Timblin, PA

Timblin is a borough in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States. The 2020 census counted 147 residents. The community which would later be named as "Timblin" had its genesis in the arrival, during the early 1800s, of several pioneer settlers in Perry Township: James McClelland, Benjamin Ions, David Hamilton. Elijah Ekis, Michael Lantz and William Smith then arrived in 1815. A newcomer can read Timblin through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Timblin comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The Armstrong County line forms the western border of the borough. Timblin is in the valley of Pine Run, a west-flowing tributary of Mahoning Creek, part of the Allegheny River watershed.