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Pleasant Gap Pennsylvania Map

Explore Pleasant Gap, 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 Pleasant Gap, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Pleasant Gap, Pennsylvania Map

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

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

Latitude	40.868118
Longitude	-77.746666
Population	2,945
Density	695.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	16823
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Bellefonte
School District	Bellefonte Area School District

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About Pleasant Gap, Pennsylvania

Pleasant Gap is a locality in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,945. The population density is 695.5 people per km². Pleasant Gap is located at 40.8681°N, 77.7467°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16823.

Pleasant Gap occupies a quiet corridor where the limestone earth meets the steady, deliberate pace of the Pennsylvania interior. It lies 7.9 miles northeast of State College, PA (from State College, PA: bearing 49°T), and is situated 9.9 miles east-northeast of Park Forest Village. The landscape is defined by the cool, persistent flow of Logan Branch, which cuts a clear path through the valley floor, drawing moisture into the soil and feeding the lush, green fringes of the local meadows. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain rises toward the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains, while the dense, shaded canopy of Bald Eagle State Forest provides a dark, verdant anchor to the horizon. Sunlight here has a particular clarity, filtering through the humid air of late afternoon to turn the limestone dust and gravel roads a soft, pale silver, while the nearby Rockview Reservoir holds the reflection of the sky in a mirror of deep, still blue.

Pleasant Gap maintains a steady character forged by an economy that has long balanced agriculture with a quiet, industrial persistence. The rhythm of daily life is punctuated by the sharp crack of a bat at Gettig's Little League Fields, where the local spirit finds its most communal expression under the wide, open sky. History is carried in the very grit of the region, where the extraction of mineral wealth once shaped the local labor and continues to inform the way the land is worked today. Residents move with a sense of purpose that acknowledges the nearby expanse of Big Hollow, favoring the pragmatic over the ornamental. Those seeking the stillness of the woods often head toward the Sand Rock Trail, finding in the elevation a perspective that simplifies the complexities of the valley below into a coherent, manageable whole.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Gettig's Little League Fields (Local Recreation) — 0.1 mi, 348° N
Pleasant Hills Park (Local Park) — 0.4 mi, 357° N
Bald Eagle State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 1.4 mi, 103° E
Rockview (Local Recreation) — 1.7 mi, 274° W
State Game Land 333 (State Resource Management Area) — 2.1 mi, 266° W
Smokestack (Historic Ruins) — 2.6 mi, 267° W
Penn's Prairie - Tri-Municipal Park (Local Park) — 3.0 mi, 130° SE
Spring Creek Canyon (Nature Reserve) — 3.3 mi, 261° W
Via Air Mail (Public Artwork) — 3.4 mi, 331° NW
Abraham Lincoln Bust (Monument) — 3.4 mi, 328° NW
American Philatelic Center (Museum) — 3.4 mi, 326° NW
US Air Mail Memorial (Monument) — 3.5 mi, 326° NW
Bellefonte Governors' Memorial (Monument) — 3.5 mi, 329° NW
Stony Batter Nature Park (Conservation Area) — 3.9 mi, 211° SW
Tom Smith Overlook (Viewpoint) — 3.9 mi, 211° SW
Deeded Square Inches (Attraction) — 4.5 mi, 211° SW
Art Alliance (Arts Centre) — 5.5 mi, 223° SW
M60A3 Tank (Attraction) — 6.5 mi, 203° SW
M114A2 Towed 155mm Howitzer (Attraction) — 6.5 mi, 203° SW
M42A1 Duster (Attraction) — 6.5 mi, 204° SW
Penn State All-Sports Museum (Museum) — 6.9 mi, 235° SW
The Frost Entomological Museum (Museum) — 7.5 mi, 233° SW
Pilato Studios (Gallery) — 7.6 mi, 230° SW
The Center for Arts & Crafts at Penn State (Arts Centre) — 7.6 mi, 232° SW
Art Alley (Gallery) — 7.7 mi, 231° SW
Thickhead Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 8.1 mi, 183° S
Bald Eagle State Park (State Park) — 8.5 mi, 015° N
Bear Meadows Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.9 mi, 182° S
Black Moshannon State Park (State Park) — 14.8 mi, 277° W
Penns Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 15.1 mi, 096° E

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