Oakland CDP (Lawrence County), PA

Oakland is a Lawrence County census-designated place in the southeastern corner of Union Township, pressed against New Castle. The CDP covers less than a square mile on a hill above the Shenango River, with the river flowing south toward the Beaver and Ohio watershed. Its 2020 population was 1,437, and the place's 724 area-code ties sit inside the broader New Castle map. Oakland's boundary is small, but its setting is easy to read: Union Township to the north, the county seat to the south and east, and the river below.

The local streets are mostly residential, with Oakland functioning as a named place inside a larger township and city network. The Shenango overlook gives the CDP its clearest geographic marker, while the road connections into New Castle handle the practical side of daily life. Oakland keeps its own name even as the surrounding urban geography does most of the work. The result is a small Pennsylvania place whose geography is defined by a township line, a river valley, and the city at its edge.