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Cowansville Pennsylvania Map

Explore Cowansville, 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 Cowansville, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Cowansville, Pennsylvania Map

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

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	Cowansville
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Armstrong County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.887842
Longitude	-79.58838
Population	480
Density	18.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	16218
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Kittanning

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About Cowansville, Pennsylvania

Cowansville is a locality in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 18.0 people per km². Cowansville is located at 40.8878°N, 79.5884°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16218.

Cowansville emerges from the quiet intersection of rural byways, where the land rises in long, deliberate swells of pasture and dense woodland. It lies 16.1 miles east of Butler, PA (from Butler, PA: bearing 83°T), and is situated 6.0 miles northwest of Kittanning. Sunlight filters through the canopy in thin, pale shafts, illuminating the heavy clay soil that defines the terrain. A mile away, the quiet flow of Long Run cuts a narrow, winding path through the underbrush, its waters reflecting the muted colors of the changing seasons. To the east, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains anchors the horizon, providing a permanent backdrop to the fields that stretch toward the horizon. The proximity of State Game Land 259 ensures that the surrounding woods remain a sanctuary for deer and wild turkey, maintaining a landscape that feels largely undisturbed by the frantic pace of modern development.

Cowansville retains the steady, unassuming character of a place built upon the labor of the soil and the quiet endurance of its residents. The local economy has long leaned into the rhythms of agriculture and the maintenance of the land, with barn roofs and silo peaks marking the skyline more prominently than any industrial spire. Residents often look toward the broader expanse of the region for commerce, yet the daily life in Cowansville stays tethered to the patterns of the harvest and the maintenance of local homesteads. History here is kept in the quiet upkeep of weathered fences and the enduring legacy of families who have worked these acres across generations. Even as the seasons turn and the shadows grow long over the hollows, the place maintains a resolute stillness, grounded in the hard-won familiarity of the Pennsylvania interior.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State Game Land 259 (State Resource Management Area) — 2.2 mi, 281° W
Sugar Township Community Park (Local Park) — 2.8 mi, 321° NW
Minteer Limestone Spring (Conservation Area) — 3.1 mi, 273° W
Minteer w/ Limestone Spring (Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 274° W
State Game Land 105 (State Resource Management Area) — 3.6 mi, 010° N
West Hills Community Park (Local Park) — 3.9 mi, 156° SE
Armstrong Trail (Private Recreation) — 4.6 mi, 032° NE
St. Patrick's Church (Monument) — 5.7 mi, 320° NW
American Flag (Public Artwork) — 6.1 mi, 219° SW
Firemen Memorial (Monument) — 6.2 mi, 146° SE
Cornplanter's Defeat (Registered Battlefield) — 6.2 mi, 347° N
Kittanning or Attiqué Indian Town (Monument) — 6.2 mi, 146° SE
McCandless (Local Recreation) — 7.0 mi, 008° N
Bradys Bend Iron Furnaces Historical Site (Historic Ruins) — 7.9 mi, 346° N
Armstrong County OHV Park Acquisition (Local Recreation) — 8.1 mi, 072° E
Traister Petroglyphs (Historic Ruins) — 10.1 mi, 029° NE
Cooper Hall (Saxonburg Museum) (Museum) — 14.8 mi, 231° SW
Saxonburg Museum (Museum) — 14.9 mi, 231° SW
Clarion, Pennsylvania Wild And Scenic River Study Area (Wild & Scenic River) — 16.5 mi, 002° N · 12k acres
Succop Theater (Theatre) — 17.4 mi, 257° W
Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts (Arts Centre) — 18.1 mi, 345° N
Audubon Society (Museum) — 19.5 mi, 247° SW
Moraine State Park (State Park) — 20.8 mi, 284° W
American Rabbit Breeders Association (Museum) — 21.0 mi, 006° N
Allegheny, Pennsylvania Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 21.5 mi, 342° N · 35k acres
Large Scale Systems Museum (LSSM) (Museum) — 24.1 mi, 203° SW
GQT Cinemas 18 (Cinema) — 24.3 mi, 207° SW
University Gallery (Gallery) — 24.8 mi, 026° NE
Belltower (Attraction) — 24.8 mi, 026° NE
Community park (Attraction) — 24.9 mi, 155° SE

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