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Bridgewater New York Map

Explore Bridgewater, 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 Bridgewater, New York

How to Use This Bridgewater, New York Map

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

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.

CityBridgewater
StateNew York (NY)
CountyOneida County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude42.879238
Longitude-75.250997
Population516
Density205.2 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Code13313
Area Code315
County SeatUtica
School DistrictMount Markham Central School District

About Bridgewater, New York

Bridgewater is a locality in Oneida County, New York, United States. It is a small community with a population of 516. The population density is 205.2 people per km². Bridgewater is located at 42.8792°N, 75.2510°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 13313.

Bridgewater reveals itself as a quiet expanse where the West Branch Unadilla River marks the low, steady pulse of the land. It lies 13.5 miles south of New Hartford, NY (from New Hartford, NY: bearing 172°T), and is situated 8.8 miles southeast of Hanover. The terrain here breathes through the expansive Bridgewater Flats, a basin that catches the pale, slanted light of late afternoon and holds it against the encroaching shadow of the woods. Nearby, the dense canopy of Beaver Creek State Forest offers a deliberate, hushed stillness, while the distant, hazy suggestion of the Appalachian Mountains provides a permanent, jagged boundary to the horizon. The air carries the scent of damp earth and cooling timber, a weightless clarity that settles over the fields long before the sun disappears behind the ridge.

Bridgewater functions as a waypoint of enduring labor, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of local life more surely than any clock. The economy remains tethered to the character of the soil and the legacy of agricultural persistence, visible in the weathered barns that stand like sentinels amidst the working acreage. Beyond the immediate reach of the valley, the rush of Button Falls and the glassy, sequestered surface of Gorton Lake offer respite for those who move through the landscape with a practiced, deliberate gait. History here is not a loud proclamation but a quiet accumulation of effort, found in the way the local roads follow the natural contours of the earth rather than forcing their own straight, modern will upon it.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Beaver Creek State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 1.2 mi, 216° SW
  • Albert J. Woodford Memorial State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 2.4 mi, 321° NW
  • Memorial Park Lands (Local Park) — 3.1 mi, 085° E
  • Water Works Village Lands (Local Resource Management Area) — 3.2 mi, 081° E
  • Sauquoit Creek Fishing Access (State Recreation Area) — 4.6 mi, 360° N
  • Village Of Waterville Land (Local Park) — 4.8 mi, 305° NW
  • Waterville Water Works Lands (Local Resource Management Area) — 5.1 mi, 315° NW
  • Otsego County Lands (Local Conservation Area) — 7.9 mi, 167° S
  • New York State Lands (State Park) — 12.5 mi, 109° E
  • September 11th Memorial (Monument) — 13.5 mi, 007° N
  • Capitol Theatre (Theatre) — 13.6 mi, 098° E
  • The Eagle (Public Artwork) — 13.9 mi, 001° N
  • Christopher Columbus (Monument) — 13.9 mi, 004° N
  • Bradford Auditorium (Theatre) — 14.2 mi, 326° NW
  • Thomas R. Proctor (Monument) — 14.2 mi, 001° N
  • The Other Side (Gallery) — 14.3 mi, 358° N
  • Childrens Museum (Museum) — 15.6 mi, 005° N
  • Erie Canal (State Recreation Area) — 15.8 mi, 005° N
  • Utica Tower (Attraction) — 16.4 mi, 005° N
  • Fort Herkimer Waste Weir (Historic Ruins) — 17.8 mi, 057° NE
  • Geographical Center of New York State (Attraction) — 18.1 mi, 280° W
  • Enlarged Erie Canal Aqueduct (Historic Ruins) — 19.6 mi, 348° N
  • Gilbert Lake State Park (State Park) — 19.9 mi, 164° S
  • Fenimore Art Museum (Museum) — 19.9 mi, 124° SE
  • Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum (Museum) — 20.6 mi, 127° SE
  • National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Museum) — 20.7 mi, 127° SE
  • Council Rock (Viewpoint) — 20.8 mi, 126° SE
  • Oriskany Battlefield (Registered Battlefield) — 21.4 mi, 344° N
  • Oneida Community Mansion House (Museum) — 21.8 mi, 305° NW
  • West Canada Lake Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 41.2 mi, 029° NE

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About This Bridgewater Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bridgewater, New York. Coordinates: 42.879238, -75.250997. 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 Bridgewater includes the ZIP code (13313), telephone area code (315), county seat of Oneida County (Utica), and school district assignment (Mount Markham Central 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.