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Manns Choice Pennsylvania Map

Explore Manns Choice, 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 Manns Choice, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Manns Choice, Pennsylvania Map

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

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	Manns Choice
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Bedford County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.002581
Longitude	-78.59113
Population	316
Density	243.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	15550
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Bedford
School District	Bedford Area School District

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About Manns Choice, Pennsylvania

Manns Choice is a locality in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 316. The population density is 243.5 people per km². Manns Choice is located at 40.0026°N, 78.5911°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Manns Choice is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 15550.

Manns Choice occupies a quiet intersection of topography where the earth seems to exhale into the low-lying shadows of Milligan Cove. It lies 28.4 miles southeast of Johnstown, PA (from Johnstown, PA: bearing 142°T), and is situated 4.7 miles west-southwest of Bedford. Buffalo Run threads its way through the landscape, a persistent, narrow vein of water that carves a path through the limestone and shale, dictating the orientation of the roads and the placement of the older, weathered frame houses. A mile away, the stillness of Shawnee Lake mirrors the heavy, humid air of late summer afternoons, while the distant, hazy silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains provides a jagged, blue-tinted border to the western horizon. The light here has a peculiar quality, thickening as it filters through the dense canopy of the nearby Buchanan State Forest, casting long, bruised purples across the fields as the sun dips behind the ridges.

Manns Choice retains the residual silence of a settlement built on the slow, methodical extraction of resources and the rhythms of agrarian labor. While the clamor of industrial history remains a distant echo, the local economy reflects a transition toward stewardship and the preservation of the surrounding wilderness, exemplified by the proximity of Shawnee State Park. The influence of the earlier, industrious generations persists in the sturdy foundations of the architecture, though the pace of life has settled into a meditative, almost rhythmic pulse dictated by the changing seasons. Residents navigate the landscape with an intimate knowledge of the terrain, often venturing toward the Fair View Trail to find a vantage point over the basin, where the complexity of the valley floor reveals itself in the overlapping contours of the earth.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Shawnee State Park (State Park) — 1.4 mi, 322° NW
State Game Land 048 (State Resource Management Area) — 1.7 mi, 181° S
Bedford Springs (Local Park) — 3.7 mi, 109° E
The Green (Local Park) — 4.4 mi, 076° E
Serafina Art Studio (Gallery) — 4.7 mi, 076° E
Berger Tract (Conservation Area) — 4.7 mi, 125° SE
Bedford Speedway Museum of Speed (Museum) — 4.9 mi, 077° E
Bedford High School Track and Field (Local Recreation) — 5.1 mi, 080° E
Lime kiln (Historic Ruins) — 6.7 mi, 071° E
Buchanan State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 8.6 mi, 161° S
Allegheny Front Hawk Watch (Viewpoint) — 9.0 mi, 307° NW
Fort Dewart (Historic Castle / Fort) — 9.6 mi, 289° W
Sweet Root Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.3 mi, 161° S
Martin Hill Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 10.4 mi, 173° S
Everett Area Honor Roll (Monument) — 12.2 mi, 087° E
Clear Shade Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 13.6 mi, 333° NW
Pine Ridge Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 14.8 mi, 155° SE
Tower of Voices (Monument) — 16.4 mi, 288° W
Flight 93 National Memorial Entrance (Museum) — 16.5 mi, 289° W
United 93 Impact Site (Monument) — 16.9 mi, 281° W
Blue Knob State Park (State Park) — 17.0 mi, 003° N
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 325° NW
Oregon Camp (Historic Ruins) — 23.6 mi, 082° E
Coal Miner's Museum and Memorial (Museum) — 24.9 mi, 339° N
Disaster’s Edge Environmental Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 24.9 mi, 339° N
Birdhouse (Public Artwork) — 25.8 mi, 271° W
Allegany Museum (Museum) — 25.8 mi, 201° S
The Three Stars Arts (Gallery) — 25.9 mi, 201° S
Embassy Theatre (Theatre) — 25.9 mi, 201° S
Greenway Avenue Stadium (Stadium) — 26.2 mi, 199° S

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