Explore Philadelphia, Tennessee, 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 Philadelphia, Tennessee. 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 Tennessee 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 Philadelphia.
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 | Philadelphia |
| State | Tennessee (TN) |
| County | Loudon County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 35.67905 |
| Longitude | -84.399914 |
| Population | 607 |
| Density | 150.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 38401, 37681, 37846 |
| Area Code | 731, 865 |
| County Seat | Loudon |
| School District | Loudon County School District |
Philadelphia manifests as a quiet convergence of agrarian tradition and the slow, deliberate movement of the earth’s own topography. It lies 8.9 miles east of Johnson, TN (from Johnson, TN: bearing 87°T), and is situated 7.9 miles west of Tellico Village. The landscape surrounding Philadelphia is defined by the steady, unadorned course of Sweetwater Creek, which carves a modest path through the fields and provides a constant, low-frequency pulse to the local geography. Beyond the immediate pastures, the terrain transitions into the broader, deeper basin of Stockton Valley, where the soil holds the long-settled weight of generations. On days when the air is thin and clear, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Cumberland Mountains defines the horizon, acting as a permanent, silent boundary to the east. The light here tends to linger, stretching thin across the grasses at dusk until the shadows of the fence lines grow long and brittle against the darkening earth.
Agriculture remains the foundational fiber of Philadelphia, grounding the economy in the seasonal cycles of planting and harvest that have persisted since the early days of settlement. While the pace of modern industry often bypasses these quiet corridors, the daily rhythms of the locality are marked by the movement of heavy machinery and the diligent maintenance of family-held tracts. Residents often look toward the nearby expanse of Watts Bar Lake for recreation, a vast, still presence that contrasts with the narrower flow of the local creeks. A sense of collective continuity is maintained in spaces like Lions Park, where the community gathers for events that define the social calendar. Life in Philadelphia is not defined by rapid transformation, but by an adherence to the land, where the changing seasons dictate the tempo of labor and the quiet patterns of existence.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Philadelphia, Tennessee. Coordinates: 35.67905, -84.399914. 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 Philadelphia includes the ZIP code (38401, 37681, 37846), telephone area code (731, 865), county seat of Loudon County (Loudon), and school district assignment (Loudon County 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. |