Atlantic Pennsylvania Map

About Atlantic, Pennsylvania

Atlantic is a locality in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 113. The population density is 277.9 people per km². Atlantic is located at 41.5053°N, 80.3406°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 15474, 16651, 15671.

Atlantic marks its presence where the land rises in quiet, broken shelves above the steady pulse of Georges Creek. It lies 27.3 miles south-southwest of Rostraver, PA (from Rostraver, PA: bearing 192°T), and is situated 8.0 miles north-northwest of Cheat Lake. The terrain here is defined by the heavy, damp weight of the Allegheny Plateau, where the earth holds the cold long after the sun has retreated behind the distant silhouettes of the Allegheny Mountains. To the east, the woods of Coopers Rock State Forest offer a dense, tangled barrier of hardwoods, while the immediate basin of Tomcat Hollow cradles a stillness that seems to thicken as the light turns copper in the late afternoon. Rainwater and snowmelt find their way through the dark soil, feeding the local drainage patterns that carve narrow, steep-sided channels into the bedrock of this interior landscape.

Atlantic persists as a place built upon the hard labor of the interior, where the echoes of extractive industries linger in the rusted iron and the silent, overgrown spurs of old rail lines. The local economy has shifted from the heavy extraction of the previous century toward a modest, dispersed character defined by small-scale land use and the quiet maintenance of rural life. Residents find a communal anchor at Mon View Park, a space that serves as a clearinghouse for the day’s fatigue and the slow, deliberate pace of the region. Even when the sky turns the color of slate and the air grows thin, there is a certain endurance in the way the local life adheres to the geography, looking toward the distant surface of Cheat Lake for the only expanse of water that breaks the monotony of the hills.

About This Atlantic Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Atlantic, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.505256, -80.340579. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Atlantic includes the ZIP code (15474, 16651, 15671), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Fayette County (Uniontown), and school district assignment (Conneaut School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.