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Belle Terre New York Map

Explore Belle Terre, 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 Belle Terre, New York

How to Use This Belle Terre, New York Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Belle Terre, 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 Belle Terre.

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	Belle Terre
State	New York (NY)
County	Suffolk County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.959821
Longitude	-73.067884
Population	808
Density	352.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	11777
Area Code	516
County Seat	Riverhead
School District	Port Jefferson Union Free School District

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About Belle Terre, New York

Belle Terre is a locality in Suffolk County, New York, United States. It is a small community with a population of 808. The population density is 352.5 people per km². Belle Terre is located at 40.9598°N, 73.0679°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Belle Terre is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 11777.

Belle Terre occupies a dramatic promontory where the land gives way to the restless salt air of Port Jefferson Harbor. It lies 2.2 miles west-northwest of Mount Sinai, NY (from Mount Sinai, NY: bearing 294°T), and is situated 10.0 miles northeast of Smithtown. High bluffs define the perimeter, their sandy faces worn by the persistence of tides that seem to hold the quietude of the shoreline in a state of suspended anticipation. Below these heights, the terrain drops away into the shadowed quiet of Crystal Brook Hollow, a verdant crease in the landscape that offers a cooler, sheltered respite from the salt-heavy winds. The natural topography is preserved with a deliberate hand, particularly within the wooded expanse of BELLE TERRE VILLAGE OF(PARK) Land, where the dense canopy obscures the distant, faint silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains, which remain a mere suggestion on the horizon.

Belle Terre maintains a character of sequestered privacy, its history rooted in the transformation of grand, early twentieth-century estates into a residential enclave that values the preservation of its wooded privacy. The local economy is defined by the quiet rhythm of its inhabitants, who reside in a landscape largely untouched by the commerce of the nearby harbor, focusing instead on the stewardship of the cliffs and the intricate ecology of the coast. While the bustling maritime activity of Port Jefferson Harbor dictates the pace of the surrounding region, Belle Terre remains an outlier of stillness, its residents looking out toward the water rather than engaging in the industrial currents of the shore. Life here is measured by the changing light upon the bluffs and the seasonal cycles that animate the local woodland, far removed from the pressures of the mainland, yet connected to the broader geography by the persistent, subtle influence of the sea.

Nearby Outdoor Places

TOWN OF BROOKHAVENC/O DEPT OF FINANCE Land (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 174° S
Muse Paintbar (Gallery) — 1.0 mi, 182° S
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 1.1 mi, 188° S
Suffolk County Bird Sanctuary (Undeveloped) (Local Conservation Area) — 1.3 mi, 290° W
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 2.0 mi, 237° SW
Little Bay State Tidal Wetland (State Conservation Area) — 2.1 mi, 256° W
Patriot'S Hollow State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 2.5 mi, 239° SW
Chandler Estate (Historic Ruins) — 2.5 mi, 097° E
Patriot Rock (Monument) — 2.6 mi, 247° SW
PJ Cinemas (Cinema) — 3.1 mi, 154° SE
Laurel Ridge Setauket Woods Nature Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 198° S
Kelli Harkins Memorial (Monument) — 3.7 mi, 090° E
North Country Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 4.1 mi, 092° E
Wolfie Statue (Public Artwork) — 4.2 mi, 222° SW
Avalon Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 5.3 mi, 233° SW
MovieLand Cinemas (Cinema) — 5.6 mi, 151° SE
Shea Theater (Theatre) — 7.7 mi, 177° S
The Pennysaver Amphitheater at Bald Hill (Theatre) — 8.4 mi, 164° S
Alfred E. Smith/Sunken Meadow State Park (State Park) — 8.6 mi, 251° W
Historic Lake Towers Hotel (Historic Ruins) — 9.2 mi, 198° S
Brookhaven State Park (State Park) — 10.1 mi, 100° E
Brookhaven Volunteer Firefighters Museum (Museum) — 11.2 mi, 110° E
Sloth Encounters (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 11.9 mi, 219° SW
Stewart B. Mckinney National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 13.9 mi, 344° N · 3,061 acres
Fire Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 14.0 mi, 170° S · 23k acres
Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.7 mi, 187° S · 7,995 acres
Art/Place Gallery (Gallery) — 16.0 mi, 322° NW
Housatonic Museum of Art (Museum) — 16.2 mi, 337° NW
Connecticut Audubon Birdcraft Museum (Museum) — 16.2 mi, 322° NW

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