Woodside Pennsylvania Map

About Woodside, Pennsylvania

Woodside is a locality in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,443. The population density is 922.0 people per km². Woodside is located at 40.2300°N, 74.8594°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 18224, 15478, 17370.

Woodside occupies a quiet expanse of the Pennsylvania interior where the earth rises in slow, deliberate swells toward the distant Allegheny Mountains. It lies 23.0 miles south of Rostraver, PA (from Rostraver, PA: bearing 185°T), and is situated 8.4 miles west-southwest of Uniontown. Jacobs Creek carves a persistent, silver-threaded path through the local landscape, its waters pulling away the debris of the high ground and feeding the verdant, deep-rooted thickets that characterize the region. Five miles distant, the Seghis Lakes offer a stillness that mirrors the heavy, humid clouds of late summer afternoons, while the broader geography remains defined by the dense, shadowed reaches of Forbes State Forest. The air here carries a distinct, mineral weight, a reminder of the ancient, pressurized depths of the plateau that dictate the slow, rhythmic pace of the seasons.

Woodside bears the marks of a nineteenth-century industrial ambition, having grown from the necessity of extraction and the steady labor of those who turned the local timber and minerals into the building blocks of a growing nation. While the echoes of that intensive labor have softened, the economy retains a modest, self-reliant character that favors small-scale enterprise and the maintenance of the ancestral plots. Residents often find their way to Masontown Ballfield #2 to mark the passage of the weekend, a space that serves as a communal anchor in an otherwise dispersed geography. Beyond the immediate clearing, the Mile Trail provides a narrow, winding corridor for those seeking the solitude of the woods, leading eventually toward the lower, sheltered terrain of Tomcat Hollow. Woodside remains a place where the present is composed of these quiet, daily movements, grounded firmly in the persistent, unchanging geography of the Pennsylvania interior.

About This Woodside Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Woodside, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.229997, -74.85935. 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 Woodside includes the ZIP code (18224, 15478, 17370), 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 (Pennsbury 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.