Scalp Level is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States.

[4] According to tradition, the town site was so named after a local property owner ordered his farmhands to "scalp them bushes level".

It is in the valley of Paint Creek, a westward-flowing tributary of the Stonycreek River, which flows north to form the Conemaugh River in the center of Johnstown, 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Scalp Level.

Pennsylvania Route 56 runs through the center of Scalp Level and leads southeast 31 miles (50 km) to Bedford.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough of Scalp Level has a total area of 0.66 square miles (1.7 km2), all land.