearing 158°T), and is situated 8.6 miles southwest of Sugarcreek. The landscape surrounding Mount Pleasant unfolds in a series of deep, verdant folds and wide, sweeping elevations, defined by the quiet passage of Sandy Creek just a mile from the center. Beyond the immediate development, the terrain yields to the dense, quiet timber of Clear Creek State Forest Kennerdell Tract, while the low, misty depression of Haggerty Hollow waits five miles away to offer a sanctuary of cooling shadows. When the afternoon sun sinks low, the light catches the golden, brittle grasses of State Game Land 039, casting long, lean silhouettes across the earth and turning the air into a cool, thin veil that hums with the coming dusk.

Industrial ambition once fueled the growth of Mount Pleasant, leaving behind a legacy of brick and iron that anchors the character of the streets to a time of coal and coke production. Though the heavy smoke of the kilns has long since dissipated, the economy of Mount Pleasant remains tethered to the steady, pragmatic pulse of small-scale commerce and local trade, eschewing the frantic velocity of larger centers for a more grounded, deliberate pace. Residents often wander toward the banks of Sandy Creek or venture toward the quiet, reflective waters of Polk Dam Lake, finding in these spaces a necessary stillness that contrasts with the rhythmic clatter of daily work. Life here carries the weight of a long-settled existence, where the architecture of the older buildings serves as a quiet reminder of those who first cleared the timber and turned the soil of this interior plateau.

About This Mount Pleasant Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.150932, -79.543363. 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 Mount Pleasant includes the ZIP code (15301, 17340, 17019), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Venango County (Franklin), and school district assignment (Mount Pleasant 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.