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South Heights Pennsylvania Map

Explore South Heights, 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 South Heights, Pennsylvania

How to Use This South Heights, Pennsylvania Map

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

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	South Heights
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Beaver County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.573678
Longitude	-80.235616
Population	384
Density	453.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	15081
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Beaver
School District	Ambridge Area School District

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About South Heights, Pennsylvania

South Heights is a locality in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 384. The population density is 453.4 people per km². South Heights is located at 40.5737°N, 80.2356°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. South Heights is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 15081.

South Heights claims a narrow, purposeful stretch of land defined by the persistent, heavy current of the Ohio River that carves its western boundary. It lies 3.9 miles north-northwest of Carnot-Moon, PA (from Carnot-Moon, PA: bearing 346°T), and is situated 7.8 miles west of Franklin Park. The terrain rises in firm, earthen slopes away from the water, where the air holds the cooling moisture of the riverbed and the faint, metallic scent of the regional industrial legacy. In the quiet hours of the afternoon, the light catches the steep banks in a way that turns the river surface into a sheet of hammered pewter, reflecting the gray, overcast sky typical of the Allegheny Plateau. South Heights Municipal Park offers a modest clearing of green space where the land levels off, providing a vantage point to observe the slow, deliberate passage of barges navigating the bends of the channel toward distant horizons.

South Heights evolved as a byproduct of the relentless labor that fueled the river valleys, keeping a steady, unassuming pace that persists long after the height of the steel era. While the echoes of heavy industry remain in the iron-rich soil and the structural bones of the neighborhood, the local economy has shifted toward the quiet persistence of residential life and small-scale enterprise. The influence of the Allegheny Mountains is felt only as a distant, hazy silhouette against the eastern sky, while the nearby Fern Hollow and the waters of Ambridge Reservoir provide a sense of contained, inland geography that keeps the focus inward. Life in South Heights moves with a pragmatic, unadorned rhythm, marked by the steady hum of trains and the occasional whistle from the river, creating a landscape that values the endurance of its people over the flash of modern development.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Boggs Run Conservation Area (Conservation Area) — 0.5 mi, 185° S
Reach for the Stars Dance Studio (Arts Centre) — 1.1 mi, 022° N
Mound Street Playground (Local Recreation) — 1.1 mi, 067° NE
Hopewell High School Ballfields (Local Park) — 1.2 mi, 318° NW
Ambridge Honor Roll (Monument) — 1.3 mi, 012° N
Shousetown Boatyard (Monument) — 1.4 mi, 146° SE
Great Republic Monument (Monument) — 1.4 mi, 146° SE
Hopewell Community Park (Local Park) — 1.4 mi, 287° W
Nemtz/ Agresti Land Acquisition (Local Recreation) — 1.9 mi, 300° NW
Devils Hollow (Conservation Area) — 2.4 mi, 081° E
Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 078° E
The Edgeworth Club (Attraction) — 3.1 mi, 127° SE
Center for Young Musicians (Arts Centre) — 3.7 mi, 128° SE
Fern Hollow Nature Center (Attraction) — 4.9 mi, 114° SE
Gorilla Statue (Public Artwork) — 7.0 mi, 101° E
Former Nike Missile Launch Site Pl-71 (Historic Ruins) — 7.2 mi, 149° SE
Raccoon Creek State Park (State Park) — 7.6 mi, 234° SW
Shafer's Rock (Viewpoint) — 7.7 mi, 234° SW
Sample Schoolhouse (Museum) — 10.9 mi, 038° NE
Hillman State Park (State Park) — 11.0 mi, 221° SW
Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 11.1 mi, 289° W · 6,562 acres
Thompson Drive Park (Nature Reserve) — 11.1 mi, 107° E
Cantellops Art Gallery (Gallery) — 11.6 mi, 092° E
Merrick Art Gallery (Museum) — 11.7 mi, 340° N
Thornburg Theater (Theatre) — 12.6 mi, 141° SE
155mm Gun M1 (Attraction) — 13.0 mi, 341° N
Moonshot Museum (Museum) — 14.2 mi, 127° SE
Mattress Factory (Museum) — 14.2 mi, 124° SE

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