Explore Shinglehouse, 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 Shinglehouse, 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 Shinglehouse.
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 | Shinglehouse |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Potter County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 41.963677 |
| Longitude | -78.190844 |
| Population | 1,103 |
| Density | 204.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 16748 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | Coudersport |
| School District | Oswayo Valley School District |
Shinglehouse occupies a low-slung bend of the landscape where the Honeoye Creek cuts a persistent, silver-threaded path through the earth. It lies 41.7 miles north-northeast of Saint Marys, PA (from Saint Marys, PA: bearing 27°T), and is situated 14.6 miles east-southeast of Olean. The air here holds a particular, sharp clarity, especially in the cooling hours of late afternoon when the light stretches long across the fields and shadows deepen in the nearby Karr Hollow. The ground is defined by the steady, rhythmic rise of the plateau, a landscape that demands a certain endurance from those who work the soil or navigate the terrain. Beyond the immediate clearing, the land tilts upward toward the distant Appalachian Mountains, which appear as a pale, jagged line against the bruised violet of the horizon. Residents often walk the paths of Honeoye Park, where the trees lean in close, their branches filtering the sunlight into patches of shifting, amber color that settle on the forest floor.
Shinglehouse grew from the stubborn necessity of the frontier, its identity forged in the era of timber and the subsequent discovery of oil and natural gas beneath the shale. The economy remains tethered to these deep-earth resources and the cyclical nature of industry, though the pace of life has settled into a quiet, deliberate routine that ignores the frantic speed of the outside world. Men and women here understand the value of a hand-turned wrench and the patience required to manage the winters that drift down from the north. History is not a display for visitors but a layer of grit and habit, visible in the weathered siding of older houses and the stoic, functional architecture of the center. When the wind picks up, it carries a faint, dry scent of wood smoke and mineral earth, a reminder of the thousands of miles of woodland that stretch toward the Susquehanna State Forest, leaving Shinglehouse to exist as a singular, enduring point in a vast and silent wilderness.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Shinglehouse, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.963677, -78.190844. 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 Shinglehouse includes the ZIP code (16748), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Potter County (Coudersport), and school district assignment (Oswayo Valley School District).
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. |