Cedar Crest Pennsylvania Map

About Cedar Crest, Pennsylvania

Cedar Crest is a locality in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 111. The population density is 265.8 people per km². Cedar Crest is located at 40.3966°N, 77.8858°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 17066.

Cedar Crest emerges from the rolling hills with a quiet dignity, its landscape a gentle undulation of fertile farmland meeting the hushed embrace of mature woodlands. It lies 27.4 miles south of State College, PA (from State College, PA: bearing 183°T), and is situated 8.9 miles south-east of Huntingdon. The air here, especially as the sun begins its slow descent, carries a particular sweetness, tinged with the scent of pine and damp earth, a perfume that clings to the very texture of the land. Fields, stitched with the resilient green of late-season crops, stretch towards horizons softened by the haze of distance, punctuated by the stoic silhouettes of barns and the occasional glint of sunlight on a distant silo. The terrain itself, a series of shallow valleys and rounded crests, suggests a history of patient cultivation, a place where human hands have worked in concert with the land's inherent generosity, fostering a sense of enduring, unhurried peace. The history of Cedar Crest is a quiet chronicle of agricultural endeavor and the enduring spirit of its inhabitants, a lineage tracing back to those who first cleared these lands for sustenance. The local economy, though diversified over time, still bears the deep imprint of farming, with the fertile soil yielding not just corn and soybeans, but also a quiet pride in the bounty of the earth. While the larger industries of the wider region may have shifted, Cedar Crest maintains a grounded character, its economic pulse beating in time with the seasons and the needs of its people. This is a place where community bonds are forged not in grand pronouncements, but in the shared rhythm of daily life, in the quiet nod between neighbors and the collective tending of a landscape that has, in turn, tended to them.

About This Cedar Crest Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cedar Crest, Pennsylvania — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 40.3966, -77.8858. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Cedar Crest and Mifflin County.

Detailed location data for Cedar Crest includes the ZIP code (17066), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Mifflin County (Lewistown), and school district assignment (Mount Union Area School District). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Cedar Crest is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.