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Kapp Heights Pennsylvania Map

Explore Kapp Heights, 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 Kapp Heights, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Kapp Heights, Pennsylvania Map

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

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	Kapp Heights
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Northumberland County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.899808
Longitude	-76.808021
Population	877
Density	973.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	17857
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Sunbury
School District	Shikellamy School District

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About Kapp Heights, Pennsylvania

Kapp Heights is a locality in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 877. The population density is 973.0 people per km². Kapp Heights is located at 40.8998°N, 76.8080°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 17857.

Kapp Heights rises above the surrounding terrain as a persistent elevation of limestone and shale, defined by the stubborn geometry of the Allegheny Plateau. It lies 19.8 miles west-southwest of Bloomsburg, PA (from Bloomsburg, PA: bearing 249°T), and is situated 3.5 miles north-northwest of Hamilton. The landscape holds the deep, heavy silence of the inland woods, where the West Branch Susquehanna River carves a dark, rhythmic path through the earth only a mile from the residential perimeter. Beyond the immediate canopy, the distant jagged silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains marks the horizon like a charcoal sketch against the fading light. At the edge of the residential grid, Unknown Park offers a quiet expanse of untamed brush and native hardwoods that seem to breathe in tandem with the cooling evening air. The light here settles in long, bruised purples at dusk, catching the jagged edges of the ridge and turning the heavy, humid atmosphere into a lens for the coming night.

Kapp Heights maintains a temperament forged by the slow, unyielding labor of the mid-state industrial legacy, where the echoes of past anthracite extraction still inform the local character. While the economy has shifted away from the heavy mills that once anchored the regional output, the grid of the streets remains loyal to a time of shift-work whistles and coal-dusted windows. Residents move through the day with a deliberate, measured gait, finding a familiar pulse in the proximity of Buffalo Valley, a seven-mile stretch of low-lying fertile ground that has sustained the local spirit for generations. Occasional travelers might venture toward Sunshine Fines Pond, ten miles distant, to find a stillness that mirrors the town’s own guarded composure. Life in Kapp Heights is defined not by sudden change, but by the persistent, quiet endurance of a place that keeps its own counsel amidst the changing seasons of the plateau.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Unknown Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 177° S
Liberty Hollow Park (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 089° E
Shikellamy State Park (State Park) — 0.9 mi, 191° S
Shikellamy Bluffs (Conservation Area) — 1.0 mi, 178° S
Joseph Priestley House Field (Local Recreation) — 1.2 mi, 127° SE
Northumberland County Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area (Local Recreation) — 1.6 mi, 089° E
State Game Land 084 (State Resource Management Area) — 1.9 mi, 114° SE
Weiser State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 4.3 mi, 185° S
Linn Conservancy (Nature Reserve) — 5.0 mi, 275° W
AMC CLASSIC Selinsgrove 12 (Cinema) — 5.6 mi, 203° SW
Campus Theater (Cinema) — 6.0 mi, 317° NW
Lore Degenstein Art Gallery (Gallery) — 7.9 mi, 207° SW
Milton State Park (State Park) — 8.3 mi, 339° N
Art Academy of Milton (Arts Centre) — 8.6 mi, 343° N
Trevorton WWII Memorial (Monument) — 10.6 mi, 140° SE
North Franklin Colliery (Monument) — 10.7 mi, 141° SE
Turbotville Auto Museum (Museum) — 14.5 mi, 008° N
10th Ward Honor Roll (Monument) — 14.9 mi, 121° SE
Artisan Alley Fine Arts Gallery (Gallery) — 15.3 mi, 119° SE
Black Diamond (Attraction) — 15.8 mi, 095° E
Pennsylvania Mining Museum (Museum) — 15.8 mi, 095° E
Knoebels History Museum (Museum) — 15.8 mi, 095° E
Phoenix (Attraction) — 15.8 mi, 095° E
Giant Flume (Attraction) — 15.8 mi, 095° E
Tumbling Timbers (Attraction) — 15.8 mi, 095° E
Time Machine Theatre (Theatre) — 15.9 mi, 095° E
Knoebels Carousel Museum (Museum) — 15.9 mi, 095° E
Penns Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 25.6 mi, 262° W
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 31.1 mi, 176° S · 110k acres

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