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Chestnut Ridge is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] The community is 7.3 miles (11.7 km) northwest of Uniontown . Chestnut Ridge has a post office , with ZIP code 15422, which opened on August 22, 1912.
The ridge passes near the cities of: Blairsville, Derry, Latrobe, Mt. Pleasant, Connellsville, and Uniontown in Pennsylvania; and Morgantown in West Virginia. [citation needed] Beartown Wilderness can be reached via Chestnut Ridge and is located to its north. [1] The Chestnut Ridge people take their name from this region.
Chestnut Ridge is an elongate hill trending northeast-southwest in west-central Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It is partially forested with rural homes, farms, and notably apple orchards. Four small towns surround it: Schellsburg, New Paris, Fishertown, and Pleasantville. Shawnee State Park and Shawnee Lake lie immediately to the south of the ...
The Laurel Highlands is a region in southwestern Pennsylvania made up of Fayette County, Somerset County, and Westmoreland County. [1] It has a population of about 600,000 people. The region is approximately fifty-five miles southeast of Pittsburgh; the Laurel Highlands center on Laurel Hill and Chestnut Ridge of the Allegheny Mountains.
Chestnut Ridge forms the western border of the township, with the highest point reaching 2,778 feet (847 m) above sea level. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 91.8 square miles (237.7 km 2), of which 91.6 square miles (237.3 km 2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.4 km 2), or 0.19%, is water. [4]
Laurel Hill, also known as Laurel Ridge or Laurel Mountain, is a 70-mile-long (110 km) mountain that is located in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains.This ridge is flanked by Negro Mountain to its east and Chestnut Ridge to its west.
Chestnut Ridge is a broad anticline held up by the Devonian Ridgeley Member of the Old Port Formation, also made of sandstone and conglomerate. Broad Top , located north of Breezewood, is a plateau of relatively flat-lying rocks that are stratigraphically higher, and thus younger ( Mississippian and Pennsylvanian ), than most of the other rocks ...
The westernmost ridges are considered to be the Laurel Highlands and Chestnut Ridge in Pennsylvania, and Laurel Mountain and Rich Mountain in West Virginia. Big Stone Ridge marks the southern extent of the Alleghenies and is an outlier of Flat Top Mountain, with the Tug Fork river running along its western flank. [6]