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James City Pennsylvania Map

Explore James City, 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 James City, Pennsylvania

How to Use This James City, Pennsylvania Map

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

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	James City
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Elk County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	41.620062
Longitude	-78.838921
Population	207
Density	114.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	16734
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Ridgway
School District	Kane Area School District

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About James City, Pennsylvania

James City is a locality in Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 207. The population density is 114.2 people per km². James City is located at 41.6201°N, 78.8389°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16734.

James City occupies a high, quiet plateau where the air holds a permanent, cool crispness that seems to sharpen the edges of the surrounding timberland. It lies 19.6 miles northwest of Saint Marys, PA (from Saint Marys, PA: bearing 313°T), and is situated 3.3 miles south-southwest of Kane. The East Branch Tionesta Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the landscape, its dark waters moving steadily over a bed of smoothed stone and silt. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek, the terrain rises into dense, tangled expanses of the Allegheny National Forest, a vast stretch of hardwoods and pines that blankets the horizon in shades of deep, somber green. On clear days, the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Allegheny Mountains suggest a world much larger than the immediate forest, yet here, the land feels contained and intimate, defined by the slow, rhythmic transition of light through the canopy and the persistent, low-frequency hum of the woods.

History in James City is measured in the remnants of industry that once pulled its wealth from the deep timber and the earth beneath. The local economy, having shifted away from the intensive resource extraction of earlier eras, now finds its cadence in the quiet persistence of those who remain, maintaining a lifestyle that favors the slow turn of seasons over the frantic pace of the outside world. Those seeking the solitude of the woods often traverse the Twin Lakes Trail, finding a path that leads away from the familiar and into the quiet interior of the forest. While the memory of past labor lingers in the weathered architecture and the layout of the streets, the current life of James City is defined by its isolation, a place where the proximity to the wilderness dictates the character of every day, from the frost that clings to the windows at dawn to the stillness that settles over the valley as the sun dips below the ridge.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Allegheny National Forest (National Forest) — 0.5 mi, 270° W · 514k acres
Kane Experimental Forest (Recreation Easement) — 1.8 mi, 110° E
Knox & Kane Railroad Corridor (Conservation Area) — 2.1 mi, 175° S
Evergreen Park (Local Park) — 2.9 mi, 024° NE
Tionesta National Natural Landmark (National Monument) — 4.1 mi, 290° W · 4,111 acres
Tionesta Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 4.1 mi, 290° W
Tionesta Scenic Area (National Scenic Byway) — 5.2 mi, 298° NW
Clarion Junction Forest (Conservation Area) — 5.7 mi, 112° E
Epstein Memorial (Monument) — 11.5 mi, 300° NW
Elk State Park (State Park) — 13.3 mi, 107° E
Clarion, Pennsylvania Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 14.3 mi, 162° S · 16k acres
Kinzua Skywalk Platform (Viewpoint) — 16.2 mi, 053° NE
Allegheny, Pennsylvania Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 17.2 mi, 330° NW · 35k acres
Kinzua Town Historical Location (Historic Ruins) — 18.0 mi, 339° N
Allegheny National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 19.2 mi, 350° N · 24k acres
Apollo Theatre (Theatre) — 19.5 mi, 133° SE
Penn-Brad Oil Museum (Museum) — 22.3 mi, 026° NE
Vietnam Memorial (Monument) — 23.9 mi, 057° NE
802 W Main St. (Attraction) — 23.9 mi, 057° NE
Judge Joseph Bouton Mansion (Attraction) — 24.0 mi, 057° NE
Byron Delano Hamlin Mansion (Attraction) — 24.0 mi, 057° NE
Taylor Cub Monument (Monument) — 24.1 mi, 021° N
302 W. Green St. (Attraction) — 24.3 mi, 057° NE
Zippo/Case Museum (Museum) — 24.4 mi, 023° NE
Warren Mall Cinemas (Cinema) — 25.0 mi, 320° NW
Marilyn Horne Museum and Exhibit Center (Museum) — 25.1 mi, 023° NE
Bradford Main Street Movie House (Cinema) — 25.2 mi, 023° NE
Quaker Ampitheatre (Theatre) — 27.1 mi, 002° N
Tyler Coke Ovens (Historic Ruins) — 30.8 mi, 148° SE
Audubon Community Nature Center (Nature Reserve) — 32.5 mi, 328° NW

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