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Welcome to Mount Pleasant Mills ...

Mount Pleasant Mills is located in Snyder County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Mount Pleasant Mills, you might consider that their post office opened in 1818.

A typical abbreviation for Mount Pleasant Mills: Mt. Pleasant Mls. (or less commonly used: Mt. Pleasant Mlls.)

Mount Pleasant Mills is 560 feet [171 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Mount Pleasant Mills lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Mount Pleasant Mills: 570 & 272<3>

The ZIP code for Mount Pleasant Mills: 17853<4>

Communities near Mount Pleasant Mills ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Mount Pleasant Mills.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Mount Pleasant Mills. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Mount Pleasant Mills.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Mount Pleasant Mills. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Mount Pleasant Mills.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Mount Pleasant Mills. See our Newspapers Page for Mount Pleasant Mills.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Mount Pleasant Mills ...

Looking for more information about Mount Pleasant Mills? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

In addition to the Tourism page for Mount Pleasant Mills, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Mount Pleasant Mills.

Adding Mount Pleasant Mills to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Mount Pleasant Mills in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Mount Pleasant Mills was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Mount Pleasant Mills post office opened in 1818.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Mount Pleasant Mills.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties, including Snyder, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Mount Pleasant Mills - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 570 code has been Overlayed with the 272 area code. New phone numbers in the Mount Pleasant Mills area will be assigned with one of these codes: 570 or 272. As a result, placing a call in the Mount Pleasant Mills area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>ZIP Codes have been created by the United States Postal Service (USPS) as a way of grouping addresses to make delivery more efficient. The boundaries of the ZIP Code can be changed, re-assigned, eliminated or overlapped with other ZIP Codes. So keep in mind that any given ZIP Code is only 'loosely' associated with a community (such as Mount Pleasant Mills). When looking for a ZIP Code, whether Mount Pleasant Mills or elsewhere, it's always best to check the website of the United States Postal Service (USPS).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/