Explore Churchtown, 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 Churchtown, 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 Churchtown.
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 | Churchtown |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Cumberland County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.139327 |
| Longitude | -75.95321 |
| Population | 417 |
| Density | 85.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 17007, 17555 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | Carlisle |
| School District | Eastern Lancaster County School District |
Churchtown sits amidst a landscape of quiet, agrarian patience, where the horizon is defined by the steady, muted silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains rising five miles to the west. It lies 6.1 miles east-southeast of Carlisle, PA (from Carlisle, PA: bearing 114°T), and is situated 5.2 miles southwest of Mechanicsburg. Broad fields of corn and hay stretch toward the distance, broken only by the thin, silver ribbon of Yellow Breeches Creek as it meanders through the low-lying terrain just a mile from the center of the village. The air here holds a crisp, earthen clarity, especially during the long, amber hours of dusk when the light flattens against the barns and pastures, casting elongated shadows that emphasize the subtle, rhythmic swell of the land. Residents find recreation and quietude at Monroe Community Park, a space that serves as a communal anchor where the pace of the day is marked not by a clock, but by the slow rotation of the seasons across the open, inland plains.
Churchtown carries the weight of a long-settled history, its character forged by the generations of farmers and tradespeople who recognized the utility of the fertile soil and the proximity to reliable water. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the earth, with small-scale agriculture and regional commerce sustaining the identity of the people who call Churchtown home. While the modern world moves with a different intensity elsewhere, the life here is defined by a deep, enduring continuity that persists despite the shifting tides of the wider economy. There is an unmistakable solidity to the architecture and the common spaces, a reminder that the land itself—stretching toward the distant ridges—has long dictated the habits and the temperament of those who labor upon it.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Churchtown, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.139327, -75.95321. 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 Churchtown includes the ZIP code (17007, 17555), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Cumberland County (Carlisle), and school district assignment (Eastern Lancaster County 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. |