Explore Madera, 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 Madera, 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 Madera.
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 | Madera |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Clearfield County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.828393 |
| Longitude | -78.43502 |
| Population | 507 |
| Density | 178.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 16661 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | Clearfield |
| School District | Moshannon Valley School District |
Madera holds the quiet, terrestrial gravity of the high plateau, defined by the steady, unhurried course of the Alexander Run as it carves through the local topography. It lies 21.5 miles north of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 354°T), and is situated 13.7 miles south of Clearfield. The landscape surrounding Madera is one of deep-rooted woodlands and disciplined ridges, where the air at dusk carries a cool, sharp clarity that settles over the earth like a heavy woolen blanket. Beyond the immediate terrain, the distant silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains frames the horizon, acting as a silent, jagged witness to the changing seasons that wash over the valley floor. In the quiet reaches of the day, one might walk through the Madera School Park, a space that serves as a humble anchor for the neighborhood, its grounds reflecting the simple, earnest character of the land itself.
History here is written in the stubborn endurance of the soil and the legacy of an economy once fueled by the extraction of what lay deep beneath the surface. While the industry that carved the local identity has shifted, the rhythm of life in Madera remains tethered to the slow, deliberate pace of a place that values its own internal consistency over the frantic momentum of the outside world. Five miles away, the quiet depth of Dotts Hollow provides a natural counterpoint to the more settled, human-scaled zones, while the presence of Curwensville Lake nine miles distant offers a persistent reminder of the water that shapes the wider basin. Life in Madera persists in the small, repetitive acts of a day, where the light hits the timbered slopes with a gold-leaf intensity, illuminating the resilience of a landscape that has long since settled into its own quiet, unpretentious permanence.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Madera, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.828393, -78.43502. 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 Madera includes the ZIP code (16661), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Clearfield County (Clearfield), and school district assignment (Moshannon Valley 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. |