Ore Hill Pennsylvania Map

About Ore Hill, Pennsylvania

Ore Hill is a locality in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 106. The population density is 341.1 people per km². Ore Hill is located at 40.2937°N, 78.4008°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16673.

Ore Hill reveals itself as a landscape of rusted earth and deliberate silence, where the iron-rich soil colors the ground in shades of deep ochre and burnt umber. It lies 15.5 miles south of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 181°T), and is situated 9.3 miles south of Hollidaysburg. The terrain rises and falls with a rhythmic, muscular quality, defined by the proximity of State Game Land 041, which keeps the encroaching woodland wild and unmanicured against the domestic edges of the property lines. Cabbage Creek carves a thin, reflective line through the valley floor, its waters moving with a quiet, persistent gravity toward the lower elevations. Far to the west, the jagged, blue-tinted silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains anchors the horizon, providing a permanent, stoic backdrop to the changing light that catches the dust of the local roads at dusk.

Ore Hill retains a memory of its namesake industry, an echo of the extraction that once dictated the movement and labor of those who settled here. While the heavy machinery has long since departed, the economy of the region has transitioned into a quieter, more diffuse pattern of trade and land stewardship that honors the stubborn persistence of its founders. The nearby Wolf Hollow serves as a natural corridor for the winds that sweep down from the plateau, cooling the air during the humid midsummer afternoons. Residents of Ore Hill often look toward the distant ridges when the weather shifts, finding a sense of scale in the vast, wooded expanses that separate the local pace of life from the frantic industrial centers elsewhere in the state.

About This Ore Hill Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ore Hill, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.293688, -78.400847. 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 Ore Hill includes the ZIP code (16673), 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 (Spring Cove 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.