Explore Lakewood, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Lakewood, 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 Lakewood.
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 | Lakewood |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Erie County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 42.092002 |
| Longitude | -80.173673 |
| Density | N/A /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 16505, 18439 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | Erie |
Lakewood emerges from the interior expanse of Pennsylvania as a quiet settlement defined by its proximity to the massive, cooling presence of Lake Erie. It lies 1.6 miles north-northwest of Millcreek, PA (from Millcreek, PA: bearing 344°T), and is situated 5.2 miles west-southwest of Erie. The landscape here is characterized by the soft, deliberate transitions of the Allegheny Plateau, where the earth holds a deep, earthen stillness that predates the arrival of modern industry. Only two miles distant, the waters of West Branch Cascade Creek carve a narrow, insistent path through the soil, providing a constant, low-frequency hum that anchors the sensory experience of the terrain. While the distant heights of the Appalachian Mountains remain nothing more than a faint, hazy suggestion upon the horizon, the immediate environment is dominated by the sprawling greenery of Lakewood Park, which serves as the literal and social center of the local geography.
Lakewood bears the quiet, weathered imprint of generations who have navigated the shifting demands of a regional economy rooted in the land and its resources. Life here follows the steady, unpretentious cadence of a place that understands the value of the seasons, where the light at dusk catches the edges of the fields in a way that makes the familiar look suddenly, strikingly profound. Residents often traverse the Gull Point Trail to witness the landscape in its most raw, unadorned state, or travel the ten miles required to hear the persistent, percussive roar of Howard Falls. History in Lakewood is not a monument to be viewed from a distance, but a subtle layer of habit and memory, woven into the way the community maintains its own rhythm, far removed from the clamor of the coast and entirely dependent on the inland character of the plateau.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lakewood, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 42.092002, -80.173673. 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 Lakewood includes the ZIP code (16505, 18439), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Erie County (Erie), and school district assignment.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |