Explore Cowlesville, 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 Cowlesville, 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 Cowlesville.
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 | Cowlesville |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Wyoming County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 42.843393 |
| Longitude | -78.46891 |
| Population | 580 |
| Density | 48.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 14004, 14037 |
| Area Code | 716 |
| County Seat | Warsaw |
Cowlesville occupies a quiet expanse of land where the landscape is defined by the steady, persistent movement of Cayuga Creek as it winds through the countryside. It lies 8.7 miles east of Elma, NY (from Elma, NY: bearing 93°T), and is situated 7.2 miles southwest of Darien. The terrain surrounding Cowlesville presents itself as an open, working topography, shaped by the slow accumulation of sediment and the unyielding pressure of the seasons. Sunlight here possesses a particular clarity, often catching the surface of Matts Pond, which mirrors the shifting, pale blue sky with a stillness that borders on the profound. To the distant horizon, the silhouette of Limestone Ledge provides a jagged, immovable boundary, standing in stark contrast to the low-lying, fertile fields that characterize the immediate vicinity. The Town Of Bennington Land provides a buffer of uncultivated space, allowing the local flora to assert a wilder, more chaotic rhythm against the orderly lines of the surrounding fences.
Agricultural enterprise remains the primary pulse of the local economy, maintaining a tradition that prioritizes the long-term utility of the soil over the rapid fluctuations of modern industry. The history of the region is written in the architecture of the older barns and the layout of the roads, which follow the natural contours of the earth rather than the rigid geometry of a surveyor’s grid. While the pace of daily life is dictated by the cycles of the harvest and the changing weather, there is a quiet resilience in the way the inhabitants organize their time. Residents often find themselves passing through the outskirts of the Erie County Reforestation Area, where the dense growth marks the transition between the managed farmland and the deeper, untamed thickets of the interior. Life in Cowlesville proceeds with an observant, measured gravity, reflecting a sense of place that is deeply rooted in the physical reality of the land.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cowlesville, New York. Coordinates: 42.843393, -78.46891. 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 Cowlesville includes the ZIP code (14004, 14037), telephone area code (716), county seat of Wyoming County (Warsaw), 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. |