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Tower City Pennsylvania Map

Explore Tower 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.

Interactive Map of Tower City, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Tower City, Pennsylvania Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Tower 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 Tower 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	Tower City
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Schuylkill County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.589254
Longitude	-76.552462
Population	1,419
Density	1739.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	17980
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Pottsville
School District	Williams Valley School District

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About Tower City, Pennsylvania

Tower City is a locality in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,419. The population density is 1739.3 people per km². Tower City is located at 40.5893°N, 76.5525°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Tower City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 17980.

Tower City maintains a steadfast presence where the earth buckles into long, parallel ridges and verdant troughs. It lies 18.5 miles north-northeast of West Hanover, PA (from West Hanover, PA: bearing 33°T), and is situated 5.2 miles south-southwest of Hegins. Wiconisco Creek carves a narrow, persistent path through the local terrain, its waters reflecting the muted light of an inland sky that feels vast and unburdened by the humidity of the distant coast. To the horizon, the faint, jagged silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains marks the limit of the world, while the nearby Lebanon Reservoir holds the stillness of the valley in its deep, quiet basin. In the immediate vicinity, Veterans Park offers a modest patch of green where the air carries the scent of damp soil and the sharp, clean chill of a Pennsylvania autumn.

Anthracite memory lingers in the architecture of Tower City, where the steep pitch of older roofs and the brick foundations of modest homes recall a time when the pulse of the regional economy beat in rhythm with the subterranean extraction of coal. Life here unfolds with a deliberate, quiet cadence, far removed from the frantic pace of larger urban centers. Residents often find their way to the Hostler Trail to wander through the landscape, or they look toward the dense, sheltered timber of the Haldeman State Forest when the seasons change the color of the canopy. Even as the modern world shifts, Tower City retains the character of a place built by hard labor, where the morning sun illuminates the frost on the fields and the evening settles over the valley with a profound, heavy silence.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Veterans Park (Local Park) — 0.4 mi, 095° E
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 1.1 mi, 104° E
Porter-Tower Playground (Local Recreation) — 1.1 mi, 081° E
Weiser State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 1.3 mi, 209° SW
State Game Land 211 (State Resource Management Area) — 1.9 mi, 170° S
Dark Sky Viewing (Viewpoint) — 3.0 mi, 227° SW
Gun Club Field (Local Recreation) — 3.0 mi, 262° W
Swatara State Park (State Park) — 5.5 mi, 156° SE
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 6.4 mi, 180° S · 110k acres
The General (Attraction) — 8.4 mi, 214° SW
Memorial Lake State Park (State Park) — 11.5 mi, 190° S
10th Ward Honor Roll (Monument) — 13.8 mi, 358° N
Stanley Coveleski Monument (Monument) — 13.8 mi, 359° N
Spanish-American War Memoral (Monument) — 13.8 mi, 359° N
Artisan Alley Fine Arts Gallery (Gallery) — 14.0 mi, 000° N
Kanati Elite Taxidermy (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 16.0 mi, 126° SE
St. Joseph's Fine Art Studio (Gallery) — 16.2 mi, 028° NE
Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine & Steam Train (Museum) — 16.7 mi, 039° NE
Minersville Area Historical Society (Museum) — 16.7 mi, 065° NE
Sgl 326 (State Recreation Area) — 17.0 mi, 049° NE
Union Canal Tunnel (Historic Ruins) — 17.3 mi, 164° S
Ashland Historical Society (Museum) — 17.5 mi, 040° NE
Light's Fort (Museum) — 17.8 mi, 159° S
"hot Dog" Frank Statue (Public Artwork) — 17.8 mi, 174° S
Leedy Theater (Theatre) — 17.8 mi, 174° S
Sgl 110 (State Recreation Area) — 18.0 mi, 101° E
Allen Theater (Cinema) — 18.1 mi, 174° S
Chestnut Street Log House (Museum) — 18.6 mi, 160° S
Anthracite Philharmonic (Arts Centre) — 19.0 mi, 071° E
James C. Nelson Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 35.5 mi, 264° W

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