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Bell Acres Pennsylvania Map

Explore Bell Acres, 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 Bell Acres, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Bell Acres, Pennsylvania Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bell Acres, 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 Bell Acres.

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	Bell Acres
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Allegheny County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.590067
Longitude	-80.166448
Population	1,505
Density	108.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	15143
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Pittsburgh
School District	Quaker Valley School District

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About Bell Acres, Pennsylvania

Bell Acres is a locality in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,505. The population density is 108.6 people per km². Bell Acres is located at 40.5901°N, 80.1664°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Bell Acres is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 15143.

Bell Acres holds a quiet prominence upon the uneven terrain of the Allegheny Plateau, where the earth rises and falls in long, muscular swells of shale and clay. It lies 4.2 miles west of Franklin Park, PA (from Franklin Park, PA: bearing 276°T), and is situated 7.7 miles west of McCandless. The landscape is defined by the deep incision of Coony Hollow, a shadowed fold in the ground that funnels the damp, heavy air of the interior toward the low-lying basin. Just a mile away, the dark, rhythmic passage of Little Sewickley Creek cuts through the woodland, its banks slick with silt and tangled with the roots of sycamores that lean toward the water’s edge. Three miles distant, the still, reflective surface of Sechlers Lake serves as a silent anchor for the local hydrology, mirroring the heavy, gray skies that often press down upon the canopy. Bell Acres Nature Park provides a necessary span of managed wildness, where the brush grows dense and the deer move with a cautious, stiff-legged grace through the undergrowth.

Bell Acres maintains a character forged by the slow, deliberate pace of rural life, far removed from the industrial clamor that once defined the river valleys to the south. The economy here has shifted away from the heavy labor of the past, favoring instead the quiet stewardship of private land and the maintenance of a sprawling, semi-rural aesthetic. In the distance, the faint, jagged silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains suggests a boundary beyond which the world grows more rugged and steep, though here the land remains dominated by old farms and the encroachment of suburban expansion. The local atmosphere is marked by the smell of woodsmoke in the autumn and the persistent, damp chill that rises from the soil during the long months of winter. Life in Bell Acres proceeds without fanfare, governed by the turning of the seasons and the steady, unyielding pressure of the forest that watches from the edge of every pasture.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Bell Acres Nature Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 318° NW
Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 0.3 mi, 229° SW
Little Sewickley Creek Watershed Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 0.3 mi, 184° S
Devils Hollow (Conservation Area) — 0.4 mi, 172° S
Seeickley Heights Borough Park (Local Park) — 0.9 mi, 177° S
Linbrook Woodlands (Conservation Area) — 1.1 mi, 028° NE
Fern Hollow Greenbelt Acquisition (Private Recreation) — 1.6 mi, 148° SE
Open Space (Local Recreation) — 2.5 mi, 160° S
State Game Land 203 (State Resource Management Area) — 2.6 mi, 055° NE
Fern Hollow Nature Center (Attraction) — 3.2 mi, 166° S
The Edgeworth Club (Attraction) — 3.2 mi, 200° S
Reach for the Stars Dance Studio (Arts Centre) — 3.2 mi, 267° W
Ambridge Honor Roll (Monument) — 3.3 mi, 273° W
Totus Tuus (Public Artwork) — 3.4 mi, 068° E
Center for Young Musicians (Arts Centre) — 3.5 mi, 192° S
Great Republic Monument (Monument) — 3.6 mi, 231° SW
Shousetown Boatyard (Monument) — 3.6 mi, 231° SW
Former Nike Missile Launch Site Pl-71 (Historic Ruins) — 7.3 mi, 179° S
Cantellops Art Gallery (Gallery) — 8.1 mi, 101° E
Sample Schoolhouse (Museum) — 8.1 mi, 022° N
Thompson Drive Park (Nature Reserve) — 8.3 mi, 122° SE
North Park Meadow Overlook (Viewpoint) — 9.0 mi, 088° E
Raccoon Creek State Park (State Park) — 11.3 mi, 241° SW
Depreciation Lands Museum (Museum) — 11.4 mi, 088° E
Thornburg Theater (Theatre) — 11.7 mi, 158° S
Mattress Factory (Museum) — 12.3 mi, 139° SE
Moonshot Museum (Museum) — 12.3 mi, 141° SE
Merrick Art Gallery (Museum) — 12.4 mi, 323° NW
Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.3 mi, 280° W · 6,562 acres
Hillman State Park (State Park) — 14.4 mi, 229° SW

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