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Cotton Town Pennsylvania Map

Explore Cotton Town, 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 Cotton Town, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Cotton Town, Pennsylvania Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Cotton Town, 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 Cotton Town.

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

Latitude	40.279521
Longitude	-78.480849
Population	22
Density	283.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	16625
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Hollidaysburg
School District	Claysburg-Kimmel School District

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About Cotton Town, Pennsylvania

Cotton Town is a locality in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 22. The population density is 283.1 people per km². Cotton Town is located at 40.2795°N, 78.4808°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16625.

Cotton Town occupies a quiet stretch of land where the Smoky Run carves a persistent, shallow path through the earth, marking the boundary between the dense canopy and the open clearing. It lies 17.1 miles south-southwest of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 195°T), and is situated 6.1 miles southwest of Roaring Spring. The air here holds the cool, damp weight of the Allegheny Mountains, which rise in a distant, jagged silhouette against the western sky, anchoring the horizon in a permanent, hazy blue. To the north, the terrain dips into the quiet seclusion of Wolf Hollow, while the nearby expanse of State Game Land 041 offers a sprawling, untamed buffer of thicket and deer trails that define the town's outer limits. When the late afternoon light hits the surface of the Smoky Run, it turns the water into a ribbon of hammered silver, reflecting the stillness of the surrounding woods as the shadows lengthen across the valley floor.

Cotton Town emerged from the ambitions of early inland industry, its name a lingering echo of the mills that once relied on the steady flow of local waterways to drive their machinery. Today, the economy has shifted away from that singular focus, yet the brick facades of the older buildings remain, their mortar weathering under the seasonal shifts of the Pennsylvania climate. Life in Cotton Town moves with a deliberate, measured pace, influenced by the proximity of the rugged landscape and the quietude of the surrounding rural tracts. Residents often look toward Portage Reservoir for recreation, finding a sense of scale in its calm waters that contrasts with the constant, murmuring movement of the nearby creeks. This is a place where the history of labor is still visible in the sturdy architecture, holding firm against the inevitable drift of time.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State Game Land 041 (State Resource Management Area) — 1.6 mi, 113° SE
Kimmel Township Community Park (Local Park) — 1.9 mi, 221° SW
Claysburg Area Community Park (Local Park) — 2.1 mi, 047° NE
Blue Knob State Park (State Park) — 2.6 mi, 276° W
Pavia (Viewpoint) — 4.3 mi, 270° W
State Game Land 147 (State Resource Management Area) — 5.0 mi, 040° NE
Lost Cox Children Monument (Monument) — 6.6 mi, 280° W
Old Duncansville Airmail field (Attraction) — 9.6 mi, 011° N
Captain Phillips' Rangers Memorial (Monument) — 11.4 mi, 097° E
Golden Tiger Statue (Public Artwork) — 11.9 mi, 021° N
Raystown Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 12.1 mi, 111° E
Raystown Lake (Recreation Area) — 13.1 mi, 105° E
Clear Shade Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 13.2 mi, 246° SW
Korean War Memorial (Monument) — 13.9 mi, 031° NE
Leap-The-Dips (Theme Park) — 13.9 mi, 019° N
Cresson Railroad Observation Platform (Attraction) — 14.0 mi, 336° NW
Kittanning Reservoir (Local Recreation) — 14.2 mi, 004° N
Trough Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 14.4 mi, 096° E
Galliztin Tuneels Museum (Museum) — 14.5 mi, 345° N
Disaster’s Edge Environmental Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 15.4 mi, 285° W
Coal Miner's Museum and Memorial (Museum) — 15.4 mi, 285° W
Shawnee State Park (State Park) — 16.7 mi, 205° SW
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Museum) — 16.8 mi, 014° N
Lime kiln (Historic Ruins) — 17.0 mi, 178° S
Keirn Family World War II Museum (Museum) — 17.7 mi, 333° NW
Quarry (Historic Ruins) — 18.0 mi, 035° NE
Serafina Art Studio (Gallery) — 18.0 mi, 184° S
Bedford Speedway Museum of Speed (Museum) — 18.0 mi, 183° S
Nathan's Divided Nature Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 19.9 mi, 321° NW
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 57.5 mi, 115° SE · 110k acres

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