Explore Garden View, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Garden View, 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 Garden View.
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 | Garden View |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Mifflin County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 41.256525 |
| Longitude | -77.048135 |
| Population | 2,478 |
| Density | 884.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 17063, 17701 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | Lewistown |
| School District | Williamsport Area School District |
Garden View emerges from the earth as a series of low, shadowed ridges that catch the pale, amber light of the waning afternoon. It lies 15.2 miles east-southeast of State College, PA (from State College, PA: bearing 112°T), and is situated 7.7 miles north of Lewistown. The Laurel Creek carves a persistent path through the limestone-heavy soil, its waters mirroring the slate-gray sky as it flows past the quiet expanse of Milroy Park. To the east, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains anchors the horizon, while the terrain closer at hand dips into the quiet, mist-heavy hollow of Potlicker Flats. Beyond the immediate reach of the settlement, the dense, ancient canopy of Rothrock State Forest begins its climb, cooling the air that drifts down into the valley. As dusk arrives, the atmosphere thickens with the scent of damp loam and cooling stone, a stillness that seems to suspend the very pulse of the land in a brief, meditative silence.
Garden View maintains a steady, deliberate pace, grounded in a history of small-scale agriculture and the modest industry that once followed the flow of the Laurel Creek. Residents frequently traverse the Kratzer Trail, a route that winds toward the tranquil waters of Laurel Creek Reservoir, providing a persistent connection to the surrounding topography. The local economy persists through a blend of heritage trades and modern service, moving with the measured cadence of those who have long worked the cycle of the seasons. There is a distinct, understated character in the way the local architecture keeps to the scale of the landscape, favoring brick and weathered timber that seem to absorb the seasons rather than defy them. Life here remains tied to the rhythms of the valley, where the presence of the nearby wilderness ensures that the modern world feels like a distant, secondary concern to the immediate, tactile reality of the soil and the stream.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Garden View, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.256525, -77.048135. 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 Garden View includes the ZIP code (17063, 17701), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Mifflin County (Lewistown), and school district assignment (Williamsport Area School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |