Explore Mount Jackson, 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 Mount Jackson, 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 Mount Jackson.
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 | Mount Jackson |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Lawrence County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.962283 |
| Longitude | -80.435345 |
| Population | 590 |
| Density | 138.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 16102 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | New Castle |
| School District | Mohawk Area School District |
Mount Jackson sits upon the quiet, heavy earth of the Allegheny Plateau, where the land holds the weight of deep time in its steady, unyielding terrain. It lies 5.4 miles west-southwest of New Castle, PA (from New Castle, PA: bearing 238°T), and is situated 4.4 miles southwest of Oakwood. Hickory Run carves a narrow, persistent path through the landscape, its waters moving with a deliberate, low-voiced intensity that defines the local topography. At the edge of the community, Municipal Park offers a space of stillness where the light at dusk settles in long, bruised purples across the grass, grounding the air in a cool, damp silence. Beyond the immediate view, the distant, hazy blue of the Appalachian Mountains marks the horizon like a faint, serrated memory of a more violent geology.
Mount Jackson persists as a testament to the quiet industry of the interior, where the rhythm of the day is dictated by the slow, mechanical pulse of regional transit and the remnants of agrarian life. History here is not a grand monument but a series of small, weathered adjustments made to the soil, reflecting a heritage defined by the resourceful labor of those who settled the inland plains. While the roar of larger industrial centers remains a distant vibration, the local economy keeps its own steady pace, favoring the persistence of the individual over the clamor of the masses. Life in Mount Jackson unfolds with a particular, patient gravity, marked by the changing shadows of the trees and the reliable, seasonal return of the landscape to its most essential, dormant self.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mount Jackson, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.962283, -80.435345. 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 Mount Jackson includes the ZIP code (16102), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Lawrence County (New Castle), and school district assignment (Mohawk 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. |