Rosebud Pennsylvania Map

About Rosebud, Pennsylvania

Rosebud is a locality in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 351. The population density is 242.7 people per km². Rosebud is located at 40.7542°N, 78.5414°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16627.

Rosebud occupies a quiet reach of the Allegheny Plateau where the land folds into a series of shadowed ridges and narrow, fertile depressions. It lies 18.0 miles north-northwest of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 335°T), and is situated 19.6 miles south-southwest of Clearfield. Clearfield Creek carves a persistent path through the local topography, its dark water reflecting the overarching canopy of hardwoods that define the seasonal shifts of the Pennsylvania interior. To the east, the silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains marks the horizon, a jagged blue line that keeps the weather and the wild at a respectful distance. A short walk from the center of Rosebud, the quiet expanse of Beechwood Park offers a preserved trace of the old-growth timber, while the nearby drainage of Dotts Hollow channels the spring runoff toward the basin. The air here holds a crisp, earthen weight, smelling of damp shale and the cooling breath of the Irvona Reservoir, which lies just far enough away to remain a silver sliver of stillness in the landscape.

Rosebud maintains a character forged by the stubborn industry of the coal and timber eras, reflecting a legacy of extraction that once dictated the pulse of every hearth and railway siding. The local economy, having moved past the intense demands of the heavy industrial age, now settles into a slower, more deliberate rhythm defined by small-scale enterprise and the maintenance of a rural infrastructure. Residents navigate their days under the low, slanted light of the plateau, a illumination that catches the rusted corrugated iron of old outbuildings and the worn brick of modest residential rows with equal clarity. Life in Rosebud moves in accordance with the turning of the seasons, where the primary occupations often lean toward the stewardship of the land and the quiet preservation of a way of life that values the integrity of the work over the clamor of the modern world.

About This Rosebud Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rosebud, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.754229, -78.541412. 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 Rosebud includes the ZIP code (16627), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Clearfield County (Clearfield), and school district assignment (Glendale School District).

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.