Explore Wellsboro, 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 Wellsboro, 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 Wellsboro.
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 | Wellsboro |
| State | Pennsylvania (PA) |
| County | Tioga County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 41.748684 |
| Longitude | -77.30053 |
| Population | 3,469 |
| Density | 273.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 16901 |
| Area Code | 215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878 |
| County Seat | Wellsboro |
| School District | Wellsboro Area School District |
Wellsboro anchors the high ground of the plateau, where the Morris Branch cuts a quiet, persistent path through the earth to define the local topography. It lies 38.3 miles north-northwest of Williamsport, PA (from Williamsport, PA: bearing 336°T), and is situated 8.1 miles northeast of Kennedy. The landscape here is defined by the deep, verdant reach of Tioga State Forest, which exerts a cooling influence on the air long after the sun has retreated behind the distant silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains. To the west, the land dips into the shadowed quiet of Fuller Hollow, while the stillness of Kelsey Creek Lake offers a mirror to the shifting clouds above. At Packer Community Park, the grass holds the morning dew with a stubborn tenacity, and the light at dusk settles over the fields in a pale, amber wash that turns the surrounding woods into a wall of deepening charcoal.
Wellsboro maintains a steady, deliberate pace, built upon a history of timber and the hard-won prosperity of the frontier. The economy here moves in step with the seasons, favoring the local harvest and the steady, unpretentious trade of a regional hub. Life often gravitates toward the center, where the architecture reflects a mid-nineteenth-century resolve, and residents might spend an afternoon walking the School House Trail, where the path is lined with the skeletal remains of old-growth timber. The character of the place is marked by a certain gravity; it is a locality where the weight of the past is not a burden, but a ballast, keeping the daily business of life anchored firmly in the soil of the plateau.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.748684, -77.30053. 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 Wellsboro includes the ZIP code (16901), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Tioga County (Wellsboro), and school district assignment (Wellsboro Area 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. |