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Cross Keys Pennsylvania Map

Explore Cross Keys, 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 Cross Keys, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Cross Keys, Pennsylvania Map

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

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	Cross Keys
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Juniata County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.445719
Longitude	-78.429329
Population	435
Density	638.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	18902, 17301, 17021, 16635
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Mifflintown
School District	Hollidaysburg Area School District

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About Cross Keys, Pennsylvania

Cross Keys is a locality in Juniata County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 435. The population density is 638.6 people per km². Cross Keys is located at 40.4457°N, 78.4293°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 18902, 17301, 17021.

Cross Keys emerges from the quiet intersection of geography where the Lick Run carves a modest, persistent path through the earth, marking the land with its rhythmic flow. It lies 29.1 miles north of Chambersburg, PA (from Chambersburg, PA: bearing 356°T), and is situated 9.6 miles east of Mount Union. Beyond the immediate banks of the creek, the terrain rises into the folded complexity of the ridge-and-valley province, where the distant, hazy blue outlines of the Appalachian Mountains frame the horizon. To the west, the deep, shadowed creases of Hog Hollow define the local topography, while the dense, timbered expanse of Tuscarora State Forest provides a permanent, verdant backdrop to the landscape. Light here has a particular quality, filtering through the canopy of the Tuscarora State Forest, which reaches to within a mile of the locality, casting long, slanted shadows across the fields as the sun dips behind the western ridges.

Cross Keys retains the quiet, deliberate character of a region built upon the steady labor of the inland interior, where the economy has long been tethered to the harvest of timber and the slow, seasonal pulse of the surrounding soil. The presence of the Mount Union Reservoir, resting four miles away, anchors the local water table, offering a stillness that contrasts with the occasional passage of hikers navigating the nearby Cross Keys Path. Daily life moves with an unadorned precision, reflecting a heritage defined by the resilience of those who cleared these woods and worked the land long before the modern era. Here, the transition from the rugged, forested slopes to the modest, functional architecture of the locality suggests a history of focused, practical settlement, leaving the inhabitants to find their own measure of satisfaction in the persistent, unchanging rhythm of the seasons.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Duncansville Memorial Park (Local Park) — 1.1 mi, 174° S
Legion Memorial Park (Local Park) — 1.3 mi, 133° SE
Eldorado Ballfield (Local Recreation) — 1.4 mi, 014° N
Golden Tiger Statue (Public Artwork) — 1.5 mi, 102° E
Old Duncansville Airmail field (Attraction) — 2.2 mi, 204° SW
Leap-The-Dips (Theme Park) — 2.4 mi, 045° NE
State Game Land 198 (State Resource Management Area) — 3.1 mi, 283° W
Kittanning Reservoir (Local Recreation) — 3.1 mi, 329° NW
Brush Mountain Woodlands (Conservation Area) — 3.7 mi, 055° NE
State Game Land 147 (State Resource Management Area) — 4.0 mi, 141° SE
Korean War Memorial (Monument) — 4.5 mi, 085° E
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Museum) — 5.0 mi, 017° N
Galliztin Tuneels Museum (Museum) — 6.9 mi, 292° W
Canoe Creek State Park (State Park) — 7.3 mi, 071° E
Quarry (Historic Ruins) — 8.3 mi, 068° E
Wopsononock Lookout (Viewpoint) — 8.4 mi, 356° N
Cresson Railroad Observation Platform (Attraction) — 8.5 mi, 279° W
Admiral Peary Monument (Monument) — 9.0 mi, 277° W
Old In-town Altoona airstrip (Monument) — 9.7 mi, 024° NE
Keirn Family World War II Museum (Museum) — 11.6 mi, 291° W
Blue Knob State Park (State Park) — 12.0 mi, 207° SW
Nathan's Divided Nature Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 15.7 mi, 285° W
Cambria County Historical Society (Museum) — 15.8 mi, 281° W
Trough Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 17.5 mi, 139° SE
Tyrone Historical Society (Museum) — 18.3 mi, 033° NE
Disaster’s Edge Environmental Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 19.0 mi, 247° SW
Spruce Creek Rail Tunnel West Portal (Attraction) — 19.1 mi, 056° NE
Spruce Creek Rail Tunnel East Portal (Attraction) — 19.2 mi, 056° NE
Clear Shade Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 22.4 mi, 221° SW

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