Pleasant View Pennsylvania Map

About Pleasant View, Pennsylvania

Pleasant View is a locality in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 677. The population density is 453.8 people per km². Pleasant View is located at 40.6093°N, 79.5751°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 17082, 16823, 17356.

Pleasant View emerges from the landscape as a quiet collection of slopes and hollows where the cold, clear current of Spring Creek carves a path through the limestone bedrock. It lies 10.1 miles north-northeast of State College, PA (from State College, PA: bearing 25°T), and is situated 0.9 miles north of Bellefonte. The horizon remains dominated by the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains, which stand as silent sentinels over the nearby lowlands. Within the immediate vicinity, the terrain dips into the quiet seclusion of Holt Hollow, while the nearby Howard State Nursery provides a dense, green filter for the local air. During the long, golden hours of late afternoon, the light catches the limestone dust of the roads, casting a pale, metallic sheen over the fields that stretch toward the distant banks of Foster Joseph Sayers Lake.

Pleasant View maintains an unpretentious character grounded in the legacy of the regional agrarian and industrial cycles that have long defined the Pennsylvania interior. The local economy persists through a blend of small-scale enterprise and the seasonal rhythms of the land, while the presence of the Bellefonte Little League Field serves as a central point of civic life where the summer evenings are measured in the sharp crack of a bat and the shouts of children. Walking the streets, one finds a sense of permanence in the architecture, which reflects the utilitarian durability of the state's traditional building styles. Residents often venture toward the Sand Rock Trail to traverse the rugged, wooded ridges that define the perimeter of their lives, finding in the silence of the woods a reprieve from the steady, mechanical hum of daily industry.

About This Pleasant View Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pleasant View, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.609262, -79.575054. 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 Pleasant View includes the ZIP code (17082, 16823, 17356), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Centre County (Bellefonte), and school district assignment (Kiski 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.