Eagle Creek Pennsylvania Map

About Eagle Creek, Pennsylvania

Eagle Creek is a locality in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 132. The population density is 82.5 people per km². Eagle Creek is located at 40.8953°N, 77.8921°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16844.

Eagle Creek emerges from the dense, verdant folds of the Allegheny Plateau where the persistent, clear waters of Dicks Run carve a narrow, winding path through the limestone bedrock. It lies 7.2 miles north-northwest of State College, PA (from State College, PA: bearing 347°T), and is situated 6.3 miles north-northeast of Park Forest Village. The landscape is defined by the sharp, rhythmic rise of the earth as it reaches toward the distant silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains, creating a terrain of steep slopes and deep, shadowed hollows like the nearby Bush Hollow. Sunlight here often arrives late and leaves early, catching the tops of the hardwoods before sliding down the limestone faces to illuminate the mossy stones in the creek bed. Seven miles to the north, the expansive surface of Snow Shoe Reservoir reflects the shifting Pennsylvania sky, while the surrounding expanse of Moshannon State Forest provides a permanent, dark-green backdrop to the eastern horizon.

Economic life in Eagle Creek has long hummed to the quiet, industrial cadence of a region once defined by timber and the extraction of earth’s deep-buried resources. While the heavy machinery of earlier eras has largely receded, the local character remains forged in the resilience of those who labor in the trades and small-scale agriculture that occupy the fertile patches between the ridges. The community finds its common center at the Unionville Playground, a space where the pace of the afternoon slows to the sound of local children and the distant, rhythmic crunch of tires on gravel roads. For those seeking the solitude of the woods, the Rattlesnake Trail offers a rugged, winding path through the timber, providing a rare perspective on the quiet, enduring beauty of a place that remains stubbornly, authentically itself.

About This Eagle Creek Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Eagle Creek, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.895266, -77.892112. 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 Eagle Creek includes the ZIP code (16844), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Centre County (Bellefonte), and school district assignment (Bald Eagle Area School District).

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.