Clearfield County, Pennsylvania Map
Explore Clearfield County, Pennsylvania with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 44 cities and towns in Clearfield County below.
Interactive Map of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
| County | Clearfield |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County Seat | Clearfield |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 40.935885 |
| Longitude | -78.435653 |
| Cities & Towns | 44 |
| Area Codes | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
About Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
Clearfield County occupies a broad, rugged section of the Allegheny Plateau, where the landscape loses the orderly, manicured appearance of the eastern agricultural valleys and adopts a wilder, more brooding posture. The West Branch of the Susquehanna River carves a serpentine path through the terrain, its waters often running tea-colored from the tannins of hemlock and oak roots. Here, the elevation rises into high, forested ridges that seem to hold the clouds close to the earth, particularly during the damp, slate-gray mornings of late autumn. The air carries a sharp, metallic clarity, a reminder that the land is defined by deep, sandstone-laden soil and expansive woodlands that have reclaimed much of the ground once stripped by the reach of industrial ambition.
Clearfield County emerged in the early nineteenth century as a frontier territory, officially organized to manage the vast timber tracts that drew men toward the interior of the state. Settlers pushed into the dense, dark woods, seeking to harness the river as a highway for the white pine that dominated the canopy. The county seat was established at a central point along the river, chosen for its position at the confluence of key transport routes and its proximity to the water’s edge. Even now, the town square maintains a reserved, deliberate geometry, anchored by a brick courthouse whose clock tower serves as a silent arbiter of the passing hours, watching over streets where the shadows grow long and purple well before the sun actually dips behind the western rim of the hills.
Industry here has long been a cycle of extraction and recovery, moving from the felling of ancient timber to the mining of coal that lies beneath the shale. The character of the people reflects this history; there is a certain stoic reserve in the way residents navigate the seasonal shifts, from the humid, insect-heavy heat of mid-summer to the biting, crystalline cold that turns the local creeks to jagged glass. Landmarks often take the form of abandoned tipples or overgrown logging roads that vanish into the thicket, sites that possess a quiet, melancholy beauty as nature slowly softens the harsh edges of human labor. Life moves in a steady, unadorned cadence, defined by the woodsmoke that hangs in the air on winter evenings and the way the orange light of dusk illuminates the rough, gray bark of the maples lining the backroads.
Cities and Towns in Clearfield County
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About This Clearfield County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania alongside links to detailed street maps for 44 cities and towns. The county seat is Clearfield. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
