Cumberland Head New York Map

About Cumberland Head, New York

Cumberland Head is a locality in Clinton County, New York, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,735. The population density is 173.5 people per km². Cumberland Head is located at 44.7164°N, 73.4026°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 12901.

Cumberland Head extends as a narrow, limestone-fingered peninsula into the stillness of Lake Champlain, asserting a quiet dominance over the northern waters. It lies 2.7 miles east-northeast of Plattsburgh, NY (from Plattsburgh, NY: bearing 65°T), and is situated 19.1 miles north-northwest of Burlington. This landform serves as a sturdy anchor for the surrounding acreage, where the earth is defined by glacial till and heavy, dark soils that catch the low, slanted light of late afternoon. Beyond the immediate shoreline, the terrain levels into a series of modest, cultivated fields that stretch toward the interior, eventually giving way to the deeper, shadowed woods. On the clearest days, the jagged profile of the Adirondack Mountains marks the western horizon like a serrated blade, providing a permanent, distant backdrop to the localized movements of the wind across the water.

Cumberland Head maintains a character forged by its isolation and the slow, deliberate pace of life on the lake. The Town of Plattsburgh Land offers residents and visitors a quiet space to observe the seasonal shifts of the landscape, from the hardening of the ground in autumn to the gradual thaw that brings the roar of distant, seasonal meltwater. While the regional economy has moved away from the agrarian focus of the past, the rhythm of the place remains tethered to the natural cycles of the basin, far removed from the pressures of dense urban centers. Local life is punctuated by the proximity of the wilderness, where a quiet drive toward the interior leads toward the quiet flow of Dead Creek or the steady, vertical drop of Kent Falls, grounding the modern inhabitant in a geography that has remained largely indifferent to the passing of decades.

About This Cumberland Head Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cumberland Head, New York. Coordinates: 44.716432, -73.402634. 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 Cumberland Head includes the ZIP code (12901), telephone area code (845), county seat of Clinton County (Plattsburgh), and school district assignment (Beekmantown Central School District).

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.