Venango Pennsylvania Map

About Venango, Pennsylvania

Venango is a locality in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 212. The population density is 299.8 people per km². Venango is located at 41.7727°N, 80.1121°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Venango is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 16323, 16440.

Venango occupies a rugged expanse of the Allegheny Plateau, where the earth rises and falls in long, muscular swells of shale and sandstone. It lies 25.9 miles southeast of Meadville, PA (from Meadville, PA: bearing 135°T), and is situated 6.4 miles southwest of Oil City. The Lower Twomile Run carves a narrow, persistent path through the local topography, its waters moving with a deliberate, cold clarity that defines the drainage of the immediate terrain. Sunlight here often filters through a dense canopy, casting elongated, shifting shadows that emphasize the deep, muted greens of the surrounding woodlands. Beyond the immediate canopy, the land opens into quiet stretches of pasture and thicket, maintaining a distance of ninety-one miles from the distant silhouettes of the Allegheny Mountains. This landscape remains protected by its designation within the Allegheny, Pennsylvania Wild and Scenic River, a status that preserves the quiet integrity of the woods and the slow, seasonal pulse of the local environment.

Venango retains the quiet, industrious character of a place built on the foundations of extraction and forest labor, where the remnants of earlier resource-based economies linger in the layout of the roads and the scale of the buildings. Residents often look toward the nearby Clear Creek State Forest Kennerdell Tract to mark the changing seasons, as the timber stands serve as a persistent backdrop to the domestic rhythms of daily life. While the influence of larger industrial centers like Pittsburgh remains a peripheral memory, the local economy here is anchored by the land itself, drawing sustenance from the soil and the timber rather than the heavy smoke of the past. The presence of Haggerty Hollow five miles away provides a natural boundary to the local territory, reinforcing a sense of enclosure that keeps the pace of life measured and deliberate. On quiet evenings, the air carries a crisp, earthen scent, suggesting a geography that has remained largely indifferent to the frantic pace of the modern world.

About This Venango Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Venango, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.77272, -80.112074. 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 Venango includes the ZIP code (16323, 16440), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Venango County (Franklin), and school district assignment (Penncrest 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.