Pleasant Hills

Geography

Pleasant Hills is located in southwestern Harford County at . It is bordered to the southwest by Baltimore County, with the county border following the Little Gunpowder Falls. Maryland Route 147 (Harford Road) forms the northwestern edge of the CDP. U.S. Route 1 (Bel Air Road) runs through the community, leading northeast to Bel Air, the Harford County seat, and southwest to Baltimore. Maryland Route 152 crosses US 1 in Pleasant Hills, leading northwest to Fallston and southeast to Interstate 95 near Joppatowne. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Pleasant Hills CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.22%, are water.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  27,050
• Carolina Wren

  Thryothorus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  22,208
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  21,619
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  20,726
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  20,098
• Carolina Chickadee

  Poecile carolinensis (Audubon, 1834) · Aves
  19,458
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  18,714
• Red-bellied Woodpecker

  Melanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  17,716

Most recent

• M 2.5 — 2025-10-27
  4 km E of Riverside, Maryland
• M 2.6 — 2021-06-25
  2 km SE of Woodlawn, Maryland
• M 2.81 — 2019-09-15
  5 km ESE of East Berlin, Pennsylvania
• M 4.1 — 2017-11-30
  3 km NNE of Little Creek, Delaware
• M 2.64 — 2015-01-25
  4 km ESE of Downingtown, Pennsylvania
• M 3.6 — 2010-07-16
  5 km NNW of Barnesville, Maryland