Beaver Dams New York Map
Explore Beaver Dams, New York, 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.
Interactive Map of Beaver Dams, New York
How to Use This Beaver Dams, New York Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Beaver Dams, New York. 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 York 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 Beaver Dams.
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 | Beaver Dams |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Schuyler County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 42.291185 |
| Longitude | -76.959686 |
| Population | 580 |
| Density | 48.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 14812 |
| Area Code | 607 |
| County Seat | Watkins Glen |
About Beaver Dams, New York
Beaver Dams is a locality in Schuyler County, New York, United States. It is a small community with a population of 580. The population density is 48.0 people per km². Beaver Dams is located at 42.2912°N, 76.9597°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 14812.Beaver Dams occupies a quiet corner of the landscape where the steady current of Post Creek defines the local topography. It lies 11.1 miles northwest of Horseheads, NY (from Horseheads, NY: bearing 320°T), and is situated 15.9 miles north-northwest of Elmira. The land surrounding Beaver Dams rises in soft, muted swells, offering a terrain of dense woodlands and open fields that seem to hold the light of the late afternoon in a long, amber suspension. Less than a mile away, the quietude of Coon Hollow State Forest provides a dense canopy of hardwoods, while the deeper earth of Van Zandt Hollow lies five miles to the west, carving a path through the regional bedrock. This is a place where the horizon remains clear of the distant Appalachian Mountains, leaving the sky to dominate the view above the low-slung, pastoral ridges.
History in Beaver Dams remains tethered to the slow, deliberate work of the land and the modest industries that once harnessed the water of the creek. Though the economy has shifted away from the water-powered mills of earlier generations, the rhythm of life persists with a quiet consistency that mirrors the nearby waters of Seneca Lake, which rests only eight miles away. The presence of Cliffside State Forest, located fourteen miles distant, underscores the vast, unhurried reaches of the surrounding timberlands. Daily life here is marked by the shifting colors of the canopy and the persistent, low-frequency sound of moving water, grounding the residents in a tradition of land stewardship that has survived long after the initial settlement of the region.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Coon Hollow State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 1.1 mi, 291° W
- Beaver Dams State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 2.0 mi, 212° SW
- Beaver Vly Water Wks Land (Local Park) — 2.3 mi, 181° S
- Schuyler County Lands (Local Conservation Area) — 2.8 mi, 298° NW
- Steuben County of Land (Local Park) — 4.2 mi, 195° S
- Watkins Glen State Park (State Park) — 4.9 mi, 010° N
- Catharine Valley Trail (State Recreation Area) — 5.5 mi, 079° E
- Steuben County Lands (Local Conservation Area) — 5.8 mi, 199° S
- Cayuga-Seneca Canal (State Recreation Area) — 6.9 mi, 053° NE
- Catharine Creek Wma (State Resource Management Area) — 7.0 mi, 044° NE
- Schuyler County Historical Society (Museum) — 7.0 mi, 056° NE
- Point Lookout (Viewpoint) — 7.2 mi, 037° NE
- Mark Twain State Park (State Park) — 7.6 mi, 130° SE
- Hectors Falls (Attraction) — 10.0 mi, 028° NE
- Soaring Capital of America (Monument) — 10.1 mi, 159° S
- Crystal Cinemas 8 (Cinema) — 11.1 mi, 221° SW
- Centennial Sculpture (Public Artwork) — 11.3 mi, 204° SW
- The Glass Menagerie (Gallery) — 11.3 mi, 205° SW
- Kids Rockewell Art Lab (Museum) — 11.3 mi, 205° SW
- Palace Theatre (Cinema) — 11.3 mi, 206° SW
- West End Gallery (Gallery) — 11.3 mi, 206° SW
- Preemption Line (Monument) — 11.3 mi, 182° S
- Cedar Arts Center (Theatre) — 11.4 mi, 205° SW
- Painted Post Monument (Monument) — 11.5 mi, 217° SW
- Finger Lakes National Forest (National Forest) — 11.6 mi, 028° NE · 16k acres
- Elmira Heights Historical Society (Museum) — 13.2 mi, 148° SE
- Gibson Theater (Theatre) — 15.3 mi, 151° SE
- Greyton H. Taylor Wine Museum (Museum) — 16.0 mi, 307° NW
- Arnot Art Museum (Arts Centre) — 16.0 mi, 150° SE
- Chemung Valley History Museum (Museum) — 16.2 mi, 150° SE
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About This Beaver Dams Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Beaver Dams, New York. Coordinates: 42.291185, -76.959686. 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 Beaver Dams includes the ZIP code (14812), telephone area code (607), county seat of Schuyler County (Watkins Glen), 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. |
