Explore Bernville, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bernville, 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 Bernville.
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 | Bernville |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Berks County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.433426 |
| Longitude | -76.112165 |
| Population | 905 |
| Density | 822.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 19506 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | Reading |
| School District | Tulpehocken Area School District |
Bernville emerges from the Pennsylvania landscape as a collection of quiet, slate-roofed structures caught in the amber light of late afternoon. It lies 10.6 miles northwest of Wyomissing, PA (from Wyomissing, PA: bearing 313°T), and is situated 8.8 miles northwest of Whitfield. Northkill Creek winds its way through the periphery, carving a subtle path through the earth that dictates the local topography more than any grand geologic upheaval. The air here holds the damp, cool weight of the inland soil, carrying the scent of damp leaves and turned fields that stretch toward the horizon. Though the distant Appalachian Mountains appear as faint, indigo smudges against the sky, the immediate world belongs to the expansive, quiet fields and the reflective expanse of Blue Marsh Lake, which anchors the local horizon.
Bernville retains the steady, industrious pulse of a region shaped by generations of agrarian heritage and the slow, deliberate work of the inland interior. Residents often pass their time in the Blue Marsh Recreation Area, where the land serves as a communal living room, or they traverse the paths of Skinners Loops when the season turns the canopy into a brittle, golden mosaic. While the bustle of larger industrial hubs remains a distant memory of the state’s past, the economy here clings to a modest, grounded pace, favoring local commerce and the maintenance of a rural character that refuses to be hurried. History in Bernville is not found in grand monuments, but in the persistent, unchanging rhythm of a place that remains stubbornly itself, far from the influence of the coast and defined instead by the quiet, daily grace of the valley.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bernville, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.433426, -76.112165. 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 Bernville includes the ZIP code (19506), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Berks County (Reading), and school district assignment (Tulpehocken Area 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. |