Oakwood Pennsylvania Map

About Oakwood, Pennsylvania

Oakwood is a locality in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,215. The population density is 330.7 people per km². Oakwood is located at 41.0106°N, 80.3795°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16101.

Oakwood exists as a quiet accumulation of brick and timber held within the steady, inland folds of the Pennsylvania landscape. It lies 1.8 miles west-northwest of New Castle, PA (from New Castle, PA: bearing 286°T), and is situated 8.1 miles south-southwest of New Wilmington. Scotland Meadows Park defines the immediate edges of the terrain, offering a sprawling, grassy threshold where the sunlight often catches the tall, dry stalks of late-season weeds, turning them into pale gold filaments against the afternoon sky. Only a mile away, the Shenango River carves a deliberate path through the earth, its water carrying the dark, silted memory of the high plateau and the distant, unseen slopes of the Appalachian Mountains. The air here holds a distinct, cool density, especially as the shadows grow long and the dampness from the nearby ground rises to meet the cooling brick of the older row houses.

Oakwood traces its economic spine back to the heavy industry and rail transport that once dictated the pace of the entire region, though the clatter of the furnaces has long since faded into a persistent, humming stillness. The local character is shaped by this transition, where the remnants of a more strenuous past inform the deliberate, unhurried way the residents move through the morning. People here recognize the change of seasons by the way the light shifts across the facades of the square, moving from the sharp, brittle clarity of winter to the humid, mossy greens of summer. While the distant rush of Homewood Falls or the deeper, geological drama of Slippery Rock Creek Gorge remain part of the wider map, life in Oakwood remains anchored to the immediate, everyday textures of the street corner and the steady, quiet work of maintaining a place that has seen its most frenetic days pass into a settled, enduring grace.

About This Oakwood Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Oakwood, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.010616, -80.37951. 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 Oakwood includes the ZIP code (16101), 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 (Union Area 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.