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Spring Glen Pennsylvania Map

Explore Spring Glen, 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 Spring Glen, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Spring Glen, Pennsylvania Map

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

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.

CitySpring Glen
StatePennsylvania (PA)
CountySchuylkill County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude40.626197
Longitude-76.620797
Population480
Density18.0 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Codes17938, 17978
Area Code215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County SeatPottsville

About Spring Glen, Pennsylvania

Spring Glen is a locality in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 18.0 people per km². Spring Glen is located at 40.6262°N, 76.6208°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 17938, 17978.

Spring Glen reveals itself through the steady, limestone-filtered pulse of Pine Creek as it carves a path through the quiet, broken topography of the region. It lies 19.2 miles north-northeast of West Hanover, PA (from West Hanover, PA: bearing 20°T), and is situated 6.7 miles west-southwest of Hegins. The land here holds a somber, earthen weight, characterized by low-lying fields that transition into dense, shadowed woodlands as one approaches the boundary of State Game Land 264. In the deepening light of late afternoon, the horizon toward the west is defined by the faint, jagged silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a distant edge that anchors the sky. The atmosphere carries a crisp, mineral quality, smelling of damp earth and decaying leaves, while the light settles into a muted, silvered gray that flattens the color of the fields and emphasizes the rigid, vertical lines of the trees.

Agriculture and the slow, grinding legacy of regional industry have shaped the character of Spring Glen, creating a landscape that values utility and the endurance of hard-wrought structures. While the quietude of the surrounding woods suggests a wilder past, the economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the land, with small-scale farming and local trade providing the primary sustenance for those who remain. Residents often look toward the broader expanse of the state, aware of the deeper history etched into the nearby anthracite regions, yet they find their own stillness in the proximity of the Greenland Trail or the managed silence of the forests. Life in Spring Glen proceeds with a deliberate, unadorned pace, where the passage of time is marked less by the clamor of progress and more by the seasonal transformation of the creek beds and the heavy, lingering frost that settles over the valley floors before winter truly takes hold.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • State Game Land 264 (State Resource Management Area) — 0.7 mi, 172° S
  • Gun Club Field (Local Recreation) — 2.9 mi, 169° S
  • Veterans Memorial Park (Local Park) — 3.3 mi, 179° S
  • Weiser State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 3.5 mi, 164° S
  • Valley View Park (Local Park) — 3.7 mi, 078° E
  • Dark Sky Viewing (Viewpoint) — 4.8 mi, 163° S
  • Northumberland County Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area (Local Recreation) — 7.7 mi, 343° N
  • The General (Attraction) — 9.6 mi, 187° S
  • Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 9.7 mi, 159° S · 110k acres
  • Swatara State Park (State Park) — 9.8 mi, 144° SE
  • North Franklin Colliery (Monument) — 11.0 mi, 344° N
  • Trevorton WWII Memorial (Monument) — 11.2 mi, 345° N
  • 10th Ward Honor Roll (Monument) — 11.6 mi, 015° N
  • Artisan Alley Fine Arts Gallery (Gallery) — 12.1 mi, 018° N
  • Memorial Lake State Park (State Park) — 14.0 mi, 176° S
  • St. Joseph's Fine Art Studio (Gallery) — 16.2 mi, 043° NE
  • Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine & Steam Train (Museum) — 17.5 mi, 053° NE
  • Lore Degenstein Art Gallery (Gallery) — 17.8 mi, 312° NW
  • AMC CLASSIC Selinsgrove 12 (Cinema) — 18.3 mi, 319° NW
  • Downdraft (Attraction) — 18.3 mi, 019° N
  • Ashland Historical Society (Museum) — 18.4 mi, 054° NE
  • Fandango (Attraction) — 18.4 mi, 019° N
  • Tumbling Timbers (Attraction) — 18.4 mi, 019° N
  • Pennsylvania Mining Museum (Museum) — 18.5 mi, 019° N
  • Knoebels History Museum (Museum) — 18.5 mi, 019° N
  • Sgl 326 (State Recreation Area) — 18.5 mi, 062° NE
  • Knoebels Carousel Museum (Museum) — 18.5 mi, 019° N
  • Time Machine Theatre (Theatre) — 18.5 mi, 019° N
  • Sgl 110 (State Recreation Area) — 22.1 mi, 106° E
  • James C. Nelson Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 32.3 mi, 259° W

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About This Spring Glen Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Spring Glen, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.626197, -76.620797. 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 Glen includes the ZIP code (17938, 17978), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Schuylkill County (Pottsville), and school district assignment.

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.