Explore Glen Rock, 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 Glen Rock, 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 Glen Rock.
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 | Glen Rock |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | York County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 39.793158 |
| Longitude | -76.73025 |
| Population | 2,121 |
| Density | 1022.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 17327 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | York |
| School District | Southern York County School District |
Glen Rock anchors itself firmly within the narrow, limestone-heavy floor of the Glen Rock Valley, where the landscape is defined by the persistent, winding path of the South Branch Codorus Creek. It lies 11.7 miles south of York, PA (from York, PA: bearing 181°T), and is situated 10.0 miles southwest of Red Lion. The terrain here rises in steep, wooded slopes that pinch the valley tight, creating a corridor where the air often holds the cool, damp weight of the creek’s passage. While the distant horizon occasionally silhouettes the faint, hazy rise of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the immediate environment is one of intimate, vertical enclosure. Sunlight lingers briefly on the valley floor, filtered through the dense canopy of trees that press toward the water, while the nearby Glen Rock Borough Park offers a quiet clearing where the seasonal shift of leaves marks the passage of time more clearly than any clock.
Industrial memory persists in the brickwork and rail-side architecture of Glen Rock, recalling a period when the movement of freight and the output of local mills dictated the daily pulse of the valley. Though the economy has evolved from its early reliance on the iron and rail industries, the structural bones of the place remain, with houses clinging to the hillsides in a manner that suggests a deliberate, hard-won permanence. Residents look toward the wider region for modern commerce, though the local character retains a distinct, self-contained gravity that keeps the pace of life measured and deliberate. Even as the modern world encroaches, the proximity of water—whether at the creek’s edge or the slightly more distant waters of Lake Redman—ensures that the character of the land remains tethered to the slow, subterranean shifts of the earth and the steady flow of the stream.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Glen Rock, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 39.793158, -76.73025. 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 Glen Rock includes the ZIP code (17327), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of York County (York), and school district assignment (Southern York 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. |