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Fort Fetter Pennsylvania Map

Explore Fort Fetter, 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 Fort Fetter, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Fort Fetter, Pennsylvania Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Fort Fetter, 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 Fort Fetter.

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	Fort Fetter
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Blair County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.428406
Longitude	-78.408903
Population	175
Density	866.3 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	16648
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Hollidaysburg
School District	Hollidaysburg Area School District

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About Fort Fetter, Pennsylvania

Fort Fetter is a locality in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 175. The population density is 866.3 people per km². Fort Fetter is located at 40.4284°N, 78.4089°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16648.

Fort Fetter maintains a quiet vigilance over the low-lying terrain where the Beaverdam Branch carves its steady, winding path through the earth. It lies 6.3 miles south of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 187°T), and is situated 1.1 miles west of Hollidaysburg. The landscape surrounding Fort Fetter is defined by the deliberate, rhythmic folding of the terrain, with the rugged spine of the Allegheny Mountains looming seven miles to the west like a dark, permanent horizon. To the east, the earth dips into the quiet shadows of Maple Hollow, while the surface of the Hollidaysburg Reservoir catches the pale, flat light of mid-afternoon, mirroring the gray clouds that frequently drift over the valley. At Legion Memorial Park, the grass holds the cool dampness of the morning long after the sun has climbed, offering a patch of stillness where the wind carries the faint, metallic scent of damp soil and ancient stone.

Industry and the weight of years press against the edges of Fort Fetter, shaping a culture built on the steady persistence of those who remain. The local economy has long mirrored the broader shifts of the region, transitioning from the heavy pulse of early rail and extraction to a more tempered, service-oriented pace that values the slow accumulation of community memory. Residents navigate the streets with an awareness of the deeper ground beneath their feet, where the history of the land is measured not in grand gestures, but in the enduring utility of the waterways and the way the shadows stretch long and thin across the pavement as evening approaches. Life in Fort Fetter proceeds with a grounded, unpretentious gravity, marked by the simple, repeating movements of a place that has learned to thrive in the quiet spaces between the ridges.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Legion Memorial Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 017° N
Fort Fetter Community Park Acquisition (Local Recreation) — 0.3 mi, 080° E
Golden Tiger Statue (Public Artwork) — 1.0 mi, 026° NE
Chimney Rocks Park (Local Park) — 1.0 mi, 125° SE
Chimney Rocks Park Addition (Local Recreation) — 1.1 mi, 121° SE
Old Duncansville Airmail field (Attraction) — 2.2 mi, 248° W
State Game Land 147 (State Resource Management Area) — 2.3 mi, 143° SE
Leap-The-Dips (Theme Park) — 3.0 mi, 013° N
Brush Mountain Woodlands (Conservation Area) — 3.7 mi, 040° NE
Korean War Memorial (Monument) — 3.7 mi, 065° NE
State Game Land 198 (State Resource Management Area) — 4.2 mi, 260° W
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Museum) — 6.0 mi, 004° N
Canoe Creek State Park (State Park) — 6.9 mi, 058° NE
Quarry (Historic Ruins) — 7.9 mi, 057° NE
Galliztin Tuneels Museum (Museum) — 8.4 mi, 296° NW
Wopsononock Lookout (Viewpoint) — 9.7 mi, 350° N
Cresson Railroad Observation Platform (Attraction) — 9.8 mi, 285° W
Admiral Peary Monument (Monument) — 10.2 mi, 283° W
Old In-town Altoona airstrip (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 016° N
Blue Knob State Park (State Park) — 11.5 mi, 214° SW
Keirn Family World War II Museum (Museum) — 13.1 mi, 295° NW
Trough Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 15.9 mi, 139° SE
Nathan's Divided Nature Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 17.1 mi, 288° W
Cambria County Historical Society (Museum) — 17.2 mi, 284° W
Lincoln Caverns (Museum) — 18.5 mi, 072° E
Spruce Creek Rail Tunnel West Portal (Attraction) — 19.0 mi, 051° NE
Spruce Creek Rail Tunnel East Portal (Attraction) — 19.1 mi, 052° NE
Disaster’s Edge Environmental Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 19.6 mi, 251° W
Clear Shade Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 22.3 mi, 225° SW

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