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Canoe Creek Pennsylvania Map

Explore Canoe Creek, 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 Canoe Creek, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Canoe Creek, Pennsylvania Map

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

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	Canoe Creek
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Blair County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.478405
Longitude	-78.271401
Population	66
Density	208.9 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	16693
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Hollidaysburg
School District	Hollidaysburg Area School District

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About Canoe Creek, Pennsylvania

Canoe Creek is a locality in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 66. The population density is 208.9 people per km². Canoe Creek is located at 40.4784°N, 78.2714°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16693.

Canoe Creek manifests as a quiet intersection of limestone geology and the persistent, silver-threaded passage of the Frankstown Branch Juniata River. It lies 7.1 miles east-southeast of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 113°T), and is situated 7.1 miles east-northeast of Hollidaysburg. The land here holds the stillness of the interior, where the air feels heavy with the scent of damp shale and the cooling breath of the Allegheny Mountains, which loom like a dark, serrated spine against the western horizon. Within the basin, the landscape is defined by the expansive presence of Canoe Creek Lake, a body of water that mirrors the shifting violet hues of dusk and serves as the literal and metaphorical center of the local topography. To the north, the terrain slants toward the sheltered, verdant hollows of Turkey Valley, where the morning mist clings to the fields long after the sun has breached the ridgeline, painting the meadows in shades of bruised gold and slate.

Canoe Creek State Park anchors the region, preserving a rugged memory of the industrial era when iron furnaces and limestone kilns dictated the rhythm of the valley’s labor. The local economy has transitioned from those early, feverish days of extraction toward a slower, deliberate stewardship of the land, where the remnants of kiln walls stand as silent, moss-covered sentinels of a vanished trade. Life in Canoe Creek moves in cadence with the seasons, from the frantic green rebirth of spring to the quiet, brittle harvest that leaves the fields exposed and expectant. Residents here possess a deep, intuitive understanding of the watershed, acknowledging the Frankstown Branch Juniata River not merely as a waterway, but as a living ledger of the valley’s long, slow endurance.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Canoe Creek State Park (State Park) — 0.2 mi, 318° NW
Lower Trail (Private Recreation) — 0.4 mi, 151° SE
State Game Land 166 (State Resource Management Area) — 0.9 mi, 048° NE
Quarry (Historic Ruins) — 1.0 mi, 326° NW
State Game Land 147 (State Resource Management Area) — 1.1 mi, 144° SE
Riverside Park (Local Park) — 3.6 mi, 105° E
Recreation Drive Park (Local Recreation) — 3.7 mi, 098° E
Brush Mountain Woodlands (Conservation Area) — 4.0 mi, 270° W
Korean War Memorial (Monument) — 4.3 mi, 244° SW
Fort Roberdeau Historic Site & Natural Area (Local Park) — 6.5 mi, 001° N
Leap-The-Dips (Theme Park) — 6.6 mi, 265° W
Golden Tiger Statue (Public Artwork) — 7.3 mi, 249° W
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Museum) — 7.3 mi, 291° W
Old In-town Altoona airstrip (Monument) — 7.9 mi, 327° NW
Raystown Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 8.6 mi, 141° SE
Raystown Lake (Recreation Area) — 9.2 mi, 143° SE
The Lower Trail (Monument) — 9.9 mi, 052° NE
Old Duncansville Airmail field (Attraction) — 10.2 mi, 245° SW
Lincoln Caverns (Museum) — 10.6 mi, 079° E
Wopsononock Lookout (Viewpoint) — 10.8 mi, 305° NW
Spruce Creek Rail Tunnel West Portal (Attraction) — 11.3 mi, 042° NE
Spruce Creek Rail Tunnel East Portal (Attraction) — 11.4 mi, 043° NE
Trough Creek State Park (State Park) — 12.0 mi, 140° SE
Trough Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 12.1 mi, 147° SE
Tyrone Historical Society (Museum) — 13.2 mi, 007° N
Suzanne von Liebig Theatre (Theatre) — 13.5 mi, 083° E
Galliztin Tuneels Museum (Museum) — 14.7 mi, 271° W
Grace Nature Trail (Nature Reserve) — 15.3 mi, 009° N
Cresson Railroad Observation Platform (Attraction) — 16.8 mi, 267° W
Former Phillips Sand Co. (2 Plants) (Historic Ruins) — 18.1 mi, 110° E

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