Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Marklesburg, PA

Marklesburg is a tiny borough in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania - not to be confused with Markleysburg in Fayette County.

Marklesburg had exactly 200 residents at the 2020 census, continuing more than a century of small, stable populations that peaked at just 279 back in 1890.

At the 2000 census, Marklesburg's 216 residents lived in 89 households.

The Marklesburg Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 and preserves 61 buildings, most of them built between about 1845 and 1870.

Marklesburg sits near the western shore of Raystown Lake, Pennsylvania's largest lake entirely within the state, just uphill from Aitch, a village that was flooded when the lake was created.

The borough stretches along PA Route 26, known locally as Bedford Road, through the Woodcock Valley between Tussey Mountain and Terrace Mountain in Pennsylvania's Ridge and Valley region.

Marklesburg developed as a 19th-century service and commercial center for local farms and industry; the James Creek post office began serving the area in 1840, and the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad reached the valley in 1855 with a stop called Marklesburg Station.

The whole borough covers only about one square mile at an elevation of about 890 feet, roughly 12 miles southwest of the borough of Huntingdon.