Explore Carlisle, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Carlisle, 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 Carlisle.
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 | Carlisle |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Schoharie County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 42.757019 |
| Longitude | -74.445691 |
| Population | 1,400 |
| Density | 22.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 12031 |
| Area Code | 518 |
| County Seat | Schoharie |
Carlisle emerges from the high, quiet plateau of Schoharie County, defined by a landscape of limestone outcrops and expansive, fertile fields that catch the pale, thinning light of the afternoon. It lies 18.1 miles southwest of Amsterdam, NY (from Amsterdam, NY: bearing 226°T), and is situated 5.8 miles north-northeast of Cobleskill. The earth here holds a stubborn, mineral weight, giving rise to a topography where the ground dips into the limestone-fed limestone drainage of Cripplebush Creek, which meanders through the lowlands with a steady, unhurried persistence. Beyond the immediate pastures, the horizon is punctuated by the distant, hazy silhouette of the Catskill Mountains, a dark ridge that anchors the sky and dictates the cooling evening drafts. Further out, the terrain shifts into the deeper, shadowed basin of Ecker Hollow, where the air retains a heavy, damp stillness long after the sun has retreated behind the trees.
Carlisle maintains a character forged by generations of agricultural labor, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pulse of daily life more surely than the ticking of a clock. The economy remains tethered to the soil, with working farms and modest acreage forming the backbone of a quiet, industrious existence that has persisted since the early days of inland settlement. Residents often look toward the neighboring Montgomery County Lands for a sense of open, protected space, finding in the managed wild a reprieve from the persistent demands of field maintenance and livestock management. There is a particular, austere beauty in the way the morning fog clings to the fence lines of Carlisle, a visual reminder that this place operates on its own timeline, far removed from the frantic pace of denser, more crowded centers to the south.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Carlisle, New York. Coordinates: 42.757019, -74.445691. 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 Carlisle includes the ZIP code (12031), telephone area code (518), county seat of Schoharie County (Schoharie), 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. |