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Childwold New York Map

Explore Childwold, 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 Childwold, New York

How to Use This Childwold, New York Map

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

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	Childwold
State	New York (NY)
County	St. Lawrence County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	44.28645
Longitude	-74.663235
Population	280
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	12922
Area Code	845
County Seat	Canton

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About Childwold, New York

Childwold is a locality in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Childwold is located at 44.2865°N, 74.6632°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 12922.

Childwold endures as a quiet expanse where the Jocks Pond Outlet carves a persistent, liquid path through the terrain, defining the local topography with its steady, unadorned current. It lies 30.8 miles south-southeast of Potsdam, NY (from Potsdam, NY: bearing 149°T), and is situated 10.8 miles west-northwest of Tupper Lake. The landscape here is characterized by a dense, hushed wilderness that stretches toward the horizon, where the distant silhouettes of the Adirondack Mountains rise like faint, serrated ink strokes against the sky. Only two miles distant, the still waters of Massawepie Lake hold the reflection of the clouds, while the nearby Raquette-Jordan Boreal Primitive Area preserves a vast, untrammeled solitude that seems to hold the very breath of the north. Even the air carries a distinct, sharp clarity, cooling as it drifts from the direction of Brandy Brook Flow eight miles away, carrying the faint, bracing scent of damp earth and cooling stone.

Childwold bears the marks of a history rooted in the extraction of timber and the rugged isolation of the frontier, a legacy that remains visible in the sturdy, weathered architecture of its oldest structures. The local economy has long shifted away from the intensive logging camps of the past, leaving behind a pace of life that favors individual effort and a profound connection to the surrounding woods. Smith Island remains a quiet, forested curiosity within the nearby reach of the waters, a silent sentinel in the landscape that reflects the town’s long-standing relationship with the surrounding wild. In the evenings, as the light fades into a deep, bruised violet, the silence of the woods asserts itself, reminding those who remain that Childwold exists not as a center of commerce, but as a place where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the true measure of a day.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Raquette-Jordan Boreal Primitive Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.2 mi, 020° N
Raquette Boreal (State Resource Management Area) — 1.2 mi, 020° N
Grass River Wild Forest (State Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 301° NW
Cranberry Lake (State Resource Management Area) — 4.1 mi, 196° S
Mount Arab (Viewpoint) — 6.8 mi, 147° SE
Spring Pond Bog Preserve (Conservation Area) — 7.4 mi, 046° NE
Five Ponds Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 8.8 mi, 185° S
Cranberry Lake Campground (State Recreation Area) — 9.6 mi, 235° SW
Round Lake Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 11.0 mi, 172° S
Rollins Pond Campground (State Recreation Area) — 12.5 mi, 079° E
Higley Flow State Park (State Park) — 18.1 mi, 321° NW
Tannery Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 23.2 mi, 324° NW
The Narrows (Attraction) — 23.4 mi, 324° NW
The Tub (Attraction) — 23.6 mi, 324° NW
Lucy's Hole (Attraction) — 23.9 mi, 325° NW
Cathedral Grove (Attraction) — 24.3 mi, 325° NW
Russell Vetrans Memeorial (Monument) — 26.0 mi, 292° W
Adirondack Artists Guild Gallery (Gallery) — 26.4 mi, 084° E
NorthWind Fine Arts Gallery (Gallery) — 26.4 mi, 084° E
Minerva Statue (Public Artwork) — 30.2 mi, 330° NW
Plane Crash Site (Historic Ruins) — 30.5 mi, 101° E
Clarkson 9/11 Memorial (Monument) — 30.7 mi, 327° NW
Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake (Museum) — 31.0 mi, 158° S
Six Nations Indian Museum (Museum) — 31.1 mi, 062° NE
Pendleton (Monument) — 31.2 mi, 134° SE
Java Barn Music (Theatre) — 32.2 mi, 311° NW
Launders Underground (Theatre) — 32.4 mi, 311° NW
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery (Gallery) — 32.4 mi, 311° NW

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