Explore State Line, 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 State Line, 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 State Line.
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 | State Line |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Bedford County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 39.73293 |
| Longitude | -77.72469 |
| Population | 2,804 |
| Density | 395.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 15545, 17263 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | Bedford |
| School District | Greencastle-Antrim School District |
State Line anchors itself firmly upon the earth where the steady, dark pulse of Wills Creek cuts through the quiet topography. It lies 5.0 miles north of Cumberland, MD (from Cumberland, MD: bearing 357°T), and is situated 5.3 miles north-northeast of LaVale. The landscape here is defined by an inland expanse of heavy soil and timbered rises, a terrain that feels less like a destination and more like a permanent, unyielding fact of the map. Light at dusk here has a particular weight, pressing down against the fields until the shadows stretch long and thin, catching the edges of the nearby Ellerslie Area Park where the grass turns to a deep, bruised violet. Far to the west, the Allegheny Mountains loom as a jagged, ink-colored serration against the sky, serving as a silent boundary for the horizon. The air carries the scent of damp earth and cooling stone, a reminder that the nearest moisture, Lake Gordon, waits silently only four miles away, holding the reflection of the clouds in its still, deep basin.
State Line emerged as a pragmatic junction, a place where the movement of goods and the crossing of borders dictated the slow, industrious tempo of daily life. The economy here maintains a stubborn connection to the land and the transit of materials, echoing a history of labor that persists without fanfare in the local workshops and transit depots. Residents often look toward the distant routes of the Old Mail Trail, a ghost of older commerce that once tethered these hollows to the wider world. While the bustle of larger, more frantic centers remains a distant hum, the life of State Line is measured by the steady cycle of work and the transition of the seasons through the timber of Buchanan State Forest. It is a place that asks for little, possessing a dry, functional dignity that keeps the pace of the days grounded in the reality of the ridge-and-valley country.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of State Line, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 39.73293, -77.72469. 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 State Line includes the ZIP code (15545, 17263), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Bedford County (Bedford), and school district assignment (Greencastle-Antrim 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. |