Explore Plattsville, Connecticut, 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 Plattsville, Connecticut. 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 Connecticut 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 Plattsville.
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 | Plattsville |
| State | Connecticut (CT) |
| County | Fairfield County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 41.222874 |
| Longitude | -73.256227 |
| Population | 1,131 |
| Density | 438.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 6825 |
| Area Code | 203, 475, 860, 959 |
| County Seat | Bridgeport |
| School District | Easton School District |
Plattsville occupies a landscape defined by the persistent, southward pull of the Mill River, which cuts a cool, shadowed channel through the local topography. It lies 3.4 miles west-southwest of Trumbull Center, CT (from Trumbull Center, CT: bearing 241°T), and is situated 4.7 miles northwest of Bridgeport. The earth here rises toward the modest, rounded summit of Hoyden Hill, providing a firm, stony foundation for the colonial-era foundations that linger in the soil. Moisture collects in the low-lying reaches, feeding the nearby Hemlock Reservoir, which sits as a quiet, silver mirror amidst the dense, second-growth hardwoods. Dover Park serves as the lungs of the local geography, a green expanse where the light filters through canopy leaves in long, slanted bars of amber as the afternoon wanes. Though the Atlantic is nearly twenty miles distant, the heavy, salt-tinged air occasionally drifts inland, reminding those who walk the riverbanks that the tides remain a distant, rhythmic pulse reaching toward Cedar Creek Reach.
Plattsville retains the quiet gravity of a place that once measured its prosperity by the turn of waterwheels and the output of small-scale mills. The economy has long since shifted away from the frantic industry of the past, settling into a deliberate pace where the preservation of old stone walls and the maintenance of modest, sturdy homes take precedence over expansion. While Fayerweather Island remains a distant landmark on the horizon for those who venture toward the coast, the daily life of Plattsville stays tethered to the interior, where the silence of the woods is broken only by the seasonal migration of birds or the infrequent rumble of a passing train. It is a place of understated persistence, where the modern world arrives in muffled, manageable increments, leaving the essential character of the lanes and the historical footprint of the settlers largely undisturbed by the passage of time.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Plattsville, Connecticut. Coordinates: 41.222874, -73.256227. 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 Plattsville includes the ZIP code (6825), telephone area code (203, 475, 860, 959), county seat of Fairfield County (Bridgeport), and school district assignment (Easton 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. |