Parkhill Pennsylvania Map

About Parkhill, Pennsylvania

Parkhill is a locality in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 346. The population density is 257.1 people per km². Parkhill is located at 40.3612°N, 78.8709°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 15945.

Parkhill emerges from the dense, folded topography of the Allegheny Plateau where the air holds the cool, damp weight of the deep woods. It lies 3.6 miles northeast of Johnstown, PA (from Johnstown, PA: bearing 49°T), and is situated 5.3 miles northeast of Westmont. The landscape is defined by the sharp, persistent descent of the land toward the Little Conemaugh River, a waterway that cuts a somber path through the earth only a mile from the center of the grid. To the east, the hazy, blue-tinted silhouettes of the Allegheny Mountains command the horizon, while the local terrain is carved by the stillness of the nearby Hinckston Run Reservoir. Within the immediate neighborhood, the ground levels out into the communal expanse of Parkhill Playground, providing a flat, open stage for the daily movements of residents against a backdrop of darkening timber and rising slopes.

Parkhill maintains a quiet, industrial inheritance, a legacy rooted in the iron and coal veins that once dictated the pulse of this entire region. The economy has shifted from the heavy, soot-stained labors of the past, yet the local character retains a sturdy, unpretentious resolve that mirrors the ruggedness of the surrounding State Forest Lands. Residents occasionally traverse the Roger Mountain Trail or seek the rhythmic, percussive sound of water at Winding Staircase Falls, finding a reprieve from the modern pace in the solitude of the high ridges. Life here moves with the deliberate gravity of a place that understands its own isolation, far from the frantic energy of the coast, defined instead by the seasonal turning of leaves in Soap Hollow and the steady, quiet endurance of a settlement built upon the high, ancient bedrock of Pennsylvania.

About This Parkhill Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Parkhill, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.361185, -78.870857. 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 Parkhill includes the ZIP code (15945), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Cambria County (Ebensburg), and school district assignment (Conemaugh Valley 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.