McKee Pennsylvania Map

About McKee, Pennsylvania

McKee is a locality in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 262. The population density is 266.9 people per km². McKee is located at 40.3605°N, 78.4211°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 17068, 16637.

McKee traces the winding path of Halter Creek, where the water cuts a persistent, silver thread through the low-lying basin floor. It lies 11.0 miles south of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 186°T), and is situated 4.9 miles south-southwest of Hollidaysburg. The land around McKee rises into the muted, folded terrain of the Allegheny Plateau, where the horizon is defined by the shadowed silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains looming eleven miles to the east. Sunlight here often settles in a heavy, golden haze over the fields, catching the moisture that rises from the damp earth and the nearby State Game Land 147. When the air turns crisp, the landscape feels vast and quiet, held in the stillness of a region where the geology dictates the pace of the day and the drainage of every rain-swollen ditch.

McKee grew from the necessity of the land, shaped by the cycles of resource extraction and the steady, grinding movement of regional industry that once powered these valleys. The economy remains tethered to the physical character of the terrain, reflecting a history of labor that mirrors the labor found throughout the wider ridge-and-valley province. Residents look toward the Hollidaysburg Reservoir as a primary marker of the local geography, a quiet expanse that stabilizes the surrounding moisture. Life in McKee moves with the deliberate, unadorned cadence of people who know the specific texture of their soil and the isolation of the hollows, existing in a space where the weight of the past is measured not in monuments, but in the enduring, utilitarian rhythm of the daily commute.

About This McKee Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of McKee, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.360453, -78.421066. 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 McKee includes the ZIP code (17068, 16637), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Blair County (Hollidaysburg), and school district assignment (Spring Cove 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.