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Spruce Creek Pennsylvania Map

Explore Spruce Creek, 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 Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania Map

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

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	Spruce Creek
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Huntingdon County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.609511
Longitude	-78.135564
Population	480
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	16683
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Huntingdon

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About Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania

Spruce Creek is a locality in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Spruce Creek is located at 40.6095°N, 78.1356°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16683.

Spruce Creek defines the limestone-rich corridor where the Little Juniata River cuts a persistent, winding path through the rugged terrain. It lies 15.0 miles east-northeast of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 65°T), and is situated 6.9 miles southeast of Tyrone. The landscape here is characterized by steep, wooded slopes that rise toward the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Allegheny Mountains, providing a stark verticality to the horizon. To the west, the expansive, fertile floor of Sinking Valley stretches out, its agricultural patchwork a sharp contrast to the dense, cool shadows cast by the trees within the nearby Little Juniata Natural Area. Light in this valley tends to linger, catching the limestone outcrops in a pale, amber glow as the afternoon sun retreats behind the ridges, leaving the river to mirror the darkening sky in its swift, cold current.

Spruce Creek maintains a quiet, deliberate pace that honors a history deeply tied to the land and the limestone industry that once shaped its economy. While the rumble of heavy machinery has faded into a memory of regional development, the presence of the Little Juniata River remains the lifeblood of the locality, drawing those who appreciate the stillness of the water and the reach of the Indian Trail as it traverses the nearby woods. The influence of regional institutions like the Pennsylvania State University Experimental Forest is felt in the careful stewardship of the surrounding timberlands, ensuring that the ecological character of the region remains preserved. Life in Spruce Creek persists as a quiet observation of the changing seasons, where the primary rhythm is dictated by the steady, unrelenting movement of the river against the stones.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Old Spruce Creek Station (Monument) — 0.3 mi, 303° NW
Little Juniata Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.5 mi, 082° E
Rothrock State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 0.6 mi, 066° NE
Spruce Creek Rail Tunnel West Portal (Attraction) — 0.7 mi, 147° SE
Spruce Creek Vista (Viewpoint) — 0.8 mi, 055° NE
Spruce Creek Rail Tunnel East Portal (Attraction) — 0.9 mi, 140° SE
State Game Land 166 (State Resource Management Area) — 2.0 mi, 230° SW
The Lower Trail (Monument) — 3.0 mi, 167° S
Alexandria Ball Field (Local Recreation) — 3.6 mi, 154° SE
Warriors Ridge (Conservation Area) — 5.8 mi, 123° SE
Tyrone Historical Society (Museum) — 6.8 mi, 307° NW
Fort Roberdeau Historic Site & Natural Area (Local Conservation Area) — 7.0 mi, 254° W
Lincoln Caverns (Museum) — 7.7 mi, 155° SE
Grace Nature Trail (Nature Reserve) — 7.7 mi, 322° NW
Suzanne von Liebig Theatre (Theatre) — 9.8 mi, 140° SE
Silent Descent (Public Artwork) — 9.8 mi, 140° SE
Canoe Creek State Park (State Park) — 10.2 mi, 222° SW
Quarry (Historic Ruins) — 11.1 mi, 223° SW
Old In-town Altoona airstrip (Monument) — 11.7 mi, 258° W
Stone Valley Recreation Area (Nature Reserve) — 12.4 mi, 072° E
Raystown Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 12.5 mi, 159° S
Shavers Creek Environmental Center (Attraction) — 12.5 mi, 071° E
Raystown Lake (Recreation Area) — 12.6 mi, 159° S
Three Sisters Rock Formation (Attraction) — 15.0 mi, 103° E
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Museum) — 15.4 mi, 245° SW
Pine Grove Mills Rail Station (Historic Ruins) — 15.4 mi, 056° NE
Leap-The-Dips (Theme Park) — 16.7 mi, 235° SW
Trough Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 17.4 mi, 175° S
Prince Gallitzin State Park (State Park) — 17.7 mi, 280° W
Thickhead Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 19.9 mi, 066° NE

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