Explore West Brookfield, 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 West Brookfield, 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 West Brookfield.
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 | West Brookfield |
| State | Massachusetts (MA) |
| County | Worcester County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 42.23537 |
| Longitude | -72.141189 |
| Population | 1,375 |
| Density | 420.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 01585 |
| Area Code | 339, 351, 413, 508, 617, 774, 781, 857, 978 |
| County Seat | Worcester |
| School District | Quaboag Regional School District |
West Brookfield rises from the damp, low-lying bottomlands where the steady, dark pulse of Coys Brook winds through the earth, carving a path toward the larger regional basin. It lies 7.6 miles west of Spencer, MA (from Spencer, MA: bearing 266°T), and is situated 5.3 miles east-southeast of Ware. The landscape is defined by a heavy, inland stillness, broken only by the wide, glass-flat surface of Wickaboag Pond that anchors the center of the terrain. To the north, the rise of Foster Hill provides a quiet vantage over the meadows, while the dense, shadowed timber of West Brookfield State Forest defines the southern perimeter. Beyond the trees, the Quaboag Wildlife Management Area stretches out as a vast, marshy expanse, its reeds swaying in the autumn wind under a sky that feels wider and more gray than the horizon suggests. The air here holds a distinct, metallic bite as the light fades, casting long, sharp shadows across the fields that have remained largely undisturbed by the frantic pace of the larger world.
History remains embedded in the soil of West Brookfield, marked by the remnants of early agricultural expansion and the slow, deliberate work of those who first cleared the timber to build upon the village green. The economy, once dictated by the rhythms of the harvest and the small-scale milling of timber, has transitioned into a quiet endurance, where the daily life of residents revolves around the maintenance of colonial-era architecture and the preservation of long-standing local traditions. The heritage of the place is not found in grand monuments, but in the functional, unadorned storefronts that face the road and the steady, repetitive tasks of maintaining the land against the encroaching thickets. It is a place where the passage of time is measured by the changing color of the leaves and the slow, seasonal migration of waterfowl through the protected wetlands, ensuring that the character of West Brookfield remains tethered to the physical reality of the ground beneath it.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of West Brookfield, Massachusetts. Coordinates: 42.23537, -72.141189. 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 West Brookfield includes the ZIP code (01585), telephone area code (339, 351, 413, 508, 617, 774, 781, 857, 978), county seat of Worcester County (Worcester), and school district assignment (Quaboag Regional 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. |