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Cumberland Head New York Map

Explore Cumberland Head, 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 Cumberland Head, New York

How to Use This Cumberland Head, New York Map

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

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	Cumberland Head
State	New York (NY)
County	Clinton County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	44.716432
Longitude	-73.402634
Population	1,735
Density	173.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	12901
Area Code	845
County Seat	Plattsburgh
School District	Beekmantown Central School District

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Town of Plattsburgh Land (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 163° S
Cumberland Bay State Park (State Park) — 1.1 mi, 322° NW
City of Plattsburgh Land (Local Park) — 1.4 mi, 283° W
Champlain Canal (State Recreation Area) — 2.1 mi, 254° W
First Building (Monument) — 2.6 mi, 240° SW
MacDonough Monument (Monument) — 2.7 mi, 243° SW
Trinity Episcopal Church - 1830 (Monument) — 2.7 mi, 244° SW
Champlain Valley Transportation Museum (Museum) — 3.1 mi, 222° SW
Clinton County Historical Museum (Museum) — 3.1 mi, 222° SW
Airplane (Attraction) — 3.3 mi, 222° SW
Point Au Roche State Park (State Park) — 3.5 mi, 016° N
Nina Winkel Sculpture Gallery (Museum) — 3.5 mi, 243° SW
Plattsburgh State Art Museum (Museum) — 3.5 mi, 243° SW
Amite Sculpture (Public Artwork) — 3.5 mi, 243° SW
Rockwell Kent Collection (Museum) — 3.6 mi, 244° SW
Regal Cinemas Champlain Centre 8 (Cinema) — 4.4 mi, 258° W
Valcour Island Primitive Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.5 mi, 187° S
Montys Bay Wma (State Resource Management Area) — 5.9 mi, 358° N
Pelots Point Nature Area (Nature Reserve) — 8.6 mi, 032° NE
Sand Bar Causeway (Viewpoint) — 9.7 mi, 129° SE
Taylor Pond Wild Forest (State Conservation Area) — 9.7 mi, 192° S
Ausable Chasm (Attraction) — 13.6 mi, 192° S
Milton Artists' Guild (Gallery) — 15.3 mi, 114° SE
Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 17.9 mi, 033° NE · 15k acres
Off Center for the Dramatic Arts (Theatre) — 18.5 mi, 149° SE
Showbox Theater (Cinema) — 18.8 mi, 151° SE
Abstractions Art Gallery (Gallery) — 19.0 mi, 151° SE

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