Roaring Spring Historic District

Roaring Spring is a borough in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,392 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Altoona, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area

East Sharpsburg is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.The CDP is in southern Blair County, in central Taylor Township. It is mainly on the north side of Pennsylvania Route 164, 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the borough of Roaring Spring and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northwest of Martinsburg. East Sharpsburg sits in the western part of Morrisons Cove, at the southern base of Loop Mountain. Plum Creek runs through the community, flowing northwest to Halter Creek at McKee Gap, where the creeks form a water gap between Dunning Mountain and Short Mountain, exiting Morrisons Cove. Halter Creek continues to the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River, part of the Susquehanna River watershed.

McKee is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.The CDP is in southern Blair County, in the eastern part of Freedom Township and the southern corner of Blair Township. It sits on both sides of Halter Creek, where the stream exits from a water gap between Short Mountain to the north and Dunning Mountain to the south. Halter Creek is a northwestward-flowing tributary of the Frankstown Branch Juniata River, part of the Susquehanna River watershed. McKee is bordered to the west by East Freedom. Woodbury Pike, carrying Pennsylvania Routes 36 and 164, passes through the center of McKee, leading northwest 1 mile (1.6 km) to Interstate 99 at Leamersville and southeast through the Halter Creek water gap 2 miles (3 km) to Roaring Spring.

Vicksburg is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.The CDP is in southern Blair County, in the southern corner of Blair Township. It is bordered to the northwest by the Morrisons Cove Branch of the former Pennsylvania Railroad and to the southeast by Reservoir Road, which leads south 0.6 miles (1.0 km) to McKee and northeast 6 miles (10 km) to Loop. Vicksburg sits at the western base of Short Mountain, a ridge which continues south of McKee as Dunning Mountain.

East Freedom is a census-designated place (CDP) in Freedom Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located near I-99 and is approximately four miles to the west of the borough of Roaring Spring. As of the 2010 census, the population was 972 residents.

Blair Township is a township in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,792 at the 2020 census.

Ore Hill is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.The CDP is on the southern edge of Blair County, in the southern part of Taylor Township along the Bedford County line. It is 3 miles (5 km) south of the borough of Roaring Spring.

Puttstown is an unincorporated community in Hopewell Township in southwestern Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is situated along Pennsylvania Route 913, east of Saxton, near the Huntingdon-Bedford County line.

Brooks Mill is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.The CDP is in southern Blair County, in the southern part of Blair Township. Pennsylvania Route 36 passes through the center of the community, leading south 1 mile (1.6 km) to East Freedom and northeast 4 miles (6 km) to Hollidaysburg. Brooks Mill is on Halter Creek, just south of where it flows into the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River. It is part of the Susquehanna River watershed.

Halter Creek is a 9.5-mile-long (15.3 km) tributary of the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River in Bedford and Blair counties, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It originates at Bakers Summit in Bedford County east of Dunning Mountain. It flows northward through Roaring Spring, and then through McKee Gap between Dunning Mountain and Short Mountain. It flows into the Frankstown Branch south of Newry.

Leamersville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.The CDP is in southern Blair County, in the northeastern part of Freedom Township. It is bordered to the northeast by Blair Township, to the east by the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River, to the south by Pennsylvania Route 164, to the west by Dunnings Highway (old U.S. Route 220), to the south again by Brethren Lane, and to the northwest by Interstate 99/US 220. It is 1 mile (1.6 km) north of East Freedom, the same distance south of Newry, and 10 miles (16 km) south of Altoona.