Smith Corner Pennsylvania Map

About Smith Corner, Pennsylvania

Smith Corner is a locality in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 38. The population density is 564.3 people per km². Smith Corner is located at 40.3576°N, 78.4889°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16637.

Smith Corner emerges from the dense, folded landscape of the Allegheny Plateau, where the South Dry Run carves a shallow, rhythmic path through the silt and limestone of the valley floor. It lies 12.2 miles south-southwest of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 204°T), and is situated 7.1 miles southwest of Hollidaysburg. The horizon remains dominated by the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Allegheny Mountains, which press against the sky like the knuckles of a giant hand. Sunlight here has a particular, heavy clarity, turning the fields of dried corn stalks into brittle copper in the late afternoon. To the west, the terrain rises into the quiet, wooded ridges that lead toward the expansive territory of State Game Land 198, where the silence is broken only by the sharp, sudden clatter of a startled grouse. The air carries a scent of damp earth and cooling mineral stone, a reminder that the land remains perpetually shaped by the slow, persistent work of the creek.

Smith Corner serves as a quiet anchor for the surrounding agricultural holdings, its history rooted in the grit of small-scale milling and the slow accumulation of rural homesteads. While the local economy has transitioned away from the heavy industry that defined the wider region’s past, the influence of the earth persists in the way the residents measure their seasons by the harvest and the changing color of the hardwoods. A few miles away, the waters of Plain Nine Reservoir offer a stillness that contrasts with the seasonal bustle of the nearby fields, while the gateway to Wolf Hollow provides a natural corridor for those moving through the rugged interior. Life in Smith Corner moves with the deliberate pace of a pendulum, indifferent to the frantic speed of the wider world, favoring instead the steady, repetitive tasks of maintaining a fence line or waiting for the frost to finally release the soil.

About This Smith Corner Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Smith Corner, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.357574, -78.488904. 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 Smith Corner includes the ZIP code (16637), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Blair County (Hollidaysburg), and school district assignment (Spring Cove 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.