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Roots Pennsylvania Map

Explore Roots, 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 Roots, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Roots, Pennsylvania Map

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

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

Latitude	40.613399
Longitude	-78.361126
Population	101
Density	378.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	16686
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Hollidaysburg
School District	Bellwood-Antis School District

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About Roots, Pennsylvania

Roots is a locality in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 101. The population density is 378.6 people per km². Roots is located at 40.6134°N, 78.3611°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16686.

Roots occupies a narrow, quiet crease in the earth where the landscape rises into the rugged, forested spine of the Allegheny Mountains. It lies 6.8 miles north-northeast of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 15°T), and is situated 7.5 miles west-southwest of Tyrone. The Bells Gap Run carves a path through the terrain, its waters drawing a silver thread past the modest dwellings that define the character of Roots. To the east, the horizon is held by the jagged, shadowed heights of the peaks, while the nearby Bellwood Reservoir catches the pale, slant light of late afternoon, mirroring the hemlocks and maples that crowd its banks. Only a mile away, the expansive, wooded acreage of State Game Land 158 offers a dense, quiet sanctuary of oak and mountain laurel, keeping the encroachment of modern industry at a respectful distance.

History in Roots is written in the stubborn endurance of those who first cleared the timber and laid the rails that once hummed with the weight of coal and iron from the nearby Logan Valley. The economy has long since shifted from the frantic extraction of resources to a slower, more deliberate pace, where the labor of the day is marked by the cooling air of the valley floor rather than the whistle of a foundry. Residents here recognize the changing seasons by the way the frost settles on the ridges and the way the autumn leaves drift into the dark, cold currents of the creek. Life in Roots persists with a quiet gravity, anchored by the familiarity of the surrounding hills and the enduring, unadorned strength of a mountain-adjacent existence.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State Game Land 158 (State Resource Management Area) — 1.0 mi, 344° N
5th Street Park (Local Park) — 1.4 mi, 108° E
Bellwood Antis Park (Local Park) — 1.5 mi, 127° SE
State Game Land 108 (State Resource Management Area) — 1.5 mi, 289° W
Bells Gap Railroad Trail (Local Recreation) — 1.6 mi, 125° SE
Old In-town Altoona airstrip (Monument) — 2.8 mi, 172° S
Recreation Complex (Local Recreation) — 3.2 mi, 075° E
Fort Roberdeau Historic Site & Natural Area (Local Conservation Area) — 5.0 mi, 116° SE
Wopsononock Lookout (Viewpoint) — 5.2 mi, 233° SW
Great Auk (Public Artwork) — 5.5 mi, 207° SW
Prince Gallitzin State Park (State Park) — 6.3 mi, 297° NW
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Museum) — 7.1 mi, 197° S
Tyrone Historical Society (Museum) — 7.4 mi, 059° NE
Wopsononock Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.7 mi, 355° N
Canoe Creek State Park (State Park) — 9.1 mi, 154° SE
Grace Nature Trail (Nature Reserve) — 9.1 mi, 050° NE
Quarry (Historic Ruins) — 9.4 mi, 153° SE
Leap-The-Dips (Theme Park) — 10.0 mi, 191° S
Ashville Monumnet (Monument) — 10.5 mi, 249° W
Korean War Memorial (Monument) — 11.2 mi, 176° S
Little Juniata Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 12.2 mi, 094° E
Spruce Creek Rail Tunnel West Portal (Attraction) — 12.2 mi, 094° E
Spruce Creek Rail Tunnel East Portal (Attraction) — 12.5 mi, 094° E
Coalport Area Coal Museum (Museum) — 13.0 mi, 316° NW
Galliztin Tuneels Museum (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 228° SW
Old Duncansville Airmail field (Attraction) — 14.3 mi, 198° S
Cresson Railroad Observation Platform (Attraction) — 15.8 mi, 229° SW
Keirn Family World War II Museum (Museum) — 16.2 mi, 243° SW
Suzanne von Liebig Theatre (Theatre) — 19.7 mi, 113° SE
Trough Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 22.2 mi, 148° SE

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