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Union City Pennsylvania Map

Explore Union 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 Union City, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Union City, Pennsylvania Map

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

Latitude	41.8995
Longitude	-79.84533
Population	2,927
Density	617.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	16438
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Erie
School District	Union City Area School District

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About Union City, Pennsylvania

Union City is a locality in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,927. The population density is 617.6 people per km². Union City is located at 41.8995°N, 79.8453°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Union City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 16438.

Union City marks the intersection of quiet, heavy-aired farmland and the persistent, low-slung geography of the Allegheny Plateau. It lies 19.3 miles south-southeast of Harborcreek, PA (from Harborcreek, PA: bearing 163°T), and is situated 18.9 miles south-southeast of Northwest Harborcreek. The South Branch French Creek carves a deliberate path through the landscape, its waters moving with a steady, unhurried weight that defines the local drainage and gives the soil a dark, fertile depth. To the west, the ground rises toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains, while closer to the periphery, the terrain flattens into the subtle, wide reaches of Baldwin Flats. Sunlight here often catches the metallic glint of the Union City Reservoir, a pool of still water resting two miles from the center, reflecting the changing greys and ambers of the sky as the afternoon wanes. Within the residential blocks, the 1st Avenue Tot Lot provides a small, human-scaled patch of green where the sound of children playing occasionally breaks the long silence of the passing day.

Industry and the weight of history have left their mark on the foundations of Union City, where the remnants of timber and manufacturing eras still color the character of the streets. The local economy grew in tandem with the rail lines and the timber trade, building a heritage of manual labor that persists in the utilitarian architecture and the sturdy, modest brickwork of the older buildings. While the pace of life has slowed from the frantic output of earlier decades, the spirit of the place remains tied to the cycles of the seasons and the land surrounding the South Branch French Creek. One might observe how the townspeople move with a certain gravity, a byproduct of living in a place that measures time not by the clock, but by the slow, seasonal shifts in the canopy and the way the harvest light lingers over the fields. Even as modern commerce changes the storefronts, the core identity of the locality holds firm to the traditions of a place where people have long looked to the earth for their livelihood.

Nearby Outdoor Places

1st Avenue Tot Lot (Local Recreation) — 0.1 mi, 259° W
American Legion Little League (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 305° NW
Caflisch Memorial Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 097° E
South Branch French Creek Conservation Area (Conservation Area) — 2.6 mi, 102° E
State Game Land 102 (State Resource Management Area) — 2.6 mi, 038° NE
State Game Land 202 (State Resource Management Area) — 3.4 mi, 178° S
Union City Lake (Recreation Area) — 3.6 mi, 339° N
Wattsburg Fen Natural Area (Conservation Area) — 5.5 mi, 039° NE
Old State Line Historical Marker (Monument) — 7.1 mi, 014° N
The Judson House (Museum) — 7.6 mi, 292° W
The Eagle Hotel (Museum) — 7.6 mi, 292° W
Muddy Creek Rna (Research Natural Area) — 9.6 mi, 226° SW
Erie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 9.7 mi, 212° SW · 18k acres
Corry Area Historical Society (Museum) — 10.5 mi, 078° E
Painted Finch Gallery (Gallery) — 10.6 mi, 082° E
Jon's Fish Statue (Public Artwork) — 11.6 mi, 059° NE
Cambridge Springs Museum and History Center (Museum) — 12.8 mi, 239° SW
Hornby School Museum (Museum) — 15.0 mi, 356° N
Colt's Station (Monument) — 15.2 mi, 004° N
Glenhill Farmhouse (Viewpoint) — 16.8 mi, 335° NW
Penn State Behrend Studio Theatre (Theatre) — 16.8 mi, 335° NW
Mary Behrend Monument (Monument) — 16.8 mi, 335° NW
Mary D'Angelo Peforming Arts Center (Theatre) — 17.7 mi, 323° NW
Bastion Studios (Gallery) — 19.1 mi, 321° NW
City Gallery (Gallery) — 19.4 mi, 322° NW
Graffiti Wall (Attraction) — 19.5 mi, 322° NW
Brown's Farm Barn (Nature Reserve) — 19.6 mi, 301° NW
Erie Arts & Culture (Arts Centre) — 19.8 mi, 323° NW
Allegheny National Forest (National Forest) — 26.3 mi, 126° SE · 514k acres
Allegheny National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 29.5 mi, 112° E · 24k acres

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