Westmont Pennsylvania Map

About Westmont, Pennsylvania

Westmont is a locality in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,982. The population density is 813.3 people per km². Westmont is located at 40.3195°N, 78.9524°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Westmont is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 16601, 17046, 15905.

Westmont commands the high ground of the plateau, where the terrain rises in a series of wooded shoulders that catch the sharp, thinning light of the afternoon. It lies 1.6 miles southwest of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 225°T), and is situated 5.4 miles north-northwest of Hollidaysburg. The Mill Run traces a path through the lower reaches, its waters carving a quiet, persistent channel through the earth as they move toward the greater drainage of the region. To the west, the distant summits of the Allegheny Mountains define the horizon, their jagged silhouettes standing against the sky like the spine of a sleeping giant. The air here carries a crisp, inland weight, untouched by any salt, smelling instead of damp loam and the resinous scent of pine that drifts from the nearby slopes of the Allegheny Reservoir. Within the borders of Westmont, Iuzzolino Park offers a green reprieve, a space where the slope of the land holds the sun longer than the deep shadows of the neighboring Carson Valley.

Westmont grew from the industrial ambition that once defined the valleys below, its character shaped by the steady, rhythmic pulse of the iron and steel era that animated the surrounding landscape. The economy has shifted away from the heavy furnaces that once colored the evening sky, yet the legacy of that labor remains in the solid, unpretentious brick of the houses and the deliberate, measured pace of the streets. Life here moves with a certain gravity, grounded by the history of the families who built their lives upon these heights, looking out over the basins where the smoke of the past has long since cleared. The people of Westmont maintain a quiet pride in the durability of their surroundings, finding satisfaction in the simple, enduring utility of the land and the way the seasons mark the time across the ridges. It is a place where the work of the present is done with an awareness of the heavy earth beneath, persistent and firm as the mountain range that watches over the town.

About This Westmont Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Westmont, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.319465, -78.952427. 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 Westmont includes the ZIP code (16601, 17046, 15905), 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 (Westmont Hilltop 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.