Explore Spangler, 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 Spangler, 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 Spangler.
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 | Spangler |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Cambria County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.642846 |
| Longitude | -78.772804 |
| Population | 1,946 |
| Density | 480.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 15714, 15775 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | Ebensburg |
Spangler occupies a rugged plateau where the West Branch Susquehanna River carves a dark, persistent path through the earth. It lies 20.0 miles east of Indiana, PA (from Indiana, PA: bearing 86°T), and is situated 1.2 miles south-southeast of Northern Cambria. The air here holds a crisp, metallic edge, flavored by the damp earth and the heavy, slate-colored skies that seem to settle permanently above the Allegheny Mountains on the distant horizon. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the land shifts into the deep, shaded quiet of Driscoll Hollow, where the terrain loses its manicured edges to wilder, overgrown brush. Closer to the center, the quietude of Crawford Avenue Community Park offers a singular clearing, a modest patch of green where the light of a fading afternoon catches the dew on the grass, turning the blades into needles of pale, flickering glass.
Spangler emerged from the deep seams of the earth, built upon a foundation of coal that once dictated the pulse of every shift and the rhythm of every household. While the machinery of extraction has long since gone silent, the legacy of that era remains in the sturdy, unadorned architecture and the grounded, pragmatic temperament of the people who still walk these streets. Industry has receded, leaving behind a stillness that allows the distant, rushing sound of the West Branch Susquehanna River to become the town’s primary clock. Even the proximity of Browns Run Reservoir, a quiet basin of held water, underscores a landscape defined by its resources and its resilience. Life in Spangler moves with a deliberate, measured pace, indifferent to the frantic velocity of the world beyond the hills, finding its own steady cadence in the changing seasons of the plateau.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Spangler, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.642846, -78.772804. 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 Spangler includes the ZIP code (15714, 15775), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Cambria County (Ebensburg), 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. |