Explore New Castle Northwest, 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 New Castle Northwest, 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 New Castle Northwest.
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 | New Castle Northwest |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Lawrence County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 41.0221 |
| Longitude | -80.3566 |
| Population | 1,397 |
| Density | 620.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 16105 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | New Castle |
| School District | Neshannock Township School District |
New Castle Northwest emerges from the damp, heavy earth of western Pennsylvania where the Shenango River carves a slow, deliberate path through the landscape. It lies 1.4 miles north-northwest of New Castle, PA (from New Castle, PA: bearing 339°T), and is situated 7.0 miles south of New Wilmington. The river, thick and dark with the sediment of the Allegheny Plateau, dictates the rhythm of the terrain, pulling the eye toward the low, timbered ridges that define the horizon. Light here often arrives filtered through a persistent, slate-colored haze, softening the edges of the brick storefronts and the overgrown industrial skeletons that linger in the shadows of the valley. A mile from the water, the quietude of North Mercer Street Park offers a brief respite of manicured grass, a stark contrast to the rugged, untamed silence found eleven miles away in the deep, limestone-walled embrace of the Slippery Rock Creek Gorge.
New Castle Northwest carries the weight of a century defined by the hard, honest labor of the furnace and the forge, where the economy was long forged in the heat of iron and steel. The memory of these industries remains ingrained in the local temperament, visible in the sturdy, unadorned architecture and the resilience of those who call these hills home. While the roar of the mills has largely faded into a persistent hum of modern commerce, the legacy of this work remains in the town's dense, deliberate streets. Residents often look toward the distant Appalachian Mountains as a constant, blue-tinted reminder of the wider world, yet they remain tethered to the local scale, perhaps taking an occasional afternoon to wander toward the mossy, mist-filled depths of Homewood Falls or the placid, reflective surface of Lily Pond.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of New Castle Northwest, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.0221, -80.3566. 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 New Castle Northwest includes the ZIP code (16105), 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 (Neshannock Township 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. |