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Central City Pennsylvania Map

Explore Central City, 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 Central City, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Central City, Pennsylvania Map

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

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	Central City
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Centre County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.109617
Longitude	-78.804318
Population	998
Density	713.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	16823, 15926
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Bellefonte
School District	Shade-Central City School District

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About Central City, Pennsylvania

Central City is a locality in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 998. The population density is 713.6 people per km². Central City is located at 40.1096°N, 78.8043°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Central City is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 16823, 15926.

Central City emerges from the rugged topography of the Allegheny Plateau, where the persistent current of Moose Run carves a path through the earth. It lies 11.3 miles north-northeast of State College, PA (from State College, PA: bearing 17°T), and is situated 2.7 miles north-northwest of Bellefonte. The landscape is defined by the deep, quiet gravity of Holt Hollow, a basin that holds the morning mist long after the sun has climbed above the horizon. To the west, the distant silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains provide a jagged boundary to the sky, framing a terrain of dense thickets and steep inclines. A five-mile journey leads toward the serene expanse of Foster Joseph Sayers Lake, while the proximity of the Howard State Nursery adds a verdant, cultivated density to the surrounding woodland. The air here carries the scent of damp shale and cooling soil, a heavy, grounded atmosphere that lingers in the valleys as the daylight wanes into a deep, bruised gray.

Central City maintains an identity forged in the industry of the soil and the legacy of regional extraction, remaining a place where the pace of life adheres to the changing seasons rather than the ticking of a clock. Near the edge of the residential grid, the Bald Eagle Area Baseball Fields serve as a communal anchor, marking the spot where the rhythm of the week is punctuated by the sharp crack of a bat against a ball. The local economy persists with a quiet resilience, drawing on the character of a region that has long looked toward its own resources for sustenance. While the distant bustle of larger industrial centers echoes in the memory of the state, Central City keeps its own counsel, favoring the steady work of the day and the enduring quietude of the hills. Even the distant, arduous paths of the Sand Rock Trail seem to mirror the persistence of those who remain, finding a certain beauty in the reclamation of the land and the steady, unadorned progress of the afternoon.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Central City Recreation Park (Local Recreation) — 0.1 mi, 280° W
Shade Township Park (Local Park) — 0.4 mi, 354° N
State Game Land 228 (State Resource Management Area) — 2.0 mi, 162° S
State Game Land 093 (State Resource Management Area) — 2.5 mi, 252° W
Allegheny Front Hawk Watch (Viewpoint) — 4.5 mi, 116° SE
Flight 93 National Memorial Entrance (Museum) — 4.7 mi, 246° SW
Tower of Voices (Monument) — 4.8 mi, 242° SW
Fort Dewart (Historic Castle / Fort) — 4.8 mi, 153° SE
Somerset County Conservancy Property (Conservation Area) — 5.2 mi, 241° SW
Clear Shade Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 5.5 mi, 023° NE
United 93 Impact Site (Monument) — 6.7 mi, 233° SW
Quemahoning Reservoir (Local Park) — 8.1 mi, 287° W
Quemahoning Family Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 8.4 mi, 307° NW
Shawnee State Park (State Park) — 9.1 mi, 130° SE
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Museum) — 11.1 mi, 352° N
Salix Veterans' Memorial (Monument) — 13.5 mi, 009° N
Blue Knob State Park (State Park) — 13.8 mi, 042° NE
Roxbury Bandshell (Theatre) — 14.3 mi, 334° NW
Coal Miner's Museum and Memorial (Museum) — 15.9 mi, 008° N
Disaster’s Edge Environmental Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 15.9 mi, 008° N
Memorial Auditorium (Theatre) — 16.0 mi, 337° NW
Birdhouse (Public Artwork) — 16.1 mi, 244° SW
Serafina Art Studio (Gallery) — 17.0 mi, 111° E
Bottle Works (Arts Centre) — 17.2 mi, 338° N
Bedford Speedway Museum of Speed (Museum) — 17.2 mi, 111° E
Wagner-Ritter House (Museum) — 17.2 mi, 338° N
Lime kiln (Historic Ruins) — 18.4 mi, 107° E
Martin Hill Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 21.7 mi, 145° SE
Mt. Hope School (Historic Ruins) — 25.8 mi, 262° W
George Washington National Forest (National Forest) — 68.7 mi, 168° S · 1.1M acres

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