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Buffalo Mills Pennsylvania Map

Explore Buffalo Mills, 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 Buffalo Mills, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Buffalo Mills, Pennsylvania Map

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

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	Buffalo Mills
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Bedford County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.840064
Longitude	-79.643381
Population	280
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	16262, 15534
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Bedford

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About Buffalo Mills, Pennsylvania

Buffalo Mills is a locality in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Buffalo Mills is located at 40.8401°N, 79.6434°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 16262, 15534.

Buffalo Mills emerges from the landscape as a quiet collection of structures held firmly within the embrace of the Pennsylvania ridge-and-valley terrain. It lies 30.8 miles south-southeast of Johnstown, PA (from Johnstown, PA: bearing 152°T), and is situated 9.5 miles southwest of Bedford. Buffalo Run carves a narrow, persistent path through the earth only a mile from the center, its waters feeding the cool, damp air that settles into the lower elevations as evening light turns the sky the color of bruised slate. Beyond the immediate clearings, the land rises toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains, which trace a jagged charcoal line against the horizon. Four miles to the west, Lake Francis remains a still, reflective presence in the landscape, while the dense, shadowed canopy of Buchanan State Forest stands nine miles away, acting as a green bulwark against the encroachment of the wider world.

History in Buffalo Mills persists in the heavy stone foundations and the weathered grain of timber barns that have outlasted the original intentions of their builders. The economy here has long been tethered to the slow, deliberate work of the land, with the nearby State Game Land 048 offering a vast, managed expanse that defines the rhythm of the seasons for those who hunt or wander the quiet brush. Residents often traverse the local terrain with a familiarity born of long winters, occasionally venturing toward Orchard Hollow to find shelter from the winds that scour the higher ridges. Three miles of distance define that basin, a place where the stillness is so profound it seems to swallow the sound of a footfall, leaving only the memory of the mills that once turned by the current of the water.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Worthington Park (Local Park) — 0.8 mi, 113° SE
West Franklin Athletic Field (Local Recreation) — 0.9 mi, 100° E
West Franklin Ballfield (Local Park) — 1.4 mi, 043° NE
American Flag (Public Artwork) — 1.8 mi, 214° SW
Minteer w/ Limestone Spring (Conservation Area) — 3.4 mi, 351° N
State Game Land 304 (State Resource Management Area) — 3.4 mi, 311° NW
Minteer Limestone Spring (Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 354° N
State Game Land 259 (State Resource Management Area) — 3.6 mi, 009° N
Wooden Cross Cemetery (Monument) — 4.0 mi, 240° SW
Armstrong Trail (Private Recreation) — 6.0 mi, 093° E
Kittanning (Monument) — 6.5 mi, 107° E
Firemen Memorial (Monument) — 6.6 mi, 106° E
Butler-Freeport Community Trail (Local Recreation) — 7.7 mi, 242° SW
Cornplanter's Defeat (Registered Battlefield) — 9.5 mi, 009° N
Cooper Hall (Saxonburg Museum) (Museum) — 10.6 mi, 235° SW
Saxonburg Museum (Museum) — 10.6 mi, 235° SW
Bradys Bend Iron Furnaces Historical Site (Historic Ruins) — 11.0 mi, 005° N
Succop Theater (Theatre) — 14.1 mi, 267° W
Traister Petroglyphs (Historic Ruins) — 14.5 mi, 033° NE
Audubon Society (Museum) — 15.7 mi, 254° W
Clarion, Pennsylvania Wild And Scenic River Study Area (Wild & Scenic River) — 18.9 mi, 355° N · 12k acres
Moraine State Park (State Park) — 19.3 mi, 296° NW
Large Scale Systems Museum (LSSM) (Museum) — 20.0 mi, 199° S
GQT Cinemas 18 (Cinema) — 20.0 mi, 204° SW
Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts (Arts Centre) — 20.8 mi, 355° N
Marshall Auditorium (Theatre) — 21.5 mi, 200° S
In Tune With The Arts Studios (Arts Centre) — 22.0 mi, 226° SW
Barking Slopes Overlook (Viewpoint) — 22.7 mi, 200° S
Depreciation Lands Museum (Museum) — 23.3 mi, 224° SW
Allegheny, Pennsylvania Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 24.0 mi, 351° N · 35k acres

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