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Fort Hill Pennsylvania Map

Explore Fort Hill, 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 Hill, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Fort Hill, Pennsylvania Map

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

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 Hill
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Somerset County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	39.830355
Longitude	-79.272532
Population	280
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	15540
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Somerset

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About Fort Hill, Pennsylvania

Fort Hill is a locality in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Fort Hill is located at 39.8304°N, 79.2725°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 15540.

Fort Hill anchors itself upon the rugged, elevated terrain of the Allegheny Plateau, where the landscape is defined by a persistent, quiet weight of earth and timber. It lies 35.5 miles south-southeast of Greensburg, PA (from Greensburg, PA: bearing 157°T), and is situated 18.1 miles north of Garrett. The Casselman River carves a deliberate path through the vicinity, its water moving with a dark, muted intensity that mirrors the somber gray of a late autumn sky. Beyond the immediate banks, the topography deepens into the shaded folds of Paddytown Hollow, while the broader horizon suggests the distant presence of the Allegheny Mountains, a faint, jagged ink-line against the sky. The light here has a way of thickening in the afternoon, catching the edges of the hardwoods that stretch toward the expansive greenery of Forbes State Forest, lending the air a sharp, clean scent of pine resin and damp soil that lingers long after the sun dips below the ridge.

Fort Hill carries the quiet residue of eras when the extraction of resources and the movement of rail defined the local pulse, leaving behind a rhythm that favors patience over haste. The economy remains tethered to the land and the preservation of its natural borders, evidenced by the stewardship found within the Casselman River Conservation Area, where the land is held in a state of deliberate, protected stillness. Life moves in accordance with the turning of the seasons, an existence far removed from the frantic pace of the industrial centers that once exerted such a heavy gravity on the region. Residents often look toward the quiet expanse of High Point Lake when the heat of summer settles, or find a different kind of solace in the seasonal flow of the river, a constant companion that has witnessed the slow, unadorned evolution of this place across the decades.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Casselman River Conservation Area (Conservation Area) — 0.3 mi, 243° SW
State Game Land 271 (State Resource Management Area) — 2.4 mi, 173° S
State Game Land 111 (State Resource Management Area) — 2.8 mi, 306° NW
Confluence Ball Field (Local Recreation) — 4.7 mi, 248° W
Josh Whetzel, Jr. Memorial Recreation Area (Conservation Area) — 4.9 mi, 248° W
Youghiogheny River Lake (Recreation Area) — 4.9 mi, 232° SW
Ohiopyle State Park (State Park) — 5.6 mi, 268° W
Mt Davis Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.8 mi, 123° SE
Laurel Ridge State Park (State Park) — 7.2 mi, 329° NW
CCC Monument (Monument) — 11.3 mi, 008° N
Salisbury Elk-Lick Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 11.4 mi, 118° SE
Castleman’s River Bridge (Monument) — 11.5 mi, 144° SE
Speyer Gallery (Museum) — 11.5 mi, 297° NW
Spruce Forest Artisan Village (Attraction) — 11.6 mi, 143° SE
Flatrock (Attraction) — 11.6 mi, 279° W
Paradise Overlook (Viewpoint) — 11.8 mi, 296° NW
Meyersdale Area Historical Society (Museum) — 13.4 mi, 094° E
Kentuck Knob Visitor's Center (Attraction) — 13.6 mi, 282° W
Roaring Run Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 15.0 mi, 357° N
Old Cherry Glade Meetinghouse (Attraction) — 15.2 mi, 178° S
Mt. Hope School (Historic Ruins) — 15.6 mi, 357° N
Birdhouse (Public Artwork) — 16.0 mi, 040° NE
Quebec Run Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 20.9 mi, 254° W
Powder Mill Nature Reserve (Museum) — 22.8 mi, 000° N
Flight 93 National Memorial Entrance (Museum) — 26.9 mi, 050° NE
Piercie Paugh Homestead Site (Historic Ruins) — 29.1 mi, 166° S
The Rock - Allegany County Speedway (Stadium) — 29.5 mi, 121° SE
Allegany Museum (Museum) — 29.6 mi, 114° SE
Embassy Theatre (Theatre) — 29.8 mi, 114° SE
Monongahela National Forest (National Forest) — 41.0 mi, 200° S · 922k acres

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