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Blandburg Pennsylvania Map

Explore Blandburg, 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 Blandburg, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Blandburg, Pennsylvania Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Blandburg, 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 Blandburg.

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	Blandburg
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Cambria County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.687008
Longitude	-78.410851
Population	348
Density	277.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	16619
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Ebensburg
School District	Glendale School District

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About Blandburg, Pennsylvania

Blandburg is a locality in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 348. The population density is 277.6 people per km². Blandburg is located at 40.6870°N, 78.4109°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16619.

Blandburg emerges from the rugged topography of the Allegheny Plateau where the persistent, narrow channel of Powell Run carves a path through the earth. It lies 11.7 miles north of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 356°T), and is situated 9.1 miles west of Tyrone. The air here holds a crisp, persistent weight, carrying the scent of damp shale and the deep, resinous exhale of the surrounding woodland that defines State Game Land 158. To the west, the dark, serrated silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains marks the horizon, standing as a silent sentinel over the dense thickets and steep inclines. A quiet stillness settles over the landscape when the sun dips low, casting long, bruised shadows across the uneven terrain, while the nearby Sandy Run Reservoir remains a glassy, obsidian mirror reflecting the changing moods of the Pennsylvania sky.

Blandburg retains the austere, industrious character of a place forged by the extraction of subterranean wealth and the slow, rhythmic labor of the plateau. The local economy, once tethered to the pulse of coal and the transport of raw materials, now drifts through a quieter era, marked by the steady endurance of those who remain close to the land. The proximity to Mulligan Hollow provides a natural, sheltered depth to the region, creating a feeling of seclusion that persists despite the changing seasons. Life in Blandburg follows the measured pace of the seasons, where the primary concerns are the cycle of the forest and the maintenance of the roads that thread through the hills, binding the quiet dwellings to the wider, sprawling expanse of the Commonwealth.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State Game Land 158 (State Resource Management Area) — 0.4 mi, 143° SE
State Game Land 108 (State Resource Management Area) — 0.5 mi, 189° S
Wopsononock Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.7 mi, 016° N
Prince Gallitzin State Park (State Park) — 3.6 mi, 237° SW
Mountz Memorial Park Addition (Local Recreation) — 4.2 mi, 007° N
Mountz Memorial Park (Local Park) — 4.6 mi, 352° N
Bells Gap Railroad Trail (Local Recreation) — 7.2 mi, 147° SE
Coalport Area Coal Museum (Museum) — 7.7 mi, 304° NW
Old In-town Altoona airstrip (Monument) — 8.4 mi, 159° S
Wopsononock Lookout (Viewpoint) — 8.4 mi, 191° S
Tyrone Historical Society (Museum) — 9.1 mi, 098° E
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 9.4 mi, 170° S
Grace Nature Trail (Nature Reserve) — 9.6 mi, 086° E
Great Auk (Public Artwork) — 10.0 mi, 179° S
Ashville Monumnet (Monument) — 11.4 mi, 219° SW
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Museum) — 11.9 mi, 178° S
Canoe Creek State Park (State Park) — 14.8 mi, 153° SE
Leap-The-Dips (Theme Park) — 15.0 mi, 177° S
Quarry (Historic Ruins) — 15.1 mi, 153° SE
Old Spruce Creek Station (Monument) — 15.1 mi, 110° E
Galliztin Tuneels Museum (Museum) — 15.9 mi, 208° SW
Spruce Creek Rail Tunnel West Portal (Attraction) — 16.0 mi, 112° E
Spruce Creek Rail Tunnel East Portal (Attraction) — 16.2 mi, 112° E
Keirn Family World War II Museum (Museum) — 17.1 mi, 223° SW
Cresson Railroad Observation Platform (Attraction) — 18.0 mi, 211° SW
Old Duncansville Airmail field (Attraction) — 18.8 mi, 186° S
Nathan's Divided Nature Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 20.5 mi, 232° SW
Trough Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 27.9 mi, 149° SE
Quehanna Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 35.0 mi, 013° N
Allegheny National Forest (National Forest) — 51.4 mi, 339° N · 514k acres

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