Explore Merchantville, New Jersey, 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 Merchantville, New Jersey. 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 New Jersey 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 Merchantville.
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 | Merchantville |
| State | New Jersey (NJ) |
| County | Camden County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 39.950222 |
| Longitude | -75.050337 |
| Population | 3,820 |
| Density | 2487.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 08109 |
| Area Code | 856, 609 |
| County Seat | Camden |
| School District | Merchantville Borough School District |
Merchantville occupies a quiet, inland stretch of level terrain where the heavy, humid air of late summer settles over Victorian porches and mature, thick-canopied oaks. The landscape here favors the subtle, unremarkable grace of flat plains, where the horizon remains defined by the silhouettes of rooftops and the steady, quiet growth of gardens rather than the jagged peaks of Sandy Ridge, which loom far beyond the reach of a day’s walk. Water moves with a deliberate, sluggish patience through the nearby Cooper River, feeding the quiet expanse of Cooper River Lake just a mile away, while the soil beneath the streets holds the memory of a time before the sprawl of modern transit. At the very center of this stillness lies Johnson Cemetary, a place where the earth preserves the names of those who first cleared the timber and laid the foundation for the grid of streets that still organizes the passage of time.
Merchantville carries the weight of a long-standing identity built upon the steady rhythm of a professional, residential life that has persisted for generations. Commerce here does not roar, but rather hums through the local storefronts and the daily movement of people commuting toward the distant, unseen energy of League Island or the far-off rush of the Falls of Schuylkill. The economy functions as a quiet gear in the machinery of the region, reflecting a character forged by those who sought a reprieve from the dense, industrial clamor of the surrounding corridor. Even as the modern world presses in with its urgency, the residents of Merchantville maintain a deliberate pace, finding a particular beauty in the way the low sun catches the weathered brick of the older municipal buildings or the way the evening light lingers on the quiet lawns, grounding the inhabitant in a place that feels purposefully removed from the chaotic, shifting currents of the wider world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Merchantville, New Jersey. Coordinates: 39.950222, -75.050337. 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 Merchantville includes the ZIP code (08109), telephone area code (856, 609), county seat of Camden County (Camden), and school district assignment (Merchantville Borough School District).
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. |