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Snydertown Pennsylvania Map

Explore Snydertown, 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 Snydertown, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Snydertown, Pennsylvania Map

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

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.

CitySnydertown
StatePennsylvania (PA)
CountyNorthumberland County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude40.987173
Longitude-77.599454
Population539
Density68.1 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Codes17821, 15425, 15688, 16841
Area Code215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County SeatSunbury
School DistrictBellefonte Area School District

About Snydertown, Pennsylvania

Snydertown is a locality in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 539. The population density is 68.1 people per km². Snydertown is located at 40.9872°N, 77.5995°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 17821, 15425, 15688.

Snydertown occupies a quiet expanse of land where the persistent, silt-heavy currents of Shamokin Creek define the rhythm of the immediate topography. It lies 13.9 miles southwest of Bloomsburg, PA (from Bloomsburg, PA: bearing 232°T), and is situated 5.7 miles east-northeast of Hamilton. The landscape here is characterized by the deliberate, steady rise of earth that signals the approach of the distant Appalachian Mountains, visible only as a soft, bruised-purple serration against the far horizon. Sunlight in this part of Pennsylvania possesses a particular, heavy clarity, often catching the dust motes that hover above the fallow fields and the tangled, scrubby brush that edges the roadsides. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek, the ground hums with the dormant energy of a terrain that has been worked and re-worked, offering a sense of stability that feels as permanent as the limestone shelf beneath the soil.

Snydertown retains the quiet, industrious character of a place built upon the extraction and movement of subterranean wealth, echoing an anthracite memory that lingers in the local architecture and the stubborn pride of the residents. The Northumberland County Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area now occupies the scarred earth nearby, repurposing the remnants of a more frantic industrial era into a space for modern recreation, effectively turning the ghosts of coal mines into trails and clearings. While the economy has shifted away from the soot-stained intensity of the past, the influence of the region remains, tethering the daily life of Snydertown to the legacy of the earth beneath it. Evening settles over the valley with a cooling weight, turning the sky to a slate gray that mirrors the textures of the old stone foundations, where the pace of life remains slow, deliberate, and entirely unbothered by the frantic pulse of the outside world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • State Game Land 295 (State Resource Management Area) — 2.0 mi, 113° SE
  • Bald Eagle State Park (State Park) — 2.5 mi, 338° N
  • Jonas Panik Park (Local Park) — 2.5 mi, 261° W
  • Foster Joseph Sayers Reservoir (Recreation Area) — 3.1 mi, 324° NW
  • State Game Land 323 (State Resource Management Area) — 3.2 mi, 285° W
  • Northeast Fishery Center (Nature Reserve) — 3.6 mi, 073° E
  • Walker Twp Community Park (Local Park) — 4.6 mi, 216° SW
  • Penn's Cave & Wildlife Park (Attraction) — 7.3 mi, 185° S
  • James Cleveland Memorial (Monument) — 8.2 mi, 204° SW
  • Belles Springs Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 8.6 mi, 055° NE
  • Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 9.1 mi, 135° SE
  • Milesburg Monument (Monument) — 10.2 mi, 253° W
  • Via Air Mail (Public Artwork) — 10.7 mi, 241° SW
  • American Philatelic Center (Museum) — 11.0 mi, 241° SW
  • Bells Majestic View (Viewpoint) — 11.9 mi, 156° SE
  • Penns Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 12.3 mi, 143° SE
  • Smokestack (Historic Ruins) — 13.2 mi, 231° SW
  • Bucktail State Park (State Park) — 13.5 mi, 011° N
  • Bucktail State Park Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.5 mi, 011° N
  • Spring Creek Canyon (Nature Reserve) — 14.0 mi, 231° SW
  • Railroad Bed Historical Marker (Historic Ruins) — 14.1 mi, 138° SE
  • Deeded Square Inches (Attraction) — 15.7 mi, 220° SW
  • Beer Tap (Attraction) — 15.9 mi, 200° S
  • Art Alliance (Arts Centre) — 16.8 mi, 223° SW
  • Thickhead Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 17.0 mi, 196° S
  • M60A3 Tank (Attraction) — 17.5 mi, 216° SW
  • Penn State All-Sports Museum (Museum) — 18.1 mi, 228° SW
  • The Frost Entomological Museum (Museum) — 18.7 mi, 227° SW
  • The Center for Arts & Crafts at Penn State (Arts Centre) — 18.8 mi, 227° SW

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About This Snydertown Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Snydertown, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.987173, -77.599454. 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 Snydertown includes the ZIP code (17821, 15425, 15688), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Northumberland County (Sunbury), and school district assignment (Bellefonte 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.