Explore North Walpole, New Hampshire, 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 North Walpole, New Hampshire. 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 New Hampshire 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 North Walpole.
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 | North Walpole |
| State | New Hampshire (NH) |
| County | Cheshire County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 43.138967 |
| Longitude | -72.448144 |
| Population | 785 |
| Density | 436.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 03609 |
| Area Code | 603 |
| County Seat | Keene |
| School District | Fall Mountain Regional School District |
North Walpole occupies a rugged stretch of land where the Connecticut River carves a deep, deliberate path through the earth. It lies 16.6 miles north-northwest of Keene, NH (from Keene, NH: bearing 329°T), and is situated 0.4 miles north-northwest of Bellows Falls. The landscape is defined by the steep, looming presence of Fall Mountain, which casts long, cool shadows across the valley floor as the sun dips low in the afternoon. Only a mile away, the quiet waters of Middle Pond offer a stillness that contrasts with the constant, steady movement of the river. Beyond the developed edges of the village, the terrain rises into dense, tangled slopes that eventually bleed into the Bellows Falls Village Forest, where the air smells perpetually of damp needles and cooling stone.
North Walpole maintains a character forged by the practical demands of the interior landscape, where the legacy of industry once clung to the river’s edge. The economy here has long been tethered to the rhythmic demands of the water and the sturdy, unyielding nature of the granite found in the surrounding earth. Residents move with the measured pace of those who understand the seasonal shifts of a northern climate, finding their recreation in the quiet expanses of Unknown Park. Life in North Walpole remains defined by this balance between the persistence of the river and the quiet, persistent independence of a place that keeps its own counsel, far from the chaotic pull of the distant coast.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of North Walpole, New Hampshire. Coordinates: 43.138967, -72.448144. 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 North Walpole includes the ZIP code (03609), telephone area code (603), county seat of Cheshire County (Keene), and school district assignment (Fall Mountain 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. |