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Tire Hill Pennsylvania Map

Explore Tire Hill, 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 Tire Hill, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Tire Hill, Pennsylvania Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Tire Hill, 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 Tire Hill.

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	Tire Hill
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Somerset County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.268686
Longitude	-78.915858
Population	480
Density	18.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	15905, 15959
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Somerset

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About Tire Hill, Pennsylvania

Tire Hill is a locality in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 18.0 people per km². Tire Hill is located at 40.2687°N, 78.9159°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 15905, 15959.

Tire Hill occupies the narrow, folded expanse of Soap Hollow, where the land rises in stubborn, layered ridges that define the local horizon. It lies 4.0 miles south of Johnstown, PA (from Johnstown, PA: bearing 175°T), and is situated 3.8 miles south-southeast of Westmont. The air here holds the cool, damp weight of the interior, shifting in texture as it moves across the rugged topography toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains. Below the steep, wooded inclines, the Stonycreek River carves a deliberate path through the basin, its currents mirroring the slate-gray clouds that often linger over the valley floor. Only a few miles away, the quiet waters of Mill Creek Reservoir offer a pause in the landscape, while the nearby White Tail Falls punctuates the silence with a constant, rhythmic descent of water over moss-slicked stone.

Tire Hill maintains the quiet, working cadence of a place shaped by the industry and resilience of the Pennsylvania interior. The local rhythm remains tethered to the history of the region, where the echoes of coal and steel still inform the character of the settlement, even as the scale of labor has shifted toward modern light industry and regional trade. Residents find recreation at SCL Recreation Park, a space that serves as a common ground for the community amidst the encroaching wildness of the landscape. Life in Tire Hill proceeds with a steady, unadorned focus, marked by the changing seasons that brighten the thickets and darken the hollows, leaving the inhabitants to navigate the intersection of a storied, industrial past and the persistent, quiet endurance of the Appalachian foothills.

Nearby Outdoor Places

SCL Recreation Park (Local Recreation) — 0.5 mi, 330° NW
Stonycreek Township Park (Local Park) — 1.0 mi, 355° N
Ferndale Recreation Park and Fields (Local Recreation) — 1.1 mi, 008° N
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 1.8 mi, 017° N
Roxbury Bandshell (Theatre) — 1.9 mi, 347° N
Memorial Auditorium (Theatre) — 3.8 mi, 355° N
John P. Murtha Statue (Monument) — 3.8 mi, 354° N
World War II Memorial (Monument) — 3.9 mi, 357° N
Morley’s Dog (Public Artwork) — 4.0 mi, 357° N
Observation Deck (Viewpoint) — 4.0 mi, 350° N
Rolling Mills Mine Disaster (Monument) — 4.1 mi, 353° N
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Museum) — 4.3 mi, 090° E
State Game Land 042 (State Resource Management Area) — 4.5 mi, 308° NW
Bottle Works (Arts Centre) — 5.0 mi, 354° N
Wagner-Ritter House (Museum) — 5.0 mi, 352° N
Laurel Ridge State Park (State Park) — 6.4 mi, 341° N
Gallitzin State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 7.1 mi, 352° N
Coal Miner's Museum and Memorial (Museum) — 9.3 mi, 059° NE
Disaster’s Edge Environmental Education Center (Nature Reserve) — 9.4 mi, 059° NE
Clear Shade Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 9.7 mi, 126° SE
Flight 93 National Memorial Entrance (Museum) — 13.0 mi, 173° S
Blue Knob State Park (State Park) — 15.1 mi, 091° E
Fort Dewart (Historic Castle / Fort) — 17.3 mi, 152° SE
Cambria County Historical Society (Museum) — 18.3 mi, 033° NE
Jack Be Nimble (Attraction) — 18.8 mi, 269° W
Hush A Bye Baby (Attraction) — 18.8 mi, 269° W
Hickory Dickory Dock (Attraction) — 18.8 mi, 269° W

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