Klahr is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), 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 counte ...

(CDP) in

Blair County Blair County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 122,822. Its county seat is Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Holli ...

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, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.

Geography

The CDP is in southwestern Blair County, in the southern part of Greenfield Township. It sits at the head of the valley of Smoky Run, at the base of Spruce Knob, an eastern spur of

Blue Knob Blue Knob (elevation ) is a summit in the eastern United States with a broad dome that is the northernmost 3,000-footer in the Allegheny Mountains. It is the highest point in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. The mountain is the site of Blue Knob ...

, the second-highest summit in Pennsylvania. Smoky Run is a southeastward-flowing tributary of Beaverdam Creek, one of the main headwater tributaries of the Frankstown Branch of the

Juniata River The Juniata River () is a tributary of the Susquehanna River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed August 8, 2011 in central Pennsylvania. The river is ...

, part of the

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watershed. Locust Hollow Road is the main street through Klahr, leading north to Ski Gap and southeast to Cotton Town. Claysburg is by road to the east, and

Hollidaysburg Hollidaysburg is a borough in and the county seat of Blair County in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located on the Juniata River, south of Altoona and is part of the Altoona, Pennsylvania, metropolitan statistical area. In 1900 ...

is to the northeast.

Demographics

Education

It is in the Claysburg-Kimmel School District.
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References

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