Roots Pennsylvania Map

About Roots, Pennsylvania

Roots is a locality in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 101. The population density is 378.6 people per km². Roots is located at 40.6134°N, 78.3611°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16686.

Roots occupies a narrow, quiet crease in the earth where the landscape rises into the rugged, forested spine of the Allegheny Mountains. It lies 6.8 miles north-northeast of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 15°T), and is situated 7.5 miles west-southwest of Tyrone. The Bells Gap Run carves a path through the terrain, its waters drawing a silver thread past the modest dwellings that define the character of Roots. To the east, the horizon is held by the jagged, shadowed heights of the peaks, while the nearby Bellwood Reservoir catches the pale, slant light of late afternoon, mirroring the hemlocks and maples that crowd its banks. Only a mile away, the expansive, wooded acreage of State Game Land 158 offers a dense, quiet sanctuary of oak and mountain laurel, keeping the encroachment of modern industry at a respectful distance.

History in Roots is written in the stubborn endurance of those who first cleared the timber and laid the rails that once hummed with the weight of coal and iron from the nearby Logan Valley. The economy has long since shifted from the frantic extraction of resources to a slower, more deliberate pace, where the labor of the day is marked by the cooling air of the valley floor rather than the whistle of a foundry. Residents here recognize the changing seasons by the way the frost settles on the ridges and the way the autumn leaves drift into the dark, cold currents of the creek. Life in Roots persists with a quiet gravity, anchored by the familiarity of the surrounding hills and the enduring, unadorned strength of a mountain-adjacent existence.

About This Roots Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Roots, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.613399, -78.361126. 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 Roots includes the ZIP code (16686), 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 (Bellwood-Antis 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.