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Hostetter Pennsylvania Map

Explore Hostetter, 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 Hostetter, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Hostetter, Pennsylvania Map

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

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

Latitude	40.266182
Longitude	-79.39837
Population	732
Density	388.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	15638
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Greensburg
School District	Greater Latrobe School District

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About Hostetter, Pennsylvania

Hostetter is a locality in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 732. The population density is 388.8 people per km². Hostetter is located at 40.2662°N, 79.3984°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 15638.

Hostetter occupies a quiet expanse of the Pennsylvania landscape where the earth holds the memory of deep-vein industry beneath a thin layer of topsoil. It lies 7.8 miles east-southeast of Greensburg, PA (from Greensburg, PA: bearing 108°T), and is situated 3.9 miles south-southwest of Latrobe. The horizon remains dominated by the distant, hazy blue of the Allegheny Mountains, while the local terrain itself is defined by the steady, unpretentious movement of Ninemile Run as it carves through the lower terrain. Only two miles to the west, the water of Saint Vincent Lake catches the flat, gray light of late autumn afternoons, reflecting the skeletal frames of dormant trees. The St. Xavier Property Acquisition provides a buffer of unmanicured green that softens the edges of the local grid, offering a stillness that seems to settle over the ground like a heavy, cooling blanket as the sun retreats behind the rise of Possum Hollow.

Hostetter emerged from the nineteenth-century push to extract the wealth buried in the regional strata, its development tethered to the iron and coal trades that once dictated the pulse of the surrounding countryside. While the heavy machinery of the past has long since gone quiet, the structural bones of the locality remain, marked by utilitarian architecture and the legacy of families who built their lives around the rhythmic demands of the furnace and the rail. The economy here has shifted away from its soot-stained origins toward a slower, more localized existence, yet the weight of that history persists in the way the buildings lean against one another and the way the wind carries the faint scent of damp earth and cooling cinders. Life in Hostetter proceeds with a deliberate gravity, anchored by the remnants of an industrial era that shaped the very geography of the neighborhood, leaving behind a place that feels less like a destination and more like a long, steady exhale.

Nearby Outdoor Places

St. Xavier Property Acquisition (Private Recreation) — 1.0 mi, 336° NW
Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve (Conservation Area) — 1.2 mi, 355° N
Youngstown Ballfield (Local Park) — 1.6 mi, 060° NE
Latrobe Foundation (Conservation Area) — 2.7 mi, 014° N
Thomas Street Ballfield (Private Recreation) — 3.0 mi, 038° NE
Loyalhanna Gorge (Local Park) — 3.1 mi, 057° NE
Latrobe War Memorial (Monument) — 3.4 mi, 013° N
Site of Strickler's Drug Store, Home of the Banana Split (Monument) — 3.6 mi, 011° N
Second Latrobe Playground (Local Recreation) — 3.6 mi, 022° N
First Ward Playground (Local Recreation) — 3.7 mi, 008° N
Vietnam Veterans of Westmoreland Co. Memorial (Monument) — 5.4 mi, 311° NW
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 5.6 mi, 315° NW
Tipping Bucket (Attraction) — 6.1 mi, 095° E
Soak Zone (Attraction) — 6.1 mi, 095° E
Wild Mouse (Attraction) — 6.2 mi, 094° E
Olde Idlewild (Attraction) — 6.3 mi, 093° E
Loyalhanna Lake (Recreation Area) — 6.6 mi, 356° N
Keystone State Park (State Park) — 6.6 mi, 357° N
Westmoreland Performing Arts (Arts Centre) — 8.1 mi, 288° W
Powder Mill Nature Reserve (Museum) — 9.9 mi, 138° SE
Linn Run State Park (State Park) — 10.6 mi, 126° SE
Wolf Rocks (Viewpoint) — 13.8 mi, 130° SE
Mt. Hope School (Historic Ruins) — 15.6 mi, 158° S
Big Mac Museum (Museum) — 15.9 mi, 284° W
Coke Ovens (Historic Ruins) — 18.6 mi, 289° W
Phoenix Big Cinemas North Versailles Stadium 18 (Cinema) — 21.7 mi, 290° W
Spaceballs The Unauthorized Museum and Gift Shop (Museum) — 23.0 mi, 287° W
Nittany Lion Shrine (Public Artwork) — 23.2 mi, 284° W
Church Arcade (Theme Park) — 24.7 mi, 287° W

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