Explore Spring City, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Spring City, 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 Spring City.
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 | Spring City |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Chester County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.176769 |
| Longitude | -75.547688 |
| Population | 3,494 |
| Density | 1756.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 19475 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | West Chester |
| School District | Spring-Ford Area School District |
Spring City anchors itself firmly upon the banks of the Schuylkill River, where the water moves with a heavy, deliberate grace through the quiet landscape. It lies 3.6 miles north-northwest of Phoenixville, PA (from Phoenixville, PA: bearing 332°T), and is situated 9.4 miles northwest of Tredyffrin. The terrain here is shaped by the slow accumulation of sediment and the persistent carving of the riverbed, creating a low-lying basin that feels sheltered from the wider, more jagged reach of the Appalachian Mountains visible only as a faint, hazy smudge against the far western horizon. Within the immediate frame of the landscape, Hall Street Park offers an open green threshold where the earth meets the water, providing a place to watch the light change from a sharp, clear morning gold to the muted, bruised violet of a Pennsylvania dusk. The air in Spring City carries the scent of damp soil and river-worn stone, a grounding atmosphere that suggests a place unconcerned with the frantic pace of the larger world beyond its borders.
Industrial echoes linger in the brick facades and sturdy, utilitarian architecture that define the local character, serving as a reminder of the manufacturing heritage that once fueled the growth of Spring City. While the economy has shifted away from its early foundry and mill-based foundations, the physical remnants of that labor remain, grounding the daily rhythm in a sense of permanence and past endeavor. Beyond the immediate reach of the streets, the geography remains largely quiet, save for the occasional ripple of movement near Gotwals Ponds or the subtle shifts in the land toward the distant, shallow depressions of Jug Hollow. Life here follows the steady, predictable turning of the seasons, where the preservation of a neighborhood's structural integrity is treated with the same quiet care that residents apply to the maintenance of their own homes, fostering an environment where history is not merely observed but lived in and maintained with a pragmatic, enduring pride.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Spring City, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.176769, -75.547688. 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 Spring City includes the ZIP code (19475), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Chester County (West Chester), and school district assignment (Spring-Ford 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 generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |