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Marion Heights Pennsylvania Map

Explore Marion 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 Marion Heights, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Marion Heights, Pennsylvania Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Marion 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 Marion 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	Marion Heights
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Northumberland County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.804253
Longitude	-76.464954
Population	560
Density	1413.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	17832
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Sunbury
School District	Mount Carmel Area School District

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About Marion Heights, Pennsylvania

Marion Heights is a locality in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 560. The population density is 1413.2 people per km². Marion Heights is located at 40.8043°N, 76.4650°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Marion Heights is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 17832.

Marion Heights occupies a high, rugged spine of land where the earth seems perpetually braced against the wind. It lies 13.8 miles south of Bloomsburg, PA (from Bloomsburg, PA: bearing 182°T), and is situated 5.0 miles east-northeast of Shamokin. The landscape consists of steep, uneven slopes that drop away into the deep shadows of the surrounding terrain, five miles removed from the broad expanse of Bear Valley. A cool, thin air persists here even in midsummer, and at dusk, the light turns a bruised, metallic violet that catches the sharp edges of the slate roofs. Residents find their solitude within the modest bounds of Marion Heights Borough Park, a small patch of green where the grass grows thick and unbothered by the heavy machinery of the past. Beyond the immediate clearing, the land is scarred by the long, deep memory of extraction, and Quaker Run flows quietly through the nearby gullies, carrying the runoff of a century of rain toward the hidden lowlands.

History in Marion Heights remains etched into the fractured geology of the ground, marked by the deep, hollow silence left behind by the once-thriving anthracite industry. The local economy has shifted from the frantic pulse of the collieries to a quieter, more deliberate pace, leaving the residents to cultivate their gardens in the red, iron-rich soil. At the edge of the horizon, the distant outlines of the Appalachian Mountains provide a jagged, permanent border that keeps the world at a measured remove. Life here is defined by the proximity of the Shamokin Reservoir, which holds the sky in its still surface, reflecting the slow turnover of the seasons. People maintain their homes with a stubborn, quiet pride, tending to the sturdy brickwork and porches that endure long after the whistles of the mines have faded into the stillness of the afternoon.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Terry/Miriello Stadium Complex (Local Park) — 0.5 mi, 207° SW
Veterans Memorial Road Baseball Field (Local Recreation) — 0.9 mi, 190° S
Weiser State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 1.0 mi, 001° N
Northumberland County Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area (Local Recreation) — 1.4 mi, 285° W
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 1.5 mi, 105° E
Diamondtown Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 2.5 mi, 094° E
St. Joseph's Fine Art Studio (Gallery) — 3.0 mi, 100° E
Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area (Conservation Area) — 3.8 mi, 193° S
State Game Land 084 (State Resource Management Area) — 4.2 mi, 175° S
Artisan Alley Fine Arts Gallery (Gallery) — 4.6 mi, 260° W
Silkmill Memorial (Monument) — 4.9 mi, 258° W
Silkmill bell (Monument) — 4.9 mi, 258° W
Twin Twister Slides (Attraction) — 5.4 mi, 338° N
Twister (Attraction) — 5.4 mi, 338° N
Two Slide Winders (Attraction) — 5.4 mi, 338° N
Sklooosh (Attraction) — 5.5 mi, 339° N
Knoebels Carousel Museum (Museum) — 5.6 mi, 338° N
XD Theater (Cinema) — 5.6 mi, 339° N
Time Machine Theatre (Theatre) — 5.6 mi, 338° N
Pennsylvania Mining Museum (Museum) — 5.6 mi, 337° NW
Knoebels History Museum (Museum) — 5.6 mi, 337° NW
Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine & Steam Train (Museum) — 6.2 mi, 107° E
Ashland Historical Society (Museum) — 6.8 mi, 102° E
Sgl 326 (State Recreation Area) — 9.0 mi, 113° SE
Civil War Memorial (Public Artwork) — 13.7 mi, 002° N
Gross Auditorium (Theatre) — 13.9 mi, 003° N
Locust Lake State Park (State Park) — 16.0 mi, 095° E
Swatara State Park (State Park) — 18.8 mi, 176° S
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 21.1 mi, 181° S · 110k acres

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