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Welcome to Pleasant Hills ...

Pleasant Hills is located in Dauphin County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Pleasant Hills, you might get a feel for it by knowing that the earliest mention that we've found (so far) was on a map dated 1956.

Pleasant Hills is 500 feet [152 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

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

Communities Also Named Pleasant Hills ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Pennsylvania communities named Pleasant Hills: This one is located in Dauphin County and the other is located in Allegheny County.

Beyond Pennsylvania, there are 17 communities that are also named Pleasant Hills - they are located in Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia (2), Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee (2) and Utah.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Pleasant Hills.

Communities near Pleasant Hills ...

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

  • Harrisburg
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Elizabethtown
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Middletown
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Mechanicsburg
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Camp Hill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Palmyra
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • New Cumberland
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Steelton
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Hummelstown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Lemoyne
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Pleasant Hills ...

Looking for more information about Pleasant Hills? 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 Hills, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Pleasant Hills.

Adding Pleasant Hills to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Pleasant Hills 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 Pleasant Hills was on a map titled Road Map for Pennsylvania (from Shell Oil, 1956).

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

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties, including Dauphin, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Pleasant Hills - 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 Hills area will be assigned with one of these codes: 717 or 223. As a result, placing a call in the Pleasant Hills area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.