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Glendon Pennsylvania Map

Explore Glendon, 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 Glendon, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Glendon, Pennsylvania Map

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

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

Latitude	40.657583
Longitude	-75.239993
Population	373
Density	234.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	18042
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Easton
School District	Wilson Area School District

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About Glendon, Pennsylvania

Glendon is a locality in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 373. The population density is 234.2 people per km². Glendon is located at 40.6576°N, 75.2400°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Glendon is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 18042.

Glendon occupies a narrow, rugged corridor where the earth buckles into the steep, shadowed contours of Morgan Valley. It lies 1.7 miles south-southwest of Easton, PA (from Easton, PA: bearing 208°T), and is situated 7.6 miles east-northeast of Bethlehem. The Lehigh River carves a deep, serpentine path through this terrain, its dark currents pressing against the base of the hills as they have for eons, indifferent to the small human dwellings that cling to the slopes above. At dusk, the light here turns a bruised, metallic violet, catching the jagged edges of the surrounding geology and casting long, cooling shadows across the lower reaches of the valley floor. Far to the northwest, the hazy, blue-tinged silhouette of the Pocono Mountains rises against the horizon, providing a distant, unmoving boundary to a landscape defined by the relentless geology of the ridge-and-valley province.

Glendon carries the weight of a long industrial memory, its economy once tethered to the iron furnaces and the heavy, black grit of the nineteenth-century coal age that permeated the regional air. Today, the town maintains a quieter, more deliberate pace, centered around the modest public space of Poswistilo Pavilion, where the community gathers in the quiet intervals of the day. The influence of the Lehigh River remains the primary pulse of the locality, serving as a reminder of the raw labor and water-borne transit that first knit these scattered settlements together. While the distant Green Pond offers a singular, quiet respite from the sharper angles of the valley, the character of the place remains anchored to the endurance of its stone foundations and the stubborn, vertical ambition of its hillsides.

Nearby Outdoor Places

D & L Trail (Local Recreation) — 0.3 mi, 303° NW
Riverview Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 326° NW
Smith's Island (Local Recreation) — 0.3 mi, 274° W
Dam Vista (Viewpoint) — 0.3 mi, 295° NW
Lehigh Canal Chain Bridge (Historic Ruins) — 0.5 mi, 240° SW
Hugh Moore Historical Park, Delaware & Lehigh Trail (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 012° N
Island Park (Historic Ruins) — 0.8 mi, 245° SW
Delaware Canal State Park (State Park) — 1.0 mi, 019° N
Rt. 33 Access (State Resource Management Area) — 1.8 mi, 243° SW
Delaware River Access State Park (State Park) — 2.6 mi, 114° SE
Gallery on Fourth (Gallery) — 2.8 mi, 033° NE
Crayola Experience (Attraction) — 2.8 mi, 035° NE
Dr. Traill Green Monument (Monument) — 2.8 mi, 023° NE
The Journey Home (Arts Centre) — 2.8 mi, 038° NE
Larry Holmes Statue (Monument) — 2.9 mi, 039° NE
AR Workshop (Gallery) — 2.9 mi, 015° N
Brick + Mortar Design Studio (Gallery) — 2.9 mi, 015° N
Alpha Grasslands Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 105° E
Delaware River Railroad Excursions (Attraction) — 3.0 mi, 045° NE
Christopher Columbus Statue (Monument) — 3.0 mi, 037° NE
Weiss Theater (Theatre) — 3.1 mi, 032° NE
Alpha Grasslands Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 3.1 mi, 091° E
Transcendence (Public Artwork) — 3.3 mi, 029° NE
Warren Trail (State Recreation Area) — 3.7 mi, 038° NE
Lipkin Theatre (Theatre) — 4.5 mi, 283° W
Regal Northampton Cinema 14 (Cinema) — 4.8 mi, 331° NW
Musconetcong River Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.1 mi, 136° SE
The Artsy Palette (Arts Centre) — 5.7 mi, 058° NE
Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.1 mi, 350° N · 11k acres
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 14.3 mi, 347° N · 110k acres

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