Explore Rochester 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Rochester 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 Rochester 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 | Rochester Mills |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Indiana County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.818675 |
| Longitude | -78.985588 |
| Population | 680 |
| Density | 22.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 15771 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | Indiana |
Rochester Mills occupies a quiet corridor where the Little Mahoning Creek carves a persistent, winding path through the dense, verdant terrain of the Allegheny Plateau. It lies 16.2 miles north-northeast of Indiana, PA (from Indiana, PA: bearing 33°T), and is situated 8.7 miles south of Punxsutawney. The landscape surrounding Rochester Mills is defined by a deep, wooded intimacy, where the air holds a perpetual dampness and the light at dusk filters through the canopy in long, amber shafts that catch the riffles of the water. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Allegheny Mountains anchor the horizon, while the terrain itself remains a complex arrangement of slopes and hollows, softened by the encroaching thickets of State Game Land 262. Just six miles away, the stillness of Straight Run Lake provides a reflective contrast to the constant, low-frequency murmur of the creek as it moves over submerged stones and tangled roots.
Economic life in Rochester Mills has long been tethered to the rhythmic demands of the earth, echoing the industrial persistence that once characterized the broader region. The settlement retains a character forged by the quiet extraction of resources and the modest, steady labor of those who cleared the timber and worked the soil. Despite the shifting tides of the modern economy, the pace of the day remains dictated by the sun and the seasonal cycles of the surrounding woodland, rather than the frantic tempo of distant metropolitan centers. This is a place where the history of the land is written in the silence of overgrown paths and the sturdy, unpretentious architecture that persists against the damp, biting winters. Life here unfolds with a deliberate, singular gravity, favoring the endurance of the local landscape over the transient noise of the outside world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rochester Mills, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.818675, -78.985588. 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 Rochester Mills includes the ZIP code (15771), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Indiana County (Indiana), and school district assignment.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |