Gray CDP (Blair County), PA

Gray is an unincorporated census-designated place in Snyder Township, northern Blair County, Pennsylvania. It sits on the southeastern side of the Little Juniata River valley, between Interstate 99 and Norfolk Southern's Pittsburgh Line. Thomastown Road connects the community to Tyrone, about a mile to the northeast, while the surrounding ridges and rail corridor make it easy to place on a map. The river valley keeps the settlement narrow, with the road, tracks, and slopes doing most of the orientation. The 16686 Tyrone postal address is part of the local shorthand.

Gray was first listed as a CDP before the 2020 census, when 42 people were counted. It belongs to Tyrone Area School District, another reminder that small places here are tied to the nearest town for services and school routes. The local scoop is that Gray is a compact river-valley community squeezed between a major highway and a major railroad, with Tyrone just up the road and the Little Juniata setting the landscape.