Explore Duke Center, 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 Duke Center, 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 Duke Center.
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 | Duke Center |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | McKean County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 41.952286 |
| Longitude | -78.480021 |
| Population | 766 |
| Density | 55.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 16729 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | Smethport |
Duke Center emerges from the floor of Oil Valley as a quiet collection of structures anchored by the persistent, winding presence of Knapp Creek. It lies 36.5 miles north of Saint Marys, PA (from Saint Marys, PA: bearing 7°T), and is situated 9.0 miles south-southwest of Olean. The landscape here is defined by the sharp, deliberate lines of the Allegheny Plateau, where the earth rises and falls in long, muscular swells of deep green and brown. Light in the afternoon often catches the rust-colored iron of the hillsides, casting a heavy, golden clarity over the open fields and the dense thickets that edge toward the horizon. Only a short distance away, the quiet grounds of Otto Township Park offer a space where the wind moves through the tall grass with a dry, rhythmic sound, undisturbed by the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains that mark the far limit of the view.
Duke Center carries the legacy of an era when the pulse of the region was dictated by the extraction of resources from the earth, a history that still informs the way the buildings sit low against the damp, shale-heavy soil. While the economy has shifted away from the frantic pace of the early oil booms, the character of the place remains tied to the patience required to work this terrain. Days here move with the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons, marked by the changing scent of the woodsmoke and the cold, clear run of the water in Knapp Creek. Beyond the immediate reach of the center, the land stretches toward the distant reaches of the Susquehanna State Forest, leaving the inhabitants to navigate a life that is measured less by the clock and more by the enduring, grounded weight of the Pennsylvania landscape.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Duke Center, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.952286, -78.480021. 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 Duke Center includes the ZIP code (16729), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of McKean County (Smethport), 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. |