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Franklintown Pennsylvania Map

Explore Franklintown, 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 Franklintown, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Franklintown, Pennsylvania Map

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

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	Franklintown
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	York County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.07676
Longitude	-77.028311
Population	518
Density	784.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	17323, 17019
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	York
School District	Northern York County School District

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About Franklintown, Pennsylvania

Franklintown is a locality in York County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 518. The population density is 784.3 people per km². Franklintown is located at 40.0768°N, 77.0283°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Franklintown is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 17323, 17019.

Franklintown occupies a quiet expanse of land where the earth rises and falls in long, rhythmic swells of limestone and clay. It lies 12.1 miles southeast of Carlisle, PA (from Carlisle, PA: bearing 135°T), and is situated 9.6 miles south of Mechanicsburg. The horizon to the west is dominated by the distant, hazy silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which anchor the sky while the low-lying terrain remains defined by the steady, persistent flow of the North Branch Bermudian Creek. Within the immediate borders of the settlement, the Municipal Park Expansion provides a patch of managed green that serves as a communal lung for the residents. Light moves across the fields here with a heavy, golden quality in the late afternoon, catching the edges of the hardwoods and illuminating the dust kicked up by the wind across the open acreage.

Franklintown maintains a pace dictated by the legacy of its agrarian roots, a history etched into the sturdy foundations of the older masonry that still marks the center. While the nearby influence of larger regional economies pulls at the periphery, the local character remains defined by a modest independence and the slow, deliberate work of those who tend the land. Residents move between the quiet domesticity of their lives and the broader shifts of the region, occasionally venturing toward Lake Meade for a change in the scale of the landscape. Life here does not demand attention, but rather rewards the patient observer who notices how the evening shadows lengthen across the grass, grounding the identity of Franklintown in the simple, unpretentious reality of the soil.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Municipal Park Expansion (Local Recreation) — 0.1 mi, 152° SE
Archie Hess Memorial Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 155° SE
State Game Land 243 (State Resource Management Area) — 0.3 mi, 203° SW
Franklin Township Park (Local Park) — 1.7 mi, 268° W
State Game Land 242 (State Resource Management Area) — 2.7 mi, 083° E
White Rocks Acquisition (Local Recreation) — 4.2 mi, 316° NW
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 4.2 mi, 316° NW · 110k acres
White Rocks Land Acquisition (Conservation Area) — 4.3 mi, 316° NW
Eastern Museum of MotorSports Racing (Museum) — 4.8 mi, 217° SW
Center Point Knob (Monument) — 5.4 mi, 309° NW
Parmer Hall (Arts Centre) — 5.8 mi, 019° N
Miller Auditorium (Arts Centre) — 5.8 mi, 020° N
Parmer Cinema (B 137) (Cinema) — 5.9 mi, 020° N
Gifford Pinchot State Park (State Park) — 6.0 mi, 090° E
The Oakes Museum of Natural History (Museum) — 6.0 mi, 021° N
York Springs (Monument) — 6.5 mi, 229° SW
Allenberry Playhouse (Theatre) — 6.9 mi, 318° NW
Old Toboggan Run Rocks (Historic Ruins) — 7.4 mi, 095° E
Outdoor Classroom (Theatre) — 7.6 mi, 012° N
Gettysburg Campaign (Monument) — 10.3 mi, 189° S
Liberation Pointe (Public Artwork) — 11.4 mi, 322° NW
Thornwald Park--entrance-exit (Viewpoint) — 11.9 mi, 311° NW
Kings Gap State Park (State Park) — 12.0 mi, 274° W
The Garden Gallery (Gallery) — 12.1 mi, 316° NW
The Trout Gallery (Gallery) — 12.3 mi, 314° NW
Cave Hill Nature Center (Nature Reserve) — 13.1 mi, 320° NW
West Shore Theater (Cinema) — 13.5 mi, 040° NE
End of the Line (Historic Ruins) — 14.7 mi, 125° SE
James C. Nelson Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 32.9 mi, 341° N

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