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East Salem Pennsylvania Map

Explore East Salem, 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 East Salem, Pennsylvania

How to Use This East Salem, Pennsylvania Map

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

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

Latitude	40.608969
Longitude	-77.238042
Population	169
Density	243.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	17059
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Mifflintown
School District	Juniata County School District

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About East Salem, Pennsylvania

East Salem is a locality in Juniata County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 169. The population density is 243.5 people per km². East Salem is located at 40.6090°N, 77.2380°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 17059.

East Salem commands a quiet stretch of land where the Delaware Creek carves a persistent, silver path through the deepening soil of the basin. It lies 28.3 miles north of Carlisle, PA (from Carlisle, PA: bearing 355°T), and is situated 17.5 miles east of Lewistown. The earth here carries the weight of the interior, buffered from the coast by a hundred miles of folded terrain that culminates in the distant, hazy blue of the Appalachian Mountains. To the west, the topography rises into the protected grasses of Westfall Ridge Prairie, where the wind moves in long, visible currents through the stalks, indifferent to the human grid below. East Salem sits at the edge of Kurtz Valley, a low-lying basin where the air holds the scent of damp loam and the evening light takes on a bruised, metallic quality that clings to the late-harvest fields.

Industry in East Salem once relied on the steady pulse of the creek, which powered the early mills that provided the first structural beams for the region’s growth. While the heavy, coal-fired furnaces of the broader district have long since cooled, the economy remains rooted in the deliberate, slow-turning cycles of local agriculture and small-scale manufacturing. Residents often travel nine miles toward the Pa-638 Reservoir, a body of water that serves as the quiet center for weekend stillness, reflecting the stark, skeletal silhouettes of the surrounding hardwoods. Life in East Salem follows the rhythm of the seasons, marked by the changing color of the ridge line and the heavy, unhurried passage of trucks moving grain through the valley floor, maintaining a character that is as durable and unadorned as the limestone foundations of the older buildings.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Westfall Ridge Prairie (Conservation Area) — 1.2 mi, 309° NW
Lost Creek Community Park (Local Park) — 2.7 mi, 314° NW
Sieber Property Acquisition (Local Recreation) — 2.8 mi, 307° NW
Haldemen Park (Local Park) — 2.8 mi, 177° S
State Game Land 171 (State Resource Management Area) — 3.6 mi, 164° S
James C. Nelson Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 4.8 mi, 174° S
Bald Eagle State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 5.4 mi, 005° N
Owl Hollow School (Historic Ruins) — 8.8 mi, 134° SE
Little Buffalo State Park (State Park) — 10.4 mi, 166° S
Perry County Council of the Arts (Arts Centre) — 10.7 mi, 148° SE
Miller School (Historic Ruins) — 10.8 mi, 136° SE
Civil War Monument (Monument) — 13.3 mi, 168° S
Snyder Middleswarth Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.8 mi, 348° N
Treaster Havice Vista (Viewpoint) — 14.3 mi, 332° NW
Reeds Gap State Park (State Park) — 14.3 mi, 303° NW
Millersburg Historical Society (Museum) — 15.4 mi, 108° E
Penns Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 16.3 mi, 349° N
Thunderbird (Theatre) — 16.8 mi, 357° N
Embassy Theater (Theatre) — 17.7 mi, 267° W
Miller Cinemas 6 (Cinema) — 17.7 mi, 267° W
Lewistown Viscose WWII Memorial (Monument) — 17.8 mi, 267° W
Dellville Covered Bridge (Attraction) — 18.1 mi, 159° S
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 19.0 mi, 145° SE · 110k acres
Lore Degenstein Art Gallery (Gallery) — 23.0 mi, 055° NE
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 23.3 mi, 328° NW
AMC CLASSIC Selinsgrove 12 (Cinema) — 25.2 mi, 054° NE
Beer Tap (Attraction) — 26.9 mi, 295° NW
Cave Hill Nature Center (Nature Reserve) — 26.9 mi, 174° S
Linn Conservancy (Nature Reserve) — 27.0 mi, 040° NE
Penn's Cave & Wildlife Park (Attraction) — 27.2 mi, 314° NW

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