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2023 Map of Snow Shoe

Name: 2023 Topographic Map of Snow Shoe
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2023
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2023

About this map

Snow Shoe serves as the focal point of this Centre County landscape, situated where the high ridges of the Allegheny Front meet the drainage basins of the Beech Creek system. The area is characterized by a network of specialized routes, including the Panther Snowmobile Trails Trl, which navigate the complex topography around Big Fork Hill and Little Fork Hill. Settlement patterns here are distinctively clustered, with neighborhoods like Old Side and Poorman Side suggesting a lineage tied to the region’s coal mining and industrial past.

Genealogists will find a high concentration of religious and memorial sites within a small radius, including the Dormition of the Mother of God Byzantine Cem and Saint Marys Catholic Cem. These sites, along with the nearby village of Clarence, reflect the diverse ethnic history of the workers who settled along the North Fork Beech Creek. The map also traces intricate forest and service roads like Last Stripping Rd, providing a record of land use and resource extraction in the mountains.