Lime Ridge Pennsylvania Map

About Lime Ridge, Pennsylvania

Lime Ridge is a locality in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 823. The population density is 282.2 people per km². Lime Ridge is located at 41.0261°N, 76.3501°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 18055, 17815.

Lime Ridge occupies a steady, terrestrial expanse where the Susquehanna River carves a deliberate path through the earth, marking the land with a weight that defines the horizon. It lies 5.8 miles west-southwest of Berwick, PA (from Berwick, PA: bearing 252°T), and is situated 6.3 miles east-northeast of Bloomsburg. The landscape unfolds in a series of earthen shelves and depressions, characterized by a quiet stability that reaches toward the distant Appalachian Mountains, visible as a faint, serrated bruise against the western sky. In the cool hours of late afternoon, the light filters through the canopy of Columbia Park, casting long, lean shadows that stretch across the soil with a patient, unhurried grace. Three miles away, the depressions of Fester Hollow hold the morning mist, while the nearby Briar Creek Reservoir acts as a dark, glass-still mirror for the changing seasons, reflecting the transition from the stark skeletal winter to the heavy, humid green of summer.

Lime Ridge carries the quiet residue of an industrial past, where the labor of earlier generations remains etched into the very topography of the region. The local economy has shifted from the labor-intensive demands of coal and extraction toward a more measured pace, though the memory of those anthracite-stained days lingers in the sturdy, unadorned architecture and the pragmatic disposition of the people. Life in Lime Ridge moves with the rhythmic consistency of the river, a steady flow that ignores the frantic acceleration of the modern world in favor of a grounded, localized persistence. Men and women navigate their days against a backdrop of limestone and deep-rooted woodland, finding a particular, modest satisfaction in the routine maintenance of their homes and the preservation of the open spaces that define the borders of their lives.

About This Lime Ridge Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lime Ridge, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.026078, -76.350118. 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 Lime Ridge includes the ZIP code (18055, 17815), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Columbia County (Bloomsburg), and school district assignment (Central Columbia 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.