Explore Crystal Beach, 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 Crystal Beach, 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 Crystal Beach.
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 | Crystal Beach |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Ontario County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 42.813677 |
| Longitude | -77.263592 |
| Population | 627 |
| Density | 355.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 14424 |
| Area Code | 585 |
| County Seat | Canandaigua |
| School District | Gorham-Middlesex Central School District (Marcus Whitman) |
Crystal Beach rests upon the glacial-carved banks of Canandaigua Lake, where the water holds a stillness that mirrors the vast, pale sky of the interior plains. It lies 4.4 miles south-southeast of Canandaigua, NY (from Canandaigua, NY: bearing 164°T), and is situated 6.8 miles west of Gorham. The landscape surrounding Crystal Beach is defined by the sharp, downward incisions of Gage Gully and the steady, rhythmic flow of Deep Run, which cuts through the soil toward the lake basin. Here, the earth feels heavy and fertile, characterized by deep woodland patches and open fields that stretch toward the distant silhouette of Maple Ridge on the horizon. Within the immediate perimeter of Ontario County Parks Land, the air carries a crisp, earthen scent, particularly when the low sun casts long, violet shadows across the damp leaf litter and the smooth, cold stones of the shore.
Crystal Beach maintains a quiet, deliberate pace of life that persists regardless of the seasonal shifts in the regional economy, which has long been anchored by the productivity of the surrounding agricultural lands. Generations have worked these slopes, moving between the small-scale commerce of the local interior and the maintenance of the public spaces that preserve the integrity of the lakefront. History here is felt in the architecture of the older dwellings, which seem to turn their faces toward the water as if waiting for the evening light to ignite the surface of Canandaigua Lake. The social fabric of Crystal Beach remains tied to the preservation of these natural reaches, ensuring that the intersection of the woods and the water remains a place of quiet observation rather than rapid industrial change.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Crystal Beach, New York. Coordinates: 42.813677, -77.263592. 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 Crystal Beach includes the ZIP code (14424), telephone area code (585), county seat of Ontario County (Canandaigua), and school district assignment (Gorham-Middlesex Central School District (Marcus Whitman)).
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. |