Summit Station Pennsylvania Map

About Summit Station, Pennsylvania

Summit Station is a locality in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 193. The population density is 58.4 people per km². Summit Station is located at 40.5640°N, 76.2044°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 17979.

Summit Station occupies a quiet intersection of undulating fields and dense woodland where the light at dusk settles in long, bruised purples across the horizon. It lies 8.4 miles south of Pottsville, PA (from Pottsville, PA: bearing 183°T), and is situated 4.9 miles south-southwest of Schuylkill Haven. Bear Creek carves a shallow, rhythmic pulse through the landscape just a mile away, drawing the eye toward the low, shadowed depression of Werts Hollow. The elevation here grants a certain clarity to the air, sharpening the edges of the barns and silos that rise from the earth like iron-wrought artifacts of a persistent agrarian tradition. Residents often gather at the Summit Station Playground, a modest patch of green that serves as the quiet social anchor of the immediate vicinity, where the wind carries the scent of damp soil and drying stalks across the open clearing.

History in Summit Station remains etched in the steady, utilitarian architecture of its older structures and the persistence of local trades that have adapted to the changing demands of the interior landscape. While the distant Appalachian Mountains provide a jagged, hazy boundary far to the west, the local economy leans into the rhythm of small-scale commerce and the daily transit of those moving through the interior corridors of the region. Travelers occasionally drift toward the Yellick Path to find solitude among the trees, or venture further toward the wider, still waters of Blue Marsh Lake to watch the seasonal migration of light across the surface. Life here moves with a deliberate, unadorned pace, defined by the seasonal labor of the fields and the enduring character of a place that values its distance from the frantic pace of larger, more crowded metropolitan centers.

About This Summit Station Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Summit Station, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.56398, -76.204391. 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 Summit Station includes the ZIP code (17979), 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 (Blue Mountain School District).

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.