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Blanchard Pennsylvania Map

Explore Blanchard, Pennsylvania, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Blanchard, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Blanchard, Pennsylvania Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Blanchard, Pennsylvania. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Pennsylvania or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Blanchard.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Blanchard
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Allegheny County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	41.067002
Longitude	-77.606049
Population	597
Density	163.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	16826, 16841, 15084
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Pittsburgh
School District	Keystone Central School District

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About Blanchard, Pennsylvania

Blanchard is a locality in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 597. The population density is 163.4 people per km². Blanchard is located at 41.0670°N, 77.6060°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 16826, 16841, 15084.

Blanchard occupies a quiet expanse of the Pennsylvania interior, defined by the steady, unpretentious geography of the Appalachian plateau. It lies 6.9 miles north-northwest of New Kensington, PA (from New Kensington, PA: bearing 331°T), and is situated 8.1 miles north-northwest of Lower Burrell. The landscape surrounding Blanchard is characterized by a series of low-rising ridges and the deep, silent verdure of the woodlands, where the air holds a cool, damp weight even in the height of summer. A mile away, the waters of Bull Creek trace a narrow, persistent path through the earth, cutting through the limestone terrain to feed the local water table. Three miles to the north, the surface of Greisinger Pond acts as a dark, polished mirror for the shifting clouds, offering a brief stillness in a region otherwise defined by the dense, tangled growth of the forest.

Blanchard persists as a place of deliberate endurance, where the historical echoes of extractive labor have slowly faded into the quietude of modern rural life. The local economy maintains a modest, steady pulse, largely removed from the frantic pace of the larger industrial centers that once defined the state’s mid-century prosperity. Residents maintain a life governed by the seasonal turn of the land, finding utility in the proximity of Blanchard, a LP, which provides a necessary buffer of managed wilderness against the encroachment of the wider world. Far off on the eastern horizon, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains serves as a permanent, immovable boundary, grounding the daily routines of the people who call this particular intersection of the ridge-and-valley province their own.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Beach Creek Baseball Field (Local Recreation) — 1.0 mi, 044° NE
Beach Creek Community Park (Local Recreation) — 1.0 mi, 047° NE
Foster Joseph Sayers Reservoir (Recreation Area) — 1.3 mi, 197° S
Bald Eagle State Park (State Park) — 1.4 mi, 173° S
State Game Land 255 (State Resource Management Area) — 1.8 mi, 133° SE
Sproul State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 3.6 mi, 339° N
Howard Borough Park (Local Park) — 4.2 mi, 217° SW
Northeast Fishery Center (Nature Reserve) — 5.8 mi, 140° SE
Mill Hall Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 6.9 mi, 065° NE
Bucktail State Park (State Park) — 8.2 mi, 016° N
Bucktail State Park Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.2 mi, 016° N
Lock Haven University Memorial (Monument) — 9.0 mi, 054° NE
Bald Eagle Statue (Public Artwork) — 9.1 mi, 056° NE
Clinton County Civil War Monument (Monument) — 9.5 mi, 060° NE
Riansares Mountain Vista (Viewpoint) — 12.0 mi, 094° E
Penn's Cave & Wildlife Park (Attraction) — 12.7 mi, 181° S
Mt Logan Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 12.9 mi, 068° E
American Philatelic Center (Museum) — 14.3 mi, 220° SW
Russell P. Letterman Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 14.8 mi, 322° NW
Burns Run Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 15.6 mi, 306° NW
Smokestack (Historic Ruins) — 17.0 mi, 216° SW
Spring Creek Canyon (Nature Reserve) — 17.8 mi, 217° SW
Railroad Bed Historical Marker (Historic Ruins) — 18.8 mi, 148° SE
Deeded Square Inches (Attraction) — 20.1 mi, 209° SW
Art Alliance (Arts Centre) — 20.9 mi, 212° SW
Beer Tap (Attraction) — 21.0 mi, 194° S
Penn State All-Sports Museum (Museum) — 22.0 mi, 216° SW
M60A3 Tank (Attraction) — 22.1 mi, 207° SW
The Frost Entomological Museum (Museum) — 22.6 mi, 216° SW
The Center for Arts & Crafts at Penn State (Arts Centre) — 22.8 mi, 216° SW

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