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Broad Top Pennsylvania Map

Explore Broad Top, 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 Broad Top, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Broad Top, Pennsylvania Map

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

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	Broad Top
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Huntingdon County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.198
Longitude	-78.148
Population	376
Density	55.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	16621
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Huntingdon

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About Broad Top, Pennsylvania

Broad Top is a locality in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 376. The population density is 55.0 people per km². Broad Top is located at 40.1980°N, 78.1480°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16621.

Broad Top rises from the rugged topography of the Allegheny Plateau, where the earth is defined by deep, shadowed folds and the persistent, rhythmic cutting of Shoup Run. It lies 25.7 miles south-southeast of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 150°T), and is situated 16.0 miles southeast of Roaring Spring. The landscape here is characterized by a stark, geological patience, as the land pulls away from the distant, hazy blue outlines of the Allegheny Mountains to settle into a terrain of stubborn shale and dense, silent woodland. Air settles cool and heavy over the ridges, carrying the scent of damp moss and iron-rich soil, while the light at dusk fractures against the slope, turning the gray stone of the hills into something momentarily burnished and metallic. Five miles away, the vast, still expanse of Raystown Lake mirrors the changing sky, providing a quiet, deep-water anchor to a region otherwise dominated by the elevation of the plateau and the narrow, winding intimacy of Wisdom Hollow.

Broad Top remains a place where the weight of industrial memory persists in the marrow of the soil, once fueled by the extraction of coal that drove the pulse of the local economy. Though the heavy machinery and the clatter of rail have long since faded into the quietude of the present, the character of the locality retains a certain grit and self-reliance, with the Broad Top City Ball Field serving as a central point for the community to gather under the expansive, unobstructed canopy of the Pennsylvania sky. Residents move through their days with a measured pace, often traveling the Gracey Trail to reconnect with the quiet, untamed edges of the forest. Life here feels less like a narrative of progress and more like a steady, enduring presence, where the legacies of hard labor have smoothed into the quiet, everyday habits of a people who know the specific, seasonal language of their own ground.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Broad Top City Ball Field (Local Recreation) — 0.4 mi, 075° E
Broad Top City Park Acquisition (Local Recreation) — 0.4 mi, 075° E
State Game Land 067 (State Resource Management Area) — 1.6 mi, 327° NW
B & D Community Park (Local Park) — 1.7 mi, 290° W
Robertsdale Park (Local Park) — 2.0 mi, 123° SE
State Game Land 121 (State Resource Management Area) — 3.2 mi, 084° E
Raystown Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 4.4 mi, 313° NW
Trough Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 4.6 mi, 320° NW
Raystown Lake (Recreation Area) — 4.8 mi, 317° NW
Warriors Path State Park (State Park) — 5.1 mi, 266° W
Post Office and General Store (Historic Ruins) — 7.1 mi, 051° NE
Captain Phillips' Rangers Memorial (Monument) — 7.6 mi, 304° NW
Trough Creek State Park (State Park) — 7.7 mi, 009° N
Hang gliding launch site (Viewpoint) — 8.4 mi, 206° SW
Oregon Camp (Historic Ruins) — 10.2 mi, 180° S
East Broad Top Railroad (Museum) — 13.4 mi, 077° E
Rockhill Trolley Museum (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 077° E
Everett Area Honor Roll (Monument) — 17.1 mi, 221° SW
Mapleton Historical Society (Museum) — 17.3 mi, 039° NE
Triangle (Monument) — 17.3 mi, 039° NE
Three Crosses of Mapleton (Attraction) — 17.4 mi, 041° NE
The Paper Trail (Public Artwork) — 21.1 mi, 019° N
Old Duncansville Airmail field (Attraction) — 21.8 mi, 314° NW
Lincoln Caverns (Museum) — 21.8 mi, 010° N
Suzanne von Liebig Theatre (Theatre) — 22.0 mi, 018° N
Bedford Speedway Museum of Speed (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 237° SW
Serafina Art Studio (Gallery) — 22.6 mi, 237° SW
Leap-The-Dips (Theme Park) — 22.9 mi, 325° NW
Spruce Creek Rail Tunnel East Portal (Attraction) — 27.8 mi, 003° N
Martin Hill Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 32.5 mi, 217° SW

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