Penns Creek Pennsylvania Map

About Penns Creek, Pennsylvania

Penns Creek is a locality in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 694. The population density is 365.1 people per km². Penns Creek is located at 40.8598°N, 77.0553°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 17862.

Penns Creek reveals itself through the steady, low murmur of the Dry Run as it slices through the limestone-heavy earth. It lies 26.5 miles south of Williamsport, PA (from Williamsport, PA: bearing 186°T), and is situated 4.0 miles south of Mifflinburg. The landscape here is defined by the deliberate pace of the interior, where the horizon is dominated by the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains standing sentinel over the surrounding fields. Within this local geography, the land tilts toward the Hiester Valley, creating a basin that catches the long, amber light of late afternoon, turning the fields into a mosaic of muted ochre and deep green. Keene Community Park serves as the quiet center of this expanse, a place where the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the sharp, rhythmic snap of wind through the tall, uncultivated grasses.

Penns Creek maintains a character forged by the persistent labor of the soil, grounded in an agricultural legacy that favors patience over speed. The economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the seasons, echoing a time when the surrounding woodland provided the primary architecture for the local hearths and barns. Travelers often seek out the Garard Trail to trace the older paths that cut through the dense brush, offering a vantage point on the quiet industry of a place that prefers to keep its own counsel. While the Spruce Run Reservoir waits twelve miles away, the immediate life of Penns Creek is defined by the smaller, persistent veins of water and the long, shadowed stretches of ground that have remained largely unchanged for generations.

About This Penns Creek Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Penns Creek, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.859804, -77.055254. 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 Penns Creek includes the ZIP code (17862), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Snyder County (Middleburg), and school district assignment (Midd-West 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.