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Cato New York Map

Explore Cato, 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 Cato, New York

How to Use This Cato, New York Map

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

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	Cato
State	New York (NY)
County	Cayuga County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	43.168123
Longitude	-76.572999
Population	517
Density	201.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	13033
Area Code	315
County Seat	Auburn
School District	Cato-Meridian Central School District

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About Cato, New York

Cato is a locality in Cayuga County, New York, United States. It is a small community with a population of 517. The population density is 201.8 people per km². Cato is located at 43.1681°N, 76.5730°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Cato is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 13033.

Cato remains a quiet expanse where the light settles low over the fields, turning the grass to a pale, burnished bronze as the day retreats. It lies 6.3 miles west-southwest of Lysander, NY (from Lysander, NY: bearing 245°T), and is situated 16.3 miles north of Auburn. The land here gathers itself into subtle, rhythmic swells that hold the stillness of the interior, even as the damp air carries a faint, salt-tinged memory of the distant coastline twelve miles away. Parker Pond anchors the immediate horizon, its surface often mirroring the heavy, gray-bellied clouds that drift in from the north. Nearby, the water of Muskrat Creek cuts a narrow, winding path through the soil, carving a persistent rhythm into the earth that has outlasted the human hands that first broke this ground.

Cato carries the weight of its own endurance, defined by the steady, unadorned labor of those who work the surrounding soil and manage the Cayuga County Real Property R Land. The economy here is tethered to the slow turn of seasons, where the harvest and the maintenance of the land dictate the pace of life far more than the rush of distant centers. History exists here not in grand monuments, but in the way the local roads skirt the edges of Whiskey Hollow or how the shadows lengthen across the fields toward Hickory Island. There is a particular, solitary beauty in the way the evening settles over the barn roofs and fence lines, suggesting a place that does not ask to be noticed, but simply persists, rooted firmly in the quietude of its own geography.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Cayuga County Real Property R Land (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 231° SW
Cato Village Lands (Local Resource Management Area) — 0.3 mi, 055° NE
Cato Village Of Land (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 168° S
Northern Montezuma Wma (State Resource Management Area) — 4.2 mi, 247° SW
Northern Montezuma Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.8 mi, 248° W
Erie Canal (State Recreation Area) — 6.2 mi, 180° S
Oswego Canal (State Recreation Area) — 8.3 mi, 053° NE
Weedsport Theatre (Theatre) — 8.3 mi, 177° S
Unknown Park (State Conservation Area) — 9.6 mi, 197° S
Three Rivers Wma (State Resource Management Area) — 10.0 mi, 075° E
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 11.3 mi, 221° SW · 20k acres
Fair Haven Beach State Park (State Park) — 12.0 mi, 333° NW
Shacksboro Museum (Museum) — 12.1 mi, 095° E
Byron Lapp Memorial Trail (Monument) — 12.7 mi, 211° SW
Site of Crossover Bridge (Historic Ruins) — 12.8 mi, 211° SW
Clinton's Ditch (Historic Ruins) — 12.8 mi, 212° SW
Kallet-State Theatre (Theatre) — 13.2 mi, 036° NE
Lost World Museum (Museum) — 14.4 mi, 073° E
Montezuma Marshes Nnl (National Monument) — 14.6 mi, 214° SW · 4,306 acres
Bald Eagle (Public Artwork) — 15.5 mi, 217° SW
Harriet Tubman Gravesite (Attraction) — 16.9 mi, 180° S
John D. Barrow Gallery (Gallery) — 17.0 mi, 154° SE
Movie Tavern (Cinema) — 17.1 mi, 117° SE
Marcellus Veterans Memorials (Monument) — 17.3 mi, 137° SE
Marcellus Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 17.4 mi, 138° SE
Great New York State Fair (Attraction) — 19.3 mi, 110° E
Sainte Marie Mission Site Museum (Museum) — 19.7 mi, 105° E
Meteorology Observation Deck (Viewpoint) — 19.9 mi, 005° N
Lettie M Cook Memorial Forest (Nature Reserve) — 20.1 mi, 199° S
It's A Wonderful Life Museum (Museum) — 21.1 mi, 212° SW

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