Jamestown Pennsylvania Map

About Jamestown, Pennsylvania

Jamestown is a locality in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 582. The population density is 269.8 people per km². Jamestown is located at 41.4848°N, 80.4376°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Jamestown is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 15946, 16134.

Jamestown holds a quiet vigil over the banks of the Lehigh River, where the water cuts a persistent, obsidian path through the terrestrial fold. It lies 15.6 miles northwest of Northampton, PA (from Northampton, PA: bearing 314°T), and is situated 6.0 miles west-northwest of Palmerton. This inland corridor is defined by the Mahoning Valley, a low-slung expanse that catches the heavy, golden light of late afternoon, casting long shadows across the fields that stretch toward the Lehighton Reservoirs. Beyond the immediate terrain, the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Pocono Mountains provide a jagged, permanent horizon, anchoring the region in a landscape of sturdy earth and encroaching woodland. The air here carries the faint, crisp scent of dampened soil and turning leaves, a reminder that the Delaware-Lehigh State Experimental Forest remains a watchful presence just over the ridge.

Jamestown preserves the steady, rhythmic pulse of a place shaped by the industry of earlier generations, where the hardscrabble legacy of the local soil dictates the pace of the morning. While the echoes of past commerce still linger in the architecture of the older streets, the modern economy leans into a slower, more deliberate cadence, supported by the proximity of Colonel Jacob Weiss Park, where the community finds a patch of managed green space for reflection. The residents move with an unforced familiarity, navigating the transition between the working hours and the stillness of dusk, when the river reflects the graying sky. Life in Jamestown is measured not by the velocity of the outside world, but by the subtle shifts in the seasons that transform the valley floor from a vibrant, humid green to a muted, skeletal brown.

About This Jamestown Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Jamestown, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.484776, -80.437569. 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 Jamestown includes the ZIP code (15946, 16134), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Carbon County (Jim Thorpe), and school district assignment (Jamestown 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.