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Ore Hill Pennsylvania Map

Explore Ore Hill, 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 Ore Hill, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Ore Hill, Pennsylvania Map

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

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	Ore Hill
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Blair County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.293688
Longitude	-78.400847
Population	106
Density	341.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	16673
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Hollidaysburg
School District	Spring Cove School District

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About Ore Hill, Pennsylvania

Ore Hill is a locality in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 106. The population density is 341.1 people per km². Ore Hill is located at 40.2937°N, 78.4008°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16673.

Ore Hill reveals itself as a landscape of rusted earth and deliberate silence, where the iron-rich soil colors the ground in shades of deep ochre and burnt umber. It lies 15.5 miles south of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 181°T), and is situated 9.3 miles south of Hollidaysburg. The terrain rises and falls with a rhythmic, muscular quality, defined by the proximity of State Game Land 041, which keeps the encroaching woodland wild and unmanicured against the domestic edges of the property lines. Cabbage Creek carves a thin, reflective line through the valley floor, its waters moving with a quiet, persistent gravity toward the lower elevations. Far to the west, the jagged, blue-tinted silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains anchors the horizon, providing a permanent, stoic backdrop to the changing light that catches the dust of the local roads at dusk.

Ore Hill retains a memory of its namesake industry, an echo of the extraction that once dictated the movement and labor of those who settled here. While the heavy machinery has long since departed, the economy of the region has transitioned into a quieter, more diffuse pattern of trade and land stewardship that honors the stubborn persistence of its founders. The nearby Wolf Hollow serves as a natural corridor for the winds that sweep down from the plateau, cooling the air during the humid midsummer afternoons. Residents of Ore Hill often look toward the distant ridges when the weather shifts, finding a sense of scale in the vast, wooded expanses that separate the local pace of life from the frantic industrial centers elsewhere in the state.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State Game Land 041 (State Resource Management Area) — 1.1 mi, 160° S
Shawnee Park (Local Park) — 2.4 mi, 353° N
Claysburg Area Community Park (Local Park) — 2.5 mi, 282° W
State Game Land 147 (State Resource Management Area) — 3.0 mi, 342° N
Hershberger Pool (Local Recreation) — 4.3 mi, 078° E
Woodbury Pike Community Center Playground (Local Recreation) — 4.7 mi, 156° SE
Blue Knob State Park (State Park) — 6.9 mi, 264° W
Captain Phillips' Rangers Memorial (Monument) — 7.5 mi, 108° E
Pavia (Viewpoint) — 8.6 mi, 263° W
Raystown Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 8.8 mi, 126° SE
Old Duncansville Airmail field (Attraction) — 8.8 mi, 344° N
Warriors Path State Park (State Park) — 9.3 mi, 132° SE
Raystown Lake (Recreation Area) — 9.5 mi, 118° SE
Golden Tiger Statue (Public Artwork) — 10.2 mi, 000° N
Trough Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 10.4 mi, 104° E
Lost Cox Children Monument (Monument) — 10.7 mi, 271° W
Korean War Memorial (Monument) — 11.3 mi, 015° N
Leap-The-Dips (Theme Park) — 12.2 mi, 001° N
Quarry (Historic Ruins) — 15.0 mi, 025° NE
Galliztin Tuneels Museum (Museum) — 15.3 mi, 329° NW
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Museum) — 15.3 mi, 360° N
Cresson Railroad Observation Platform (Attraction) — 15.4 mi, 320° NW
Clear Shade Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 17.5 mi, 249° W
Lime kiln (Historic Ruins) — 18.4 mi, 192° S
Keirn Family World War II Museum (Museum) — 19.2 mi, 320° NW
Disaster’s Edge Environmental Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 19.3 mi, 279° W
Coal Miner's Museum and Memorial (Museum) — 19.4 mi, 279° W
Bedford Speedway Museum of Speed (Museum) — 19.7 mi, 196° S
Serafina Art Studio (Gallery) — 19.8 mi, 196° S
Nathan's Divided Nature Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 22.1 mi, 311° NW

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