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Puritan Pennsylvania Map

Explore Puritan, 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 Puritan, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Puritan, Pennsylvania Map

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

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	Puritan
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Fayette County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.36563
Longitude	-78.643629
Population	480
Density	18.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	15458, 15946, 15601
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Uniontown

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About Puritan, Pennsylvania

Puritan is a locality in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 18.0 people per km². Puritan is located at 40.3656°N, 78.6436°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 15458, 15946, 15601.

Puritan occupies a quiet fold of the earth where the North Branch Browns Run carves a persistent, narrow path through the darkened soil. It lies 20.0 miles south of Rostraver, PA (from Rostraver, PA: bearing 188°T), and is situated 7.8 miles west of Uniontown. The landscape here is defined by a heavy, verdant stillness, where the shadows of the Allegheny Mountains, though distant, seem to press against the horizon, lending a gravity to the afternoon light. Beyond the immediate clearing, the terrain rises into dense, tangled woods that spill toward the borders of State Game Land 238, a expanse of protected wildness where the silence is broken only by the snap of dry branches underfoot. Five miles away, the dark, reflective surface of Pond Four holds the gray sky in a stillness that mirrors the muted, earthen palette of the surrounding plateau.

Puritan carries the weight of a long-standing industrial memory, its foundations laid by those who turned to the earth for coal and sustenance. The local economy has shifted away from the soot-stained intensity of the past, leaving behind a pace of life that favors the slow, deliberate work of seasonal maintenance and small-scale trade. Life in Puritan is measured by the changing color of the leaves and the cooling air that drifts down from the higher elevations, carrying the scent of damp bark and mineral-rich earth. Residents often look toward the distant ridges or find their way along the paths that lead toward the Mile Trail, moving through a quiet, interior world that has grown comfortable with its own isolation, far removed from the clamor of the wider, faster world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State Game Land 026 (State Resource Management Area) — 1.7 mi, 163° S
Crichton McCormick Park (Local Park) — 2.0 mi, 295° NW
Cassandra Railroad Overlook (Viewpoint) — 2.9 mi, 007° N
State Game Land 198 (State Resource Management Area) — 3.6 mi, 073° E
Wilmore Reservoir (Local Park) — 3.8 mi, 328° NW
Lilly Washingtom Field and Memorial (Local Recreation) — 4.3 mi, 023° NE
Blue Knob State Park (State Park) — 5.3 mi, 162° S
Lost Cox Children Monument (Monument) — 5.3 mi, 157° SE
Wilmore Resevoir - Patrick's Road Property Acq. (Local Recreation) — 5.5 mi, 341° N
Sidman Veterans' Memorial (Monument) — 5.8 mi, 245° SW
Disaster’s Edge Environmental Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 6.5 mi, 253° W
Coal Miner's Museum and Memorial (Museum) — 6.6 mi, 253° W
St. Michael Veterans' Memorial (Monument) — 6.7 mi, 250° W
Cresson Railroad Observation Platform (Attraction) — 7.4 mi, 023° NE
Galliztin Tuneels Museum (Museum) — 9.4 mi, 031° NE
Cambria County Historical Society (Museum) — 9.6 mi, 333° NW
Keirn Family World War II Museum (Museum) — 9.8 mi, 003° N
Nathan's Divided Nature Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 10.3 mi, 338° N
Old Duncansville Airmail field (Attraction) — 10.9 mi, 071° E
Clear Shade Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 11.2 mi, 202° S
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Museum) — 12.0 mi, 236° SW
Golden Tiger Statue (Public Artwork) — 13.8 mi, 068° E
Leap-The-Dips (Theme Park) — 14.9 mi, 061° NE
Bottle Works (Arts Centre) — 15.0 mi, 263° W
Memorial Auditorium (Theatre) — 15.0 mi, 259° W
Roxbury Bandshell (Theatre) — 15.6 mi, 252° W
Laurel Ridge State Park (State Park) — 16.1 mi, 269° W
Trough Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 24.1 mi, 108° E

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