Glendon Pennsylvania Map

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.

About This Glendon Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Glendon, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.657583, -75.239993. 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 Glendon includes the ZIP code (18042), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Northampton County (Easton), and school district assignment (Wilson Area School District).

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.