Lattimer Pennsylvania Map

About Lattimer, Pennsylvania

Lattimer is a locality in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 567. The population density is 956.0 people per km². Lattimer is located at 40.9940°N, 75.9613°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 18234.

Lattimer occupies a rugged expanse of the Allegheny Plateau, where the landscape is defined by the persistent, dark currents of Little Black Creek as it winds through the broken, uneven terrain. It lies 2.6 miles north-northeast of Hazleton, PA (from Hazleton, PA: bearing 16°T), and is situated 3.0 miles northeast of West Hazleton. This landscape is marked by the deep, shadowed contours of Hells Kitchen three miles away, while the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Pocono Mountains rim the horizon like a jagged promise of higher ground. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek, the earth gives way to the dense, quiet timber stands of Pinchot State Forest, a vast expanse that acts as a green lung for the region. On summer afternoons, the light catches the silt in the water, turning the creek into a ribbon of tarnished silver that cuts through the brush, indifferent to the hard, gray rock beneath its bed.

Lattimer retains the heavy, soot-stained memory of the anthracite coal industry, a legacy that lingers in the weathered geometry of its architecture and the quiet, stoic disposition of its streets. The economy once turned entirely on the extraction of coal from the earth’s deep, cooling veins, an era that left behind a distinct cultural austerity and a profound sense of communal resilience. Two miles away, the quiet surface of Lake Irena mirrors the changing sky, providing a muted contrast to the industrial hardness that once dictated the pace of life here. Today, the rhythm of Lattimer is measured not by the whistle of the mine, but by the slow, steady movement of the wind through the trees and the persistent, low-frequency rush of the water against the stones of the creek.

About This Lattimer Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lattimer, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.993973, -75.961313. 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 Lattimer includes the ZIP code (18234), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Luzerne County (Wilkes-Barre), and school district assignment (Hazleton 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.