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Pine Grove Mills Pennsylvania Map

Explore Pine Grove Mills, 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 Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Pine Grove Mills, 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 Pine Grove Mills.

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

Latitude	40.733674
Longitude	-77.885557
Population	1,481
Density	228.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	16868
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Bellefonte
School District	State College Area School District

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About Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania

Pine Grove Mills is a locality in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,481. The population density is 228.4 people per km². Pine Grove Mills is located at 40.7337°N, 77.8856°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16868.

Pine Grove Mills emerges from the landscape where the steady, rhythmic pulse of Slab Cabin Run cuts a cool path through the dense, verdant shadow of the Ferguson Twp Watershed Preserve. It lies 4.3 miles south-southwest of State College, PA (from State College, PA: bearing 198°T), and is situated 5.3 miles south-southeast of Park Forest Village. The light here filters through the canopy with a heavy, golden quality, illuminating the transition from the low-lying basin toward the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains that rise twenty-six miles to the horizon. Just a mile away, the quiet surface of Beaver Pond reflects the sky, while the Kepler Trail offers a narrow, dirt-packed artery for those walking into the deep, quiet air of the nearby Rothrock State Forest. The atmosphere in Pine Grove Mills remains dense with the scent of damp earth and decaying leaves, a reminder that the land here is primary, indifferent to the small, orderly grid of streets that attempt to contain it.

History in Pine Grove Mills is written in the surviving masonry and the lingering echo of an economy once tethered to the water’s power and the surrounding timber. While the mills themselves have long since surrendered their original purpose, the town retains a sense of purposeful isolation, separated from the rapid expansion of neighboring Penns Valley by miles of thick, unyielding woodland. Modern life here moves with a deliberate, cautious pace, favoring the silence of the woods over the clamor of industrial progress. Residents observe the change of seasons as the defining rhythm of their days, watching the colors of the ridge shift from the pale, skeletal gray of winter to the aggressive, thick green of late summer. It is a place where the architecture of the past—small, sturdy structures built to endure the harsh, inland winters—remains functional, anchoring the present to a time when the proximity to the forest determined the limits of one’s livelihood.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ferguson Twp Watershed Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 0.2 mi, 166° S
Rothrock State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 0.2 mi, 200° S
Pine Grove Mills Rail Station (Historic Ruins) — 0.3 mi, 269° W
Cecil Irvin Park (Local Park) — 0.4 mi, 345° N
Sunday Land Acquisition (Local Recreation) — 0.4 mi, 345° N
David's Vista (Viewpoint) — 0.9 mi, 167° S
Musser Gap (State Resource Management Area) — 1.6 mi, 075° E
Whitehall Road Regional Park (Local Park) — 2.0 mi, 031° NE
PSU Whitehall Road Acquisition (Local Recreation) — 2.3 mi, 035° NE
Whipple Dam State Park (State Park) — 3.1 mi, 154° SE
Michael E. Weston Memorial (Monument) — 3.6 mi, 337° NW
Pictasaurus (Public Artwork) — 4.2 mi, 018° N
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial (Monument) — 4.3 mi, 017° N
Blue Brick Theatre (Theatre) — 4.3 mi, 016° N
EMS Museum and Art Gallery (Museum) — 4.3 mi, 014° N
Charcoal Hearth (Attraction) — 4.3 mi, 073° E
State Theatre (Theatre) — 4.3 mi, 016° N
3 Dots (Gallery) — 4.4 mi, 018° N
Douglas Albert Gallery (Gallery) — 4.5 mi, 018° N
The Land-Grant Frescoes (Gallery) — 4.5 mi, 015° N
Old Botany (Monument) — 4.5 mi, 014° N
Matson Museum of Anthropology (Museum) — 4.6 mi, 010° N
Mill Wheel (Attraction) — 4.6 mi, 027° NE
Pennsylvania Agricultural College (PAC) Herbarium (Museum) — 4.7 mi, 014° N
The Center for Arts & Crafts at Penn State (Arts Centre) — 4.7 mi, 016° N
Shavers Creek Environmental Center (Attraction) — 4.7 mi, 196° S
Big Flat Laurel Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.9 mi, 099° E
Thickhead Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 5.0 mi, 095° E
Bear Meadows Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.5 mi, 098° E
Greenwood Furnace State Park (State Park) — 8.3 mi, 134° SE

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