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Rainsburg Pennsylvania Map

Explore Rainsburg, 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 Rainsburg, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Rainsburg, Pennsylvania Map

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

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

Latitude	39.89425
Longitude	-78.516128
Population	141
Density	334.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	15522
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Bedford
School District	Bedford Area School District

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About Rainsburg, Pennsylvania

Rainsburg is a locality in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 141. The population density is 334.0 people per km². Rainsburg is located at 39.8942°N, 78.5161°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Rainsburg is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 15522.

Rainsburg keeps a low, steady profile against the wide, quiet expanse of the Pennsylvania interior, where the land rises and falls in long, deliberate swells of earth. It lies 36.8 miles southeast of Johnstown, PA (from Johnstown, PA: bearing 144°T), and is situated 8.6 miles south of Bedford. The air here holds the clean, sharp scent of damp soil and ancient timber, filtered through the dense canopy of Buchanan State Forest, which waits just five miles away to claim the horizon in a deep, impenetrable green. Nearby, the Reservoir Trail offers a quiet passage through the woods, winding toward the gentle, insistent flow of Cove Creek, whose waters trace a silver path through the landscape only a mile from the center of the village. Even the distant, hazy blue outlines of the Allegheny Mountains, forty-two miles to the west, seem to bow toward this valley, anchoring the geography in a permanence that feels both rugged and composed.

Rainsburg carries the weight of a slow, industrious past, a legacy of settlement that lingers in the way the architecture clings to the hillside above Three Lick Hollow. The local economy has long been tethered to the harvest of the land and the quiet persistence of those who work it, moving with a pace that ignores the frantic acceleration of the outside world. Residents might spend their afternoons walking the quiet roads that lead toward the stillness of Little Pond, eight miles distant, or finding the rhythm of their day in the small, unadorned tasks that define life in a place where the seasons dictate the schedule. There is a particular, amber quality to the light as it catches the dust of the late afternoon, illuminating a way of life that values the endurance of the soil and the silence between the gusts of wind moving through the trees.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Buchanan State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 0.9 mi, 169° S
State Game Land 097 (State Resource Management Area) — 1.3 mi, 138° SE
Sweet Root Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.4 mi, 197° S
Martin Hill Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 3.5 mi, 210° SW
Berger Tract (Conservation Area) — 4.5 mi, 003° N
Bedford Springs (Local Park) — 6.0 mi, 357° N
Pine Ridge Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.3 mi, 159° S
Bedford Speedway Museum of Speed (Museum) — 8.6 mi, 005° N
Serafina Art Studio (Gallery) — 8.6 mi, 004° N
Shawnee State Park (State Park) — 9.8 mi, 331° NW
Lime kiln (Historic Ruins) — 9.9 mi, 014° N
Everett Area Honor Roll (Monument) — 11.6 mi, 045° NE
Rocky Gap Sp (State Park) — 13.4 mi, 206° SW
Lookout Point Mount Ararat (Viewpoint) — 16.2 mi, 308° NW
Fort Dewart (Historic Castle / Fort) — 16.8 mi, 309° NW
Victor Cushwa (Monument) — 17.4 mi, 134° SE
Allegany Arts Council (Gallery) — 21.2 mi, 218° SW
The Three Stars Arts (Gallery) — 21.2 mi, 218° SW
B'er Chayim Congregation (Monument) — 21.2 mi, 218° SW
Embassy Theatre (Theatre) — 21.3 mi, 218° SW
Greenway Avenue Stadium (Stadium) — 21.3 mi, 215° SW
Clear Shade Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 22.1 mi, 332° NW
Hancock Museum (Museum) — 22.2 mi, 127° SE
Oregon Camp (Historic Ruins) — 22.2 mi, 061° NE
Flight 93 National Memorial Entrance (Museum) — 23.5 mi, 304° NW
Museum of Berkeley Springs (Museum) — 23.9 mi, 140° SE
The New Earth Granary (Theatre) — 24.0 mi, 140° SE
Morgan Arts Council (Public Artwork) — 24.0 mi, 140° SE
George Washington National Forest (National Forest) — 52.3 mi, 181° S · 1.1M acres
Shenandoah National Park (National Park) — 70.0 mi, 166° S · 197k acres

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