Explore North Belle Vernon, 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 North Belle Vernon, 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 North Belle Vernon.
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 | North Belle Vernon |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Westmoreland County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.129239 |
| Longitude | -79.868102 |
| Population | 1,873 |
| Density | 1721.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 15012 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | Greensburg |
| School District | Belle Vernon Area School District |
North Belle Vernon defines its character through the steady, subterranean pulse of the Speers Run as it carves a path toward the larger river systems that once fueled the region’s industrial ambition. It lies 4.0 miles southwest of Rostraver, PA (from Rostraver, PA: bearing 233°T), and is situated 1.7 miles southeast of Monessen. The landscape here is characterized by the complex topography of the Allegheny Plateau, where the steep, wooded incline of Twilight Hollow sits only a mile away, casting long, bruised shadows across the residential streets during the late afternoon. Residents often gather in the Belle Vernon Veterans Memorial Park, a space that anchors the neighborhood and offers a quiet vantage point to observe the way the light thins and turns a metallic, pale gold against the brick facades. Far to the east, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains provides a jagged edge to the horizon, grounding the immediate sprawl of asphalt and slate in a wider, ancient geological context.
Economic shifts have long since moved away from the heavy furnaces and clatter of the mills that once defined the riverbanks, leaving North Belle Vernon to settle into the quietude of a residential borough where the pace is dictated by the turning seasons rather than the factory whistle. The remnants of a mid-century prosperity remain etched into the architecture of the older homes and the sturdy, pragmatic layout of the streets, which follow the uneven contours of the earth rather than a rigid grid. While Mirror Lake lies seven miles away as a destination for those seeking a reflective stillness, the daily life here remains tethered to the local rhythm of school zones, neighborhood porches, and the persistent, quiet work of maintaining a life in a landscape that has seen its primary industry retreat into memory. There is a distinct, unvarnished integrity to the way the borough persists, holding onto its identity as a place where the history of the plateau is still visible in the very way the ground rises and falls beneath one’s feet.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of North Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.129239, -79.868102. 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 North Belle Vernon includes the ZIP code (15012), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Westmoreland County (Greensburg), and school district assignment (Belle Vernon 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. |