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Welcome to Pleasant Hall ...

Pleasant Hall is located in Franklin County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Pleasant Hall, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1851.

Pleasant Hall is 700 feet [213 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Pleasant Hall: 717 & 223<3>

The ZIP code for Pleasant Hall: 17246<4>

Communities near Pleasant Hall ...

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

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 Pleasant Hall. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Pleasant Hall.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Pleasant Hall. 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 Pleasant Hall.

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Pleasant Hall ...

Looking for more information about Pleasant Hall? 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.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Pleasant Hall, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Pleasant Hall.

Adding Pleasant Hall to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Pleasant Hall 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 for Pleasant Hall was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<8>

From that list, the Pleasant Hall post office opened in 1851.

We also found Pleasant Hall in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Pleasant Hall.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties, including Franklin, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Pleasant Hall - 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 717 code has been Overlayed with the 223 area code. New phone numbers in the Pleasant Hall area will be assigned with one of these codes: 717 or 223. As a result, placing a call in the Pleasant Hall 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 Pleasant Hall). When looking for a ZIP Code, whether Pleasant Hall 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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<7>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<8>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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