Westmont sits on heights rising up to 700 feet (210 m) above the Stonycreek and Conemaugh River valleys in the center of Johnstown.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough of Westmont has a total area of 2.4 square miles (6.1 km2), all land.

[4] Before the Johnstown Flood of 1889, the Yoder Hill area consisted of nothing more than a few farms, accessible by only a few steep, muddy roads.

The company commissioned the famous landscape architect, Charles Miller, to lay out the grid for the settlement of "Tiptop", later renamed Westmont.

As such, it was also above the smoke, noise, and stench of the city, and attracted the well-to-do of the town, eager to escape what (in many cases) their own factories had wrought.

With the problem of transportation solved, the new settlement began to grow, and it was incorporated as the Borough of Westmont on June 13, 1892.

In 1938 the Johnstown Traction Company began to operate bus service to Westmont via buses that rode up and down the Inclined Plane.

Captain Harry Griffith Cramer Jr. grew up at 321 Luzerne Street, a house which still stands today.

He graduated from West Point in 1946, earned a Silver Star for valor in Korea, and commanded the first team of US Special Forces advisers to deploy to Vietnam.

Today Westmont, even though considerably larger than that envisioned by the Cambria Iron Company officials, still retains many of the characteristics that attracted residents here in the first place.

Perhaps the town's standout feature is the allée of American elm trees along Luzerne Street, the last cathedral-arched boulevard left in the United States.