Explore Mechanicsville, 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 Mechanicsville, 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 Mechanicsville.
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 | Mechanicsville |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Monroe County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.690826 |
| Longitude | -76.180687 |
| Population | 461 |
| Density | 546.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 17821, 18902, 19154, 18934, 17901 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | Stroudsburg |
| School District | Pottsville Area School District |
Mechanicsville occupies a quiet intersection of the Pennsylvania landscape, where the land shifts from the flat, industrious plains into the more deliberate, elevated terrain of the interior. It lies 3.1 miles east-southeast of Chestnuthill, PA (from Chestnuthill, PA: bearing 104°T), and is situated 9.8 miles southwest of Stroud. The atmosphere here possesses a particular clarity, especially when the light at dusk slants across the fields, turning the dormant grasses into thin, pale wires of gold against the darkening horizon. Only a mile away, the waters of McMichael Creek trace a slow, serpentine path through the low-lying terrain, feeding the saturated earth of the nearby Lake Mineola Marsh. Though the distant, hazy silhouette of the Pocono Mountains defines the northern skyline, the immediate surroundings remain defined by the persistent, quiet growth of the inland woods and the open, uncomplicated stretches of the local topography.
Mechanicsville maintains a character forged by the steady, modest labor of the regional economy, reflecting an era when small-scale milling and local craftsmanship dictated the pace of the calendar. The influence of the broader region is felt in the lingering focus on industrious pursuits, though the daily rhythm has long since settled into a more private, domestic cadence. Residents often look toward the nearby Poplar Valley for a sense of scale, while the presence of the Delaware-Lehigh State Experimental Forest just eleven miles away serves as a reminder of the vast, wooded wilderness that defines much of the state’s interior. Whether one is watching the seasons change near the quiet shores of Hemlock Lake or preparing for a trek along the Camelback Trail, the life of Mechanicsville remains tied to the deliberate, earthen resilience of the Pennsylvania interior.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mechanicsville, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.690826, -76.180687. 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 Mechanicsville includes the ZIP code (17821, 18902, 19154), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Monroe County (Stroudsburg), and school district assignment (Pottsville Area School District).
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. |