Explore Sail Harbor, 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 Sail Harbor, 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 Sail Harbor.
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 | Sail Harbor |
| State | Connecticut (CT) |
| County | Fairfield County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 41.529658 |
| Longitude | -73.466378 |
| Population | 175 |
| Density | 144.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 6784 |
| Area Code | 203, 475, 860, 959 |
| County Seat | Bridgeport |
| School District | New Fairfield School District |
Sail Harbor occupies a rugged expanse of high ground where the earth rises in slow, deliberate swells toward the base of Great Mountain. It lies 9.3 miles north of Danbury, CT (from Danbury, CT: bearing 356°T), and is situated 7.3 miles east of Patterson. The landscape is defined by the heavy presence of Lake Candlewood, which pulls the light of the sky down into its deep, still basin, while the surrounding terrain is broken by the jagged remains of stone walls that mark long-abandoned property lines. Nearby, the Pootatuck State Forest creates a dense, dark lung of timber that breathes cool air across the periphery of the village. The soil here feels ancient and unyielding, a rocky loam that resists easy cultivation, forcing the vegetation to cling with a stubborn, wiry persistence to the hillsides. During the transition of seasons, a thin, silver mist often clings to the drainage of Worden Brook, softening the sharp edges of the granite outcrops that define the local topography.
Economic life in Sail Harbor has shifted from the early reliance on timber and small-scale mountain milling to a quieter existence that honors the isolation of the Housatonic Valley. The architecture reflects this transition, with Federal-period brick structures standing as quiet sentinels over streets that retain the layout of an older, agrarian era. Residents maintain a steady, private pace, often looking toward the interior of the state rather than the distant, unreachable edges of the map. Those who seek the outdoors find their way toward the Pootatuck State Forest or the rugged stretches of the Candlewood Trail, where the terrain demands a physical engagement with the landscape. There is a distinct, persistent stillness in the air here, a sense that Sail Harbor belongs to the silence of the inland woods and the slow, heavy movement of the seasons across the high, broken country.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sail Harbor, Connecticut. Coordinates: 41.529658, -73.466378. 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 Sail Harbor includes the ZIP code (6784), telephone area code (203, 475, 860, 959), county seat of Fairfield County (Bridgeport), and school district assignment (New Fairfield 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. |