Explore Cotuit, Massachusetts, 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 Cotuit, Massachusetts. 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 Massachusetts 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 Cotuit.
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 | Cotuit |
| State | Massachusetts (MA) |
| County | Barnstable County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 41.616777 |
| Longitude | -70.43697 |
| Population | 3,500 |
| Density | 180.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 02635 |
| Area Code | 339, 351, 413, 508, 617, 774, 781, 857, 978 |
| County Seat | Barnstable |
Cotuit holds a singular posture upon the peninsula, where the land dissolves into the salt-edged periphery of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies 3.2 miles southeast of Mashpee, MA (from Mashpee, MA: bearing 134°T), and is situated 9.1 miles southwest of Barnstable. The horizon remains low and expansive, defined by the tidal reach of Lewis Pond and the quiet, brackish fingers of the Santuit River as it nears the shore. Beyond the immediate sweep of the coast, the subtle, distant rise of the Monomoy Island Dunes haunts the skyline like a ghost of geological time, while the salt air acts as a persistent patina upon the cedar-shingled architecture. Light here possesses a specific, silvered quality, catching the movement of the tides against the nearby silhouette of Osterville Grand Island and lending the shoreline a sense of perpetual, shifting transition.
Cotuit Memorial Park serves as the quiet anchor of the village, a green space where the legacy of maritime industry and the quiet persistence of the Yankee spirit remain palpable. Once a center for the oyster trade that defined the local economy, the village has long since traded its commercial fleets for a slower, more deliberate stewardship of the waterfront. The rhythm of life is dictated by the seasonal influx of the Atlantic Ocean, yet the character of the place remains fixed, resistant to the erosion of modern artifice. Whether tracing the path of the sun over the water or observing the stillness of the afternoon, one finds that Cotuit preserves a rare, unhurried gravity that feels both ancient and entirely present.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cotuit, Massachusetts. Coordinates: 41.616777, -70.43697. 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 Cotuit includes the ZIP code (02635), telephone area code (339, 351, 413, 508, 617, 774, 781, 857, 978), county seat of Barnstable County (Barnstable), and school district assignment.
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. |