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Briar Creek Pennsylvania Map

Explore Briar Creek, 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 Briar Creek, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Briar Creek, Pennsylvania Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Briar Creek, 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 Briar Creek.

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	Briar Creek
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Columbia County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	41.045918
Longitude	-76.282159
Population	597
Density	139.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	18603, 18631
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Bloomsburg
School District	Berwick Area School District

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About Briar Creek, Pennsylvania

Briar Creek is a locality in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 597. The population density is 139.6 people per km². Briar Creek is located at 41.0459°N, 76.2822°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Briar Creek is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 18603, 18631.

Briar Creek defines the landscape with its namesake waterway, a modest current that carves a deliberate path through the Pennsylvania terrain. It lies 2.6 miles west-southwest of Berwick, PA (from Berwick, PA: bearing 257°T), and is situated 9.5 miles east-northeast of Bloomsburg. The ground rises into modest, wooded elevations that suggest the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains far to the west. A mile away, the surface of Briar Creek Reservoir remains a still, reflective glass, catching the shifting amber light of late afternoon as it filters through the dense canopy of deciduous trees. Below the slopes, the earth transitions into the quiet depressions of Kashinka Hollow, where the air holds a cooler, damp weight that lingers long after the sun has retreated behind the ridge line.

Briar Creek occupies a quiet corner of the region where the legacy of industry has softened into the routine of daily maintenance and local commerce. Life here moves in accordance with the seasonal cycle of the land, centered largely around the public grounds of Ber Vaughn Park, where the community gathers under the shade of mature oaks. The economy reflects a long-standing reliance on the surrounding fields and the infrastructure of the interior, favoring a steady, industrious pace over the frenetic energy of larger centers. History persists here not in grand monuments, but in the enduring utility of the land and the way the shadows lengthen across the quiet streets at dusk, marking the passage of another day in a place that values its own deliberate, internal rhythm.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ber Vaughn Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 054° NE
Test Track Park (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 112° E
Orange Street Baseball Field (Local Recreation) — 1.9 mi, 079° E
Berwick Historic Society (Museum) — 2.5 mi, 072° E
State Game Land 058 (State Resource Management Area) — 3.5 mi, 186° S
State Game Land 055 (State Resource Management Area) — 4.0 mi, 004° N
Truth and Virtue (Public Artwork) — 8.9 mi, 253° W
Gross Auditorium (Theatre) — 9.2 mi, 252° W
Bloomsburg Town Park Memorial (Monument) — 9.5 mi, 246° SW
Scenic View (Viewpoint) — 10.2 mi, 048° NE
Bloomsburg Fair (Attraction) — 10.3 mi, 251° W
Sugarloaf Massacre Grave (Monument) — 12.8 mi, 108° E
Catawissa Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 13.8 mi, 133° SE
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 15.1 mi, 107° E
Impulse (Attraction) — 16.2 mi, 225° SW
Whipper (Attraction) — 16.2 mi, 225° SW
Kozmo's Kurves (Attraction) — 16.2 mi, 225° SW
XD Theater (Cinema) — 16.3 mi, 225° SW
Time Machine Theatre (Theatre) — 16.4 mi, 226° SW
Knoebels Carousel Museum (Museum) — 16.4 mi, 225° SW
Knoebels History Museum (Museum) — 16.4 mi, 226° SW
Pennsylvania Mining Museum (Museum) — 16.4 mi, 226° SW
Ricketts Glenn State Park (State Park) — 16.7 mi, 004° N
Mahanoy Area Historical Society (Museum) — 17.7 mi, 156° SE
Nescopeck State Park (State Park) — 18.3 mi, 087° E
St. Joseph's Fine Art Studio (Gallery) — 18.5 mi, 201° S
Sgl 141 (State Recreation Area) — 23.7 mi, 118° SE
Kettle Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 31.3 mi, 323° NW
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 32.5 mi, 149° SE · 110k acres

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