Rouseville Pennsylvania Map

About Rouseville, Pennsylvania

Rouseville is a locality in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 457. The population density is 197.6 people per km². Rouseville is located at 41.4689°N, 79.6909°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Rouseville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 16344.

Rouseville asserts its presence where the steady, dark currents of Cherry Run carve a narrow path through the rugged terrain of the Allegheny Plateau. It lies 26.6 miles east-southeast of Meadville, PA (from Meadville, PA: bearing 116°T), and is situated 2.5 miles north-northeast of Oil City. The landscape here is defined by deep, shadowed ravines and dense, deciduous woodlands that turn a muted, iron-gray when the late autumn light fades against the slope. Beyond the immediate banks of the creek, the earth rises into steep, broken ridges that seem to hold the morning mist long after the sun has climbed above the horizon. Residents often gather at the Rouseville Playground and Ballfield, a patch of maintained green that serves as a quiet anchor against the encroaching wildness of the surrounding timber.

Rouseville carries the weight of a frontier shaped by the sudden, violent discovery of subterranean wealth, a history that transformed the local economy from timber and grain into a frantic landscape of derricks and pipelines. While the intensity of the early oil boom has long since receded into the soil, the town retains a grounded, pragmatic character, shaped by the legacy of those who first tapped the deep reservoirs beneath the hills. The pace of life here moves with the deliberate, unadorned rhythm of a place that has seen its primary industry rise and settle, leaving behind a quiet resilience. Although the distant summits of the Allegheny Mountains remain only a faint, jagged silhouette against the western sky, the local identity remains firmly rooted in this specific, inland valley, where the memory of the forge and the drill press lingers in the architecture of the modest, brick-faced houses.

About This Rouseville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rouseville, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.468948, -79.690886. 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 Rouseville includes the ZIP code (16344), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Venango County (Franklin), and school district assignment (Oil City 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.