East Freedom Pennsylvania Map

About East Freedom, Pennsylvania

East Freedom is a locality in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 552. The population density is 430.6 people per km². East Freedom is located at 40.3576°N, 78.4297°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16637.

East Freedom occupies a singular corridor where the land rises in deliberate, limestone-ribbed layers toward the distant, hazy spine of the Allegheny Mountains. It lies 11.3 miles south of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 189°T), and is situated 5.3 miles south-southwest of Hollidaysburg. South Dry Run cuts a persistent path through the low-lying terrain, its waters channeling the seasonal runoff that drains from the surrounding slopes. The air here holds a crisp, mineral clarity, particularly as the low afternoon sun catches the shale outcrops and turns the gray stones into sheets of burnished silver. To the north, the landscape tightens into the quietude of Maple Hollow, while the proximity of State Game Land 147 ensures that the encroaching brush and hardwoods maintain a wild, unmanaged boundary against the encroaching suburban sprawl.

East Freedom maintains a steady, utilitarian pulse, rooted in a history of transit and the extraction of the earth’s raw materials. Where the smoke of earlier iron and limestone industries once colored the sky, modern life now favors the quiet hum of commerce and the steady passage of vehicles along the valley floor. The Hollidaysburg Reservoir exerts a subtle, cooling influence on the local climate, acting as a fixed point of stillness against the rapid movement of the highway. Residents observe the change of seasons through the shifting colors of the hardwoods, a cycle that remains the true measure of time in a place where the economy has transitioned from the heavy labor of the furnace to the smaller, more dispersed work of the modern roadside.

About This East Freedom Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of East Freedom, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.357574, -78.429736. 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 East Freedom includes the ZIP code (16637), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Blair County (Hollidaysburg), and school district assignment (Spring Cove 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.