Cowansville, Pennsylvania facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Cowansville, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
Union First Presbyterian Church
Cowansville, Pennsylvania Location in Pennsylvania
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Armstrong
Township	East Franklin
Elevation	1,362 ft (415 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	16218
Area code(s)	724
GNIS feature ID	1213572

Cowansville is a small, unincorporated community located in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. An "unincorporated community" means it's a place where people live, but it doesn't have its own local government like a city or a town. Instead, it's part of a larger area called East Franklin Township.

You can find Cowansville about six miles northwest of a bigger town called Kittanning. It's located right along Pennsylvania Route 268. Cowansville has its own post office with the ZIP code 16218. This post office first opened a long time ago, on August 8, 1849.

A Look at Cowansville's Past

Cowansville has a bit of history, even if it's a small place. In an old map book from 1876, called the Atlas of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, the area was listed as "Middlesex, Cowansville P.O." This shows that the name "Cowansville" was already linked to the post office back then. Atlases are like big books of maps and information from a specific time, giving us clues about how places used to be.