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Milesburg Pennsylvania Map

Explore Milesburg, 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 Milesburg, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Milesburg, Pennsylvania Map

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

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

Latitude	40.941727
Longitude	-77.785002
Population	1,093
Density	944.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	16853
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Bellefonte
School District	Bald Eagle Area School District

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About Milesburg, Pennsylvania

Milesburg is a locality in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,093. The population density is 944.1 people per km². Milesburg is located at 40.9417°N, 77.7850°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Milesburg is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 16853.

Milesburg occupies a low-lying confluence where the persistent, limestone-filtered flow of Spring Creek defines the local topography. It lies 11.0 miles north-northeast of State College, PA (from State College, PA: bearing 21°T), and is situated 2.0 miles north of Bellefonte. The landscape surrounding Milesburg remains defined by the deep, verdant incision of Holt Hollow, which channels the cooling air of the evening across the borough. Five miles to the northeast, the expansive surface of Foster Joseph Sayers Lake catches the pale, fractured light of an overcast sky, while the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains anchor the horizon to the west. Within the immediate borough, the Milesburg Borough Community Park offers a quiet expanse of green, serving as a social focus point where the shadows lengthen early against the steep inclines of the valley. Vegetation here leans toward the dense, managed growth found at the Howard State Nursery, lending a structured, arboreal character to the periphery of the settlement.

Industry and settlement in Milesburg have long been tethered to the movement of water and the necessity of regional transit, evolving from early milling operations into a quiet intersection of modern infrastructure. The economy retains the steady, pragmatic pulse of a place that serves as a thoroughfare, where the transit of goods and the routine of daily maintenance provide a firm rhythm to the hours. Residents move with a deliberate, unadorned efficiency, reflecting a culture shaped by the proximity of both industrial history and the rugged, unyielding nature of the surrounding ridges. While the more demanding terrain of the Sand Rock Trail waits six miles away for the ambitious, the local life of Milesburg finds its substance in the intersection of utilitarian history and the quiet, persistent vitality of the creek bed.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Milesburg Borough Community Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 274° W
Bald Eagle Area Baseball Fields (Local Recreation) — 0.2 mi, 342° N
Krauss Park (Local Park) — 1.4 mi, 181° S
Bellefonte Little League Field (Local Recreation) — 1.4 mi, 167° S
State Game Land 323 (State Resource Management Area) — 1.4 mi, 084° E
State Game Land 092 (State Resource Management Area) — 1.8 mi, 359° N
Bellefonte Governors' Memorial (Monument) — 2.1 mi, 175° S
Bells Across PA - "Stories of Our Railroad" (Public Artwork) — 2.1 mi, 175° S
US Air Mail Memorial (Monument) — 2.2 mi, 179° S
Abraham Lincoln Bust (Monument) — 2.2 mi, 175° S
American Philatelic Center (Museum) — 2.2 mi, 177° S
Bald Eagle State Park (State Park) — 4.9 mi, 048° NE
Foster Joseph Sayers Reservoir (Recreation Area) — 5.2 mi, 054° NE
Smokestack (Historic Ruins) — 5.2 mi, 186° S
Spring Creek Canyon (Nature Reserve) — 5.7 mi, 193° S
Tom Smith Overlook (Viewpoint) — 8.4 mi, 180° S
Deeded Square Inches (Attraction) — 9.0 mi, 182° S
Art Alliance (Arts Centre) — 9.3 mi, 191° S
Penn State All-Sports Museum (Museum) — 9.8 mi, 202° S
Penn's Cave & Wildlife Park (Attraction) — 9.9 mi, 114° SE
The Frost Entomological Museum (Museum) — 10.4 mi, 203° SW
Edwin W. Zoller Gallery (Gallery) — 10.6 mi, 203° SW
The Center for Arts & Crafts at Penn State (Arts Centre) — 10.6 mi, 202° S
Armsby Respiration Calorimeter Museum (Museum) — 10.6 mi, 203° SW
Patterson Gallery (Gallery) — 10.6 mi, 203° SW
Playhouse Theater (Theatre) — 10.7 mi, 204° SW
Black Moshannon State Park (State Park) — 13.2 mi, 256° W
Thickhead Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 13.3 mi, 174° S
Penns Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 18.3 mi, 111° E

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