Carson Valley is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

(CDP) in Blair County,

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The CDP is in western Blair County, in the east part of Allegheny Township. It is named for the valley in which it sits, drained to the east by Spencer Run coming down from the

Allegheny Front The Allegheny Front is the major southeast- or east-facing escarpment in the Allegheny Mountains in southern Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern West Virginia, and western Virginia, USA. The Allegheny Front forms the boundary between the Rid ...

. Carson Valley Road leads east to

Pennsylvania Route 764 Pennsylvania Route 764 (PA 764) is a north–south state highway in Blair County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The route is one of many major north–south thoroughfares in Altoona. South of the city near Duncansville, a suburb of A ...

at Cross Keys and west up the valley to the foot of the Allegheny Front escarpment.

U.S. Route 22 U.S. Route 22 (US 22) is a west–east route and is one of the original United States highways of 1926, running from Cincinnati, Ohio, at US 27, US 42, US 127, and US 52 to Newark, New Jersey, at U.S. Route 1/9 in the Newark Airport Intercha ...

, a four-lane freeway, runs south and west of Carson Valley, with the closest access to the east from PA 764. Altoona is north of the CDP, and

Hollidaysburg Hollidaysburg is a borough (Pennsylvania), borough in and the county seat of Blair County, Pennsylvania, Blair County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is located on the Juniata River, south of Altoona, Pennsylvania, Altoona and is part of ...

is to the southeast. Cresson is to the west via Route 22.

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Census-designated places in Blair County, Pennsylvania Census-designated places in Pennsylvania {{BlairCountyPA-geo-stub