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Red Lion Pennsylvania Map

Explore Red Lion, 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.

Interactive Map of Red Lion, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Red Lion, Pennsylvania Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Red Lion, 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 Red Lion.

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	Red Lion
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Chester County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	39.898606
Longitude	-76.607749
Population	6,512
Density	1914.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	18062, 19348, 17356
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	West Chester
School District	Red Lion Area School District

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About Red Lion, Pennsylvania

Red Lion is a locality in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 6,512. The population density is 1914.9 people per km². Red Lion is located at 39.8986°N, 76.6077°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Red Lion is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 18062, 19348, 17356.

Red Lion manifests as a quiet intersection of brick and asphalt, anchored firmly in the rolling agricultural expanse of Pennsylvania. It lies 7.0 miles southwest of West Chester, PA (from West Chester, PA: bearing 215°T), and is situated 8.5 miles southwest of West Goshen. The landscape surrounding Red Lion unfolds in steady, rhythmic swells of earth, where the soil holds the deep, dark color of a long-tilled garden. Moisture gathers in the low swales near the East Branch Red Clay Creek, cooling the evening air as it moves across the fields. At the edge of the horizon, the distant, hazy blue outlines of the Appalachian Mountains suggest a vastness that grounds the local scale, while the quiet proximity of Longwood Gardens offers a disciplined, botanical contrast to the wilder, unkempt thickets that border the town’s periphery.

Furniture manufacturing once defined the steady pulse of Red Lion, leaving behind a legacy of sturdy workshops and the lingering scent of sawdust in the older quarters. The economy has shifted, yet the spirit of the place remains tied to the deliberate, measured labor of its forebears, visible in the solid construction of the local storefronts and the reliable pace of daily life. Residents occasionally wander toward the Kennett Square Reservoir to watch the light flatten against the water, or look toward the distant shade of Red Lion State Forest when the summer heat presses down on the pavement. In the quiet hours of dusk, the town feels like a pause in the wider movement of the state, a place where the history of industry is still legible in the clean, unadorned lines of the architecture.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Fairmount Park (Local Park) — 0.0 mi, 151° SE
Nitchkey Field (Local Recreation) — 0.6 mi, 228° SW
Freysville Park (Local Park) — 1.7 mi, 002° N
Windsor Township Open Space (Local Recreation) — 1.7 mi, 339° N
South York Cinemas 4 (Cinema) — 4.6 mi, 301° NW
Hex Murder House (Attraction) — 6.9 mi, 199° S
Top of York (Viewpoint) — 7.0 mi, 290° W
Samuel S. Lewis State Park (State Park) — 7.1 mi, 024° NE
Looking Back (Public Artwork) — 7.5 mi, 305° NW
York and York County World War II Memorial (Monument) — 7.7 mi, 305° NW
Continental Treasury (Monument) — 7.7 mi, 305° NW
Gen. Wayne Headquarters (Monument) — 7.8 mi, 304° NW
Creative York (Arts Centre) — 7.8 mi, 304° NW
Marketview Arts (Gallery) — 7.9 mi, 305° NW
Memorial Flag Pole (Attraction) — 9.1 mi, 328° NW
Susquehanna Riverlands State Park (State Park) — 10.0 mi, 357° N
Through the fire Studios (Gallery) — 10.9 mi, 031° NE
End of the Line (Historic Ruins) — 11.0 mi, 290° W
Susquehanna Stage Company (Theatre) — 11.2 mi, 013° N
Marietta Restoration Associates (Museum) — 11.4 mi, 015° N
Old Trolley Line Bridge (Historic Ruins) — 11.6 mi, 022° N
Boyer Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 13.4 mi, 068° E
Mount Joy Historical Society (Museum) — 15.7 mi, 020° N
Hemlock Gorge (Attraction) — 17.0 mi, 211° SW
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 29.5 mi, 301° NW · 110k acres
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 35.6 mi, 129° SE · 96k acres

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