Refton Pennsylvania Map

About Refton, Pennsylvania

Refton is a locality in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 310. The population density is 99.8 people per km². Refton is located at 39.9511°N, 76.2440°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 17568, 17584.

Refton occupies a quiet stretch of limestone-rich earth where the horizon is defined by the steady, unadorned lines of Lancaster County farmland. It lies 7.3 miles south-southeast of Lancaster, PA (from Lancaster, PA: bearing 148°T), and is situated 3.2 miles southeast of Willow Street. The landscape around Refton pulls the light low and heavy across the fields, casting long, bruised shadows that linger until the sun dips behind the distant silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains. Big Beaver Creek carves a narrow, persistent path through the limestone bedrock just a mile away, its waters moving with a deliberate, cold clarity that shapes the damp margins of the nearby Strasburg Township Community Park. The air here holds a distinct, settled weight, smelling of turned soil and the cooling metal of machinery, a sensory anchor for a place that feels as though it has reached a permanent, sensible agreement with the ground beneath it.

Agriculture remains the quiet pulse of Refton, where the industry is measured in the predictable turning of the seasons and the maintenance of heritage barns that have stood for generations. While the encroaching pace of modern commerce hums in the distance, life in Refton retains a focus on the tangible, where the daily labor of the field and the workshop dictates the rhythm of the morning. Beyond the immediate reach of the village, the land deepens toward the quiet depressions of Grubb Hollow, and the more expansive, wooded reaches of William Penn State Forest stand as a reminder of the wilder, older Pennsylvania that persists just outside the fence line. It is a place of modest, enduring utility, where the history is not written in monuments but in the persistent, careful stewardship of the acreage that has sustained the families of Refton for as long as anyone cares to remember.

About This Refton Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Refton, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 39.951147, -76.243963. 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 Refton includes the ZIP code (17568, 17584), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Lancaster County (Lancaster), and school district assignment (Lampeter-Strasburg 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.