Explore Cooksburg, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Cooksburg, 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 Cooksburg.
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 | Cooksburg |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Clarion County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 41.333397 |
| Longitude | -79.209485 |
| Population | 280 |
| Density | 5.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 16217 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | Clarion |
Cooksburg anchors itself in the dense, verdant expanse of Cook Forest State Park, where the crystalline waters of Toms Run carve a winding path through the ancient, towering timber. It lies 34.3 miles west of Saint Marys, PA (from Saint Marys, PA: bearing 259°T), and is situated 12.3 miles northeast of Clarion. The land here rises in slow, deliberate swells, a landscape defined by the deep shadow of virgin hemlocks and the heavy, damp scent of loam that clings to the air long after the morning mist retreats. While the distant, hazy silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains marks the horizon, the immediate topography is one of intimate, shaded glens and steep, forested slopes. The atmosphere holds a stillness rarely interrupted, save for the rhythmic, metallic chatter of creek water tumbling over river stone, creating a sanctuary where the light descends in thin, pale shafts that illuminate the moss-covered floor of the woods.
Cooksburg emerged from the legacy of the lumber industry, a history written in the height and girth of the pines that once fueled the regional economy and defined the character of the settlers who arrived to harvest them. Today, the local identity is preserved through the stewardship of the surrounding state park, shifting from the raw extraction of the past to a quiet persistence centered on seasonal recreation and the conservation of the deep, old-growth canopy. Visitors traverse the nearby Clear Creek State Forest Maple Creek Tract or venture toward the rugged terrain of Dark Hollow, finding a pace of life governed by the changing colors of the canopy rather than the frantic ticking of a clock. Even as the modern world encroaches, Cooksburg remains a place where the primary commerce is the profound, quiet observation of the landscape, an enduring testament to a time when the forest floor was the only map a traveler required.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cooksburg, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.333397, -79.209485. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Cooksburg includes the ZIP code (16217), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Clarion County (Clarion), and school district assignment.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |