Matamoras Pennsylvania Map

About Matamoras, Pennsylvania

Matamoras is a locality in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,362. The population density is 1316.0 people per km². Matamoras is located at 41.3666°N, 74.6997°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Matamoras is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 17032, 18336.

Matamoras occupies a deliberate stillness where the land begins to rise toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It lies 11.2 miles west-northwest of West Hanover, PA (from West Hanover, PA: bearing 298°T), and is situated 6.7 miles north of Marysville. Powells Creek cuts a quiet path through the local terrain, its waters moving with a deliberate, low-voiced urgency toward the wider regional drainage. To the west, the landscape deepens into the shadows of Bucks Valley, while the surrounding woods hold the dense, cooling silence of an older Pennsylvania. The light here at dusk possesses a singular quality, turning the brickwork and clapboard surfaces into shades of muted amber and cooling slate, as if the day itself were settling into the earth for a long, necessary rest.

Matamoras carries the weight of a frontier history that has long since smoothed into the steady, predictable rhythm of a modern regional hub. While the economy once leaned heavily upon the transit of goods and the labor of the surrounding woods, the proximity of State Game Land 254 now draws those who prefer the quietude of the brush to the noise of the interior. Residents often move with a measured awareness of the terrain, crossing the paths that eventually lead toward the Victoria Trail or venturing further toward the quiet edges of Wildwood Lake. Life in Matamoras remains defined by this balance, where the industrious, pragmatic spirit of the commonwealth finds expression in the careful maintenance of a porch or the patient, seasonal cycles of a garden.

About This Matamoras Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Matamoras, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.366596, -74.699671. 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 Matamoras includes the ZIP code (17032, 18336), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Dauphin County (Harrisburg), and school district assignment (Delaware Valley 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.