South Uniontown Pennsylvania Map

About South Uniontown, Pennsylvania

South Uniontown is a locality in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,325. The population density is 1124.4 people per km². South Uniontown is located at 39.8929°N, 79.7470°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 15401.

South Uniontown emerges from the landscape as a quiet collection of streets defined by the steady, unobserved movement of Coal Lick Run carving its path through the earth. It lies 19.0 miles south of Rostraver, PA (from Rostraver, PA: bearing 170°T), and is situated 1.7 miles west-southwest of Uniontown. This waterway serves as the primary pulse of the local geography, cutting through a terrain that feels distant from the jagged drama of the Allegheny Mountains, which remain a faint, hazy suggestion on the far horizon. Residents walk the paths of Areford Community Park, where the light at dusk flattens against the grass, casting long, thin shadows that seem to anchor the neighborhood to the soil. Beyond the immediate periphery, the dense, green canopy of Forbes State Forest provides a permanent backdrop, its presence cooling the air and reminding those who live here of the vast, quiet wilderness that begins only a few miles away.

South Uniontown bears the subtle, enduring imprint of an industrial heritage that shaped the region’s architecture and the rigid, functional layout of its residential blocks. The economy here, long tethered to the extraction and movement of resources that once powered the nation, has settled into a slower, more deliberate pace, leaving the community to find its own rhythm in the wake of those busier years. Local life is punctuated by the proximity of White Rock Hollow, a basin that holds the cool, damp air of the morning, and the nearby Mile Trail, which offers a quiet passage for those seeking to move through the landscape. Life here is measured in the changing color of the leaves and the quiet maintenance of a place that values its own privacy, standing as a sturdy, grounded entity far from the clamor of the coast or the density of larger, more frantic urban centers.

About This South Uniontown Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of South Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 39.892854, -79.746989. 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 South Uniontown includes the ZIP code (15401), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Fayette County (Uniontown), and school district assignment (Laurel Highlands 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.