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Friesville Pennsylvania Map

Explore Friesville, 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 Friesville, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Friesville, Pennsylvania Map

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

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

Latitude	40.294798
Longitude	-78.462237
Population	195
Density	492.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	16625
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Hollidaysburg
School District	Claysburg-Kimmel School District

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About Friesville, Pennsylvania

Friesville is a locality in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 195. The population density is 492.1 people per km². Friesville is located at 40.2948°N, 78.4622°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16625.

Friesville emerges from the earth as a quiet gathering of structures defined by the persistent, rhythmic flow of South Poplar Run, which carves a modest path through the local topography. It lies 15.9 miles south-southwest of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 193°T), and is situated 9.9 miles south-southwest of Hollidaysburg. The landscape here is defined by the steady inclination of the land toward the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Allegheny Mountains, which frame the horizon with a permanent, solemn weight. Beyond the immediate clearings, the terrain yields to the deep, shadowed creases of the earth near Wolf Hollow, where the light at dusk thickens and turns the color of bruised plums against the treeline. Residents often walk the short distance to the Claysburg Area Community Park, where the air holds the scent of damp soil and the seasonal transition of leaves, grounding the pace of daily existence in the cyclical nature of the plateau.

Friesville maintains a character forged by the long-standing industry of the region, where the economy has shifted from the labor of the earth to the quiet persistence of small-scale enterprise and local trade. The history of the area is not written in grand monuments but in the sturdy masonry and the weathered siding of houses that have endured the winters, reflecting a tradition of self-reliance common to the ridge-and-valley corridor. While the industrial pulse of the larger state occasionally echoes in the distance, the life of Friesville remains anchored to the immediate horizon, occasionally looking toward the recreation offered by the waters of the Hollidaysburg Reservoir or the quiet, dense canopy of Babcock State Forest. It is a place where the passage of time is measured not by external clockwork, but by the way the sun catches the frost on the fields in early spring or the particular, stillness that settles over the valley once the day’s work is done.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Claysburg Area Community Park (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 055° NE
State Game Land 041 (State Resource Management Area) — 0.8 mi, 116° SE
State Game Land 147 (State Resource Management Area) — 3.6 mi, 038° NE
Shawnee Park (Local Park) — 3.6 mi, 050° NE
Blue Knob State Park (State Park) — 3.7 mi, 258° W
Pavia (Viewpoint) — 5.4 mi, 259° W
Lost Cox Children Monument (Monument) — 7.5 mi, 270° W
Old Duncansville Airmail field (Attraction) — 8.4 mi, 006° N
Captain Phillips' Rangers Memorial (Monument) — 10.6 mi, 103° E
Golden Tiger Statue (Public Artwork) — 10.6 mi, 018° N
Raystown Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 11.6 mi, 118° SE
Warriors Path State Park (State Park) — 11.9 mi, 122° SE
Korean War Memorial (Monument) — 12.5 mi, 030° NE
Raystown Lake (Recreation Area) — 12.5 mi, 111° E
Leap-The-Dips (Theme Park) — 12.6 mi, 016° N
Kittanning Reservoir (Local Recreation) — 13.1 mi, 001° N
Cresson Railroad Observation Platform (Attraction) — 13.5 mi, 330° NW
Trough Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 13.6 mi, 101° E
Galliztin Tuneels Museum (Museum) — 13.8 mi, 340° N
Clear Shade Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 14.5 mi, 244° SW
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Museum) — 15.6 mi, 012° N
Disaster’s Edge Environmental Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 16.1 mi, 281° W
Coal Miner's Museum and Memorial (Museum) — 16.2 mi, 281° W
Quarry (Historic Ruins) — 16.5 mi, 035° NE
Keirn Family World War II Museum (Museum) — 17.3 mi, 328° NW
Lime kiln (Historic Ruins) — 18.1 mi, 181° S
Bedford Speedway Museum of Speed (Museum) — 19.2 mi, 186° S
Serafina Art Studio (Gallery) — 19.2 mi, 187° S
Nathan's Divided Nature Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 19.7 mi, 317° NW
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 57.1 mi, 116° SE · 110k acres

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