Pillow, PA

Pillow is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The 2020 census counted 291 residents. Pillow is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. Pillow was founded in 1818 in the eastern part of Mifflin Township, Dauphin County by John Snyder, a land developer from Mercer County, as "Snydertown". A newcomer can read Pillow through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Pillow comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The borough was incorporated as "Uniontown" on April 20, 1864, becoming a separate municipality from the township. Pillow is bounded on the west, north, and east by Mahantango Creek, a westward-flowing tributary of the Susquehanna River, and on the south by Mahantango Mountain. Pennsylvania Route 225 passes through the center of the borough, leading northeast 23 miles to Shamokin and south 7 miles to Elizabethville.