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Slabtown Pennsylvania Map

Explore Slabtown, 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 Slabtown, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Slabtown, Pennsylvania Map

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

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	Slabtown
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Schuylkill County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.903066
Longitude	-76.401922
Population	145
Density	117.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	17985, 16201, 15552, 17820
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Pottsville
School District	Southern Columbia Area School District

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About Slabtown, Pennsylvania

Slabtown is a locality in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 145. The population density is 117.4 people per km². Slabtown is located at 40.9031°N, 76.4019°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 17985, 16201, 15552.

Slabtown anchors itself within a landscape defined by the deliberate, quiet persistence of the Pennsylvania interior. It lies 11.3 miles south of Berwick, PA (from Berwick, PA: bearing 170°T), and is situated 5.0 miles north of Shenandoah. The earth here rises and falls in long, muscular ridges that suggest the distant, hazy blue presence of the Appalachian Mountains far to the west. Catawissa Creek carves a narrow, persistent path through the local topography just a mile away, its waters moving with a steady, cooling clarity that defines the valley floor. Nearby, the landscape opens into the broad, fertile expanse of Ringtown Valley, where the light at dusk catches the edges of the fields, turning the soil a deep, bruised purple. A few miles out, the descent of Tomhicken Falls provides a constant, low-frequency hum that seems to underscore the stillness of the surrounding woodlands, while the Pumping Station Reservoir holds a mirror to the expansive, shifting sky.

Slabtown carries the weight of a history rooted in the grit and ambition of the anthracite era, a time when the labor of the earth dictated the pace of every household. The local economy, once tethered to the extraction of deep-vein minerals, has transitioned into a quieter existence where the remnants of old collieries are slowly being reclaimed by forest and brush. Residents find a common ground in the traditions of the region, often gathering near the Ringtown Valley Recreation Complex Expansion to mark the passing seasons. Life in Slabtown moves with the measured cadence of a place that has seen the height of industrial fervor and settled into a dignified, self-contained maturity. There is a distinct, unadorned beauty in the way the morning mist clings to the frame houses, leaving the town to wake slowly under the heavy, silent watch of the ridges.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Numidia Community Park (Local Park) — 1.5 mi, 168° S
State Game Land 058 (State Resource Management Area) — 2.1 mi, 351° N
Weiser State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 4.1 mi, 176° S
Impulse (Attraction) — 5.5 mi, 253° W
Giant Wheel (Attraction) — 5.5 mi, 253° W
Whipper (Attraction) — 5.5 mi, 253° W
Flying Tigers (Attraction) — 5.5 mi, 253° W
XD Theater (Cinema) — 5.6 mi, 253° W
Time Machine Theatre (Theatre) — 5.7 mi, 253° W
Knoebels Carousel Museum (Museum) — 5.7 mi, 253° W
Knoebels History Museum (Museum) — 5.7 mi, 253° W
Pennsylvania Mining Museum (Museum) — 5.7 mi, 253° W
Streater/Ridge/Krause Property Acquisition (Local Recreation) — 6.2 mi, 327° NW
Bloomsburg Town Park Memorial (Monument) — 6.5 mi, 338° N
Diamondtown Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 7.1 mi, 187° S
St. Joseph's Fine Art Studio (Gallery) — 7.4 mi, 183° S
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 7.4 mi, 194° S
Civil War Memorial (Public Artwork) — 7.5 mi, 337° NW
Gross Auditorium (Theatre) — 7.5 mi, 340° N
Northumberland County Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area (Local Recreation) — 7.7 mi, 218° SW
Mothers Memorial (Monument) — 8.9 mi, 158° S
Ashland Historical Society (Museum) — 9.0 mi, 158° S
Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine & Steam Train (Museum) — 9.0 mi, 163° S
Artisan Alley Fine Arts Gallery (Gallery) — 10.9 mi, 226° SW
Sgl 326 (State Recreation Area) — 11.5 mi, 154° SE
Locust Lake State Park (State Park) — 15.1 mi, 123° SE
Catawissa Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 16.4 mi, 088° E
Tuscarora State Park (State Park) — 19.9 mi, 109° E
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 26.6 mi, 172° S · 110k acres

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