Explore Douglassville, 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 Douglassville, 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 Douglassville.
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 | Douglassville |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Berks County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.257871 |
| Longitude | -75.726301 |
| Population | 518 |
| Density | 310.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 19518 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | Reading |
| School District | Daniel Boone Area School District |
Douglassville anchors itself firmly within the verdant, rolling landscape of eastern Pennsylvania, where the insistent movement of Leaf Creek carves a quiet path through the local topography. It lies 4.1 miles west-northwest of Pottstown, PA (from Pottstown, PA: bearing 282°T), and is situated 8.1 miles west-southwest of New Hanover. The Schuylkill River Greenways Property provides an expansive, protected corridor for this terrain, grounding the area in a natural stillness that persists despite the modern pace of life. While the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains occasionally punctuates the far horizon, the immediate environment remains defined by the fertile earth and the transition toward the Oley Valley. At dusk, the light softens against the fields, casting long, amber shadows that turn the patches of woodland into deep, quiet pools of color, suggesting a landscape that has long provided a steady, reliable rhythm to those who inhabit it.
History in Douglassville remains tethered to the early patterns of settlement that favored the proximity of water and the potential of the surrounding soil. The economy, once deeply rooted in agricultural pursuits that defined the character of the region, has shifted into a modern mosaic of commerce and residential living, though the weight of the past lingers in the older structures that persist among newer developments. Residents might spend their afternoons wandering the nearby Mill Creek Trail or seeking a moment of repose near the Amity Township Athletic Club Pool, finding the same contentment in these local spaces that their predecessors found in the clearing of the land. This sense of continuity, where the practical necessities of the present day meet the enduring persistence of the geography, allows Douglassville to maintain a distinct, self-possessed identity that feels both grounded and entirely its own.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Douglassville, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.257871, -75.726301. 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 Douglassville includes the ZIP code (19518), 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 (Daniel Boone 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. |