Taylor Pennsylvania Map

About Taylor, Pennsylvania

Taylor is a locality in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 6,294. The population density is 467.2 people per km². Taylor is located at 41.3958°N, 75.7147°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Taylor is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 15148, 18517.

Taylor occupies a landscape defined by the rugged, compressed geometry of the Pennsylvania interior, where the earth rises and falls in long, muscular ridges. It lies 2.2 miles south of Monroeville, PA (from Monroeville, PA: bearing 178°T), and is situated 8.2 miles south-southeast of Penn Hills. The terrain around Taylor holds a quiet gravity, dominated by the dense, verdant slopes that define the region’s character, while the persistent flow of Turtle Creek moves through the lowlands just a mile away, carving its path through the silt and stone. At the edge of the residential grid, Wall Borough Park serves as a modest clearing where the air feels thinner and the light, filtered through the canopy, turns a bruised, autumnal gold as the afternoon wanes. Though the distant peaks of the Allegheny Mountains remain a faint, serrated ink-line on the horizon, the immediate ground feels anchored by the permanence of the soil and the steady, unadorned presence of the surrounding woodland.

Taylor bears the mark of an industrial lineage, its streets laid out to accommodate the rhythms of a workforce that once pulled the wealth of the earth from deep beneath the surface. The remnants of that anthracite history still linger in the architecture of the older houses and the deliberate, functional grid of the neighborhood blocks, grounding the locality in a legacy of labor and persistence. B Y Recreational Park Lake, resting two miles away, offers a quiet expanse that balances the intensity of the town's past, providing a cooling stillness that contrasts with the memory of subterranean toil. Today, the economy has shifted toward modern industry and distribution, yet the spirit of Taylor remains tethered to the reality of the valley, defined by a local character that values the steady, rhythmic persistence of a life lived close to the land.

About This Taylor Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Taylor, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.395772, -75.714713. 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 Taylor includes the ZIP code (15148, 18517), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh), and school district assignment (Riverside 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.