Orviston Pennsylvania Map

About Orviston, Pennsylvania

Orviston is a locality in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 64. The population density is 230.9 people per km². Orviston is located at 41.1065°N, 77.7522°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16864.

Orviston occupies a narrow, deliberate crease in the landscape where the Beech Creek carves a persistent path through the rugged terrain. It lies 22.3 miles north-northeast of State College, PA (from State College, PA: bearing 15°T), and is situated 16.0 miles west of Lock Haven. The air here holds a cool, damp weight, smelling of damp shale and the deep, pervasive quiet of the surrounding Sproul State Forest. To the north, the sharp incline of Trapping Hollow rises abruptly, shielding the valley floor from the broader, distant silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains. The light at dusk settles into the hollows with a bruised, metallic quality, turning the steep slopes into silhouettes that seem to press inward, defining the very limits of the day.

Orviston retains the splintered remnants of a clay-working legacy, a time when the earth itself provided both the sustenance and the industry that anchored the residents to this specific soil. While the industrial pulse has slowed, the town remains tethered to the rhythm of the woods and the nearby waterways, standing as a quiet witness to the shifting fortunes of the plateau. A traveler might wander the Salt Lick Trail or venture toward the expanse of Foster Joseph Sayers Lake, yet the character of the place remains anchored in the stubborn persistence of its architecture. Life here follows the slow, deliberate pace of the seasons, marked by the transformation of the canopy and the persistent, low-frequency rush of the water as it moves through the stones.

About This Orviston Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Orviston, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.106452, -77.752218. 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 Orviston includes the ZIP code (16864), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Centre County (Bellefonte), and school district assignment (Keystone Central 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.