Jackson Center Pennsylvania Map

About Jackson Center, Pennsylvania

Jackson Center is a locality in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 194. The population density is 65.8 people per km². Jackson Center is located at 41.2731°N, 80.1397°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Jackson Center is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 16936, 16133.

Jackson Center emerges from the high, broad expanse of the Allegheny Plateau, where the horizon holds the flat, stubborn persistence of the Pennsylvania interior. It lies 13.7 miles southwest of Elmira, NY (from Elmira, NY: bearing 221°T), and is situated 17.7 miles south-southwest of Horseheads. The land here is defined by a slow, rhythmic subsidence into the earth, where the drainage of Bear Creek carves a shallow, persistent path through the limestone-rich soil only a mile from the center of the grid. While the distant Appalachian Mountains appear as a mere ink-stain on the eastern sky, the immediate landscape is one of hard-packed clay and seasonal grasses that turn a brittle, pale straw color under the relentless autumn sun. To the north, the terrain dips into the quiet moisture of Barber Hollow, a natural basin that traps the morning fog, holding it against the fence lines and the rusted iron of abandoned agricultural implements until the heat of the day finally burns it away.

Jackson Center remains a place of quiet industry, defined by the steady, unadorned work of those who manage the surrounding fields and the small-scale commerce that keeps the local economy turning. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a long-standing rural settlement, where the collective memory of the region is tied less to grand monuments and more to the maintenance of the roads and the quiet, verdant expanse of Howser Park. Even the proximity of Tioga Reservoir provides a sense of deep, still water that anchors the surrounding woodlands, offering a respite from the mechanical hum of the nearby highways. In the evenings, the light catches the metallic sheen of silo roofs and the weathered siding of barns, casting long, sharp shadows that emphasize the solitude of a landscape that has been worked by hand for generations, leaving the people of Jackson Center to measure time by the harvest and the slow, inevitable shift of the seasons.

About This Jackson Center Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Jackson Center, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.273129, -80.13968. 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 Jackson Center includes the ZIP code (16936, 16133), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Tioga County (Wellsboro), and school district assignment (Lakeview School District).

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.