Thompsontown Pennsylvania Map

About Thompsontown, Pennsylvania

Thompsontown is a locality in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 631. The population density is 747.3 people per km². Thompsontown is located at 40.5658°N, 77.2361°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Thompsontown is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 15753, 17094.

Thompsontown holds a quiet corner of the landscape where the land settles into a steady, agrarian composure. It lies 24.1 miles north-northwest of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 329°T), and is situated 17.6 miles southwest of Clearfield. The Wilson Run traces a path through the low ground, its waters moving with a deliberate clarity that mirrors the gray, shifting light of the sky above the valley floor. To the west, the distant silhouettes of the Allegheny Mountains anchor the horizon, offering a permanent, silent boundary to the view. Within the nearby expanse of State Game Land 120, the woods thicken into a dense, undisturbed quiet, while the landscape beyond stretches toward the gentle depression of Dotts Hollow, where the shadows linger longer in the afternoon.

Thompsontown carries the weight of a history rooted in the rhythmic demands of the soil and the steady passage of the seasons. The local economy maintains a patient endurance, favoring the quiet productivity of small-scale commerce and the enduring legacy of agricultural labor that has defined these fields for generations. Life here moves with the measured pace of a pendulum, unbothered by the frantic pulse of larger hubs, finding its own cadence in the morning frost or the summer humidity that clings to the valley. Whether one wanders toward the Irvona Reservoir or walks the quiet edges of the village, there remains a sense of profound stillness, as if the land itself were waiting for nothing more than the next turn of the earth.

About This Thompsontown Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Thompsontown, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.565799, -77.236131. 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 Thompsontown includes the ZIP code (15753, 17094), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Clearfield County (Clearfield), and school district assignment (Juniata County 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.