Pleasant View Pennsylvania Map

About Pleasant View, Pennsylvania

Pleasant View is a locality in Dauphin 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 occupies a quiet reach of land where the earth rises in slow, deliberate swells toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It lies 3.6 miles west-southwest of Swatara, PA (from Swatara, PA: bearing 255°T), and is situated 8.1 miles east of Harrisburg. Beaver Creek carves a narrow, persistent path through the local soil, its waters mirroring the iron-gray light of late autumn afternoons as it flows past the manicured lawns of Mario And Clorinda Schiavoni Park. Beyond the park’s perimeter, the landscape yields to a patchwork of fallow fields and thickets that hold the damp chill of the inland air, far removed from the brine or surge of any coast. The horizon remains wide and uncluttered, save for the occasional stand of timber that marks the transition toward the deeper woods found further out in Haldeman State Forest.

Pleasant View holds the quiet gravity of a place built on the foundations of industry and the persistent, unyielding labor of those who settled the valley floor. While the roar of earlier, more frantic commerce has faded, the rhythm of the local economy remains tied to the modest scale of regional trade and the seasonal cycles of the surrounding countryside. Residents often look toward the nearby Middletown Reservoir when the heat of July settles heavy over the pavement, or they seek the steady, rhythmic collapse of water at Conewago Falls to clear the mind. Those who prefer the solitude of the woods follow the Darlington Trail, tracing paths that have been worn smooth by generations of feet. Here, the passage of time is measured not by grand events, but by the way the light catches the gable ends of brick houses as the day retreats into the long shadows of the valley.

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 Dauphin County (Harrisburg), 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.