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Darien Center New York Map

Explore Darien Center, 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 Darien Center, New York

How to Use This Darien Center, New York Map

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

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.

CityDarien Center
StateNew York (NY)
CountyGenesee County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude42.901171
Longitude-78.388631
Population1,200
Density120.0 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Code14040
Area Code716
County SeatBatavia

About Darien Center, New York

Darien Center is a locality in Genesee County, New York, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,200. The population density is 120.0 people per km². Darien Center is located at 42.9012°N, 78.3886°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 14040.

Darien Center occupies a quiet expanse of western New York where the land settles into a rhythmic pattern of agricultural fields and intermittent woodlots. It lies 11.5 miles east-southeast of Clarence, NY (from Clarence, NY: bearing 117°T), and is situated 1.9 miles west of Darien. Crooked Creek weaves through the terrain, its course marking the subtle depressions in the soil that guide the movement of local meltwater. To the west, the horizon remains flat and expansive, unburdened by the distant silhouettes of Limestone Ledge, which sits far enough away to appear as a mere smudge of color against the sky. The atmosphere here is defined by the heavy, seasonal shifts of the interior, where the air turns crisp and biting long before the first frost settles over the fields. Even in the height of mid-summer, the light holds a particular clarity, casting long, sharp shadows across the open acreage that define the physical boundaries of the landscape.

Agriculture remains the primary pulse of Darien Center, its legacy etched into the persistence of family-run operations that have worked these tracts for generations. The presence of Darien Lakes State Park provides a necessary counterpoint to the working fields, offering a protected corridor of regrowth and open water that anchors the local ecosystem. While the pace of daily existence is dictated by the turning of the seasons and the demands of the harvest, the locality maintains a steady, internal gravity that resists the frantic acceleration of more urbanized corridors. Life here moves with the deliberate weight of a place that understands its own isolation, grounded by the steady flow of the creek and the quiet resilience of a community that has found its own rhythm in the vast, inland plains of the state.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Darien Lakes State Park (State Park) — 0.2 mi, 333° NW
  • Flotation Station Lazy River (Attraction) — 1.7 mi, 004° N
  • Mind Eraser (Attraction) — 1.7 mi, 010° N
  • Tantrum (Attraction) — 1.8 mi, 008° N
  • Big Kahuna (Attraction) — 1.8 mi, 003° N
  • Akron Village Of Water Land (Local Park) — 2.3 mi, 144° SE
  • Akron Village Land (Local Park) — 2.5 mi, 152° SE
  • Field Of Dreams (Local Recreation) — 5.7 mi, 091° E
  • Attica State Correctional Facility (State Resource Management Area) — 6.4 mi, 119° SE
  • Groveland Secondary Trailway (State Recreation Area) — 7.2 mi, 089° E
  • Wende State Correctional Facility (State Resource Management Area) — 7.7 mi, 281° W
  • Monument (Monument) — 8.2 mi, 356° N
  • Holland Purchase (Monument) — 8.2 mi, 021° N
  • Akron Falls (Viewpoint) — 9.2 mi, 329° NW
  • Lancaster NIKE Base (Historic Ruins) — 10.7 mi, 281° W
  • Westwood Park (State Park) — 11.1 mi, 270° W
  • Statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Public Artwork) — 11.5 mi, 254° W
  • Clarence Lions (Monument) — 12.0 mi, 296° NW
  • Holland Land Office Museum (Museum) — 12.1 mi, 056° NE
  • Batavia Showtime (Cinema) — 12.4 mi, 057° NE
  • Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.3 mi, 359° N · 22k acres
  • Toy Town Museum (Museum) — 14.4 mi, 232° SW
  • Rusty Stove (Historic Ruins) — 15.2 mi, 178° S
  • ATA Performing Arts Center (Theatre) — 16.1 mi, 286° W
  • Spotlight Theater (Cinema) — 17.1 mi, 131° SE
  • Open-air ampitheater (Theatre) — 17.1 mi, 266° W
  • Buffalo AKG Art Museum (Museum) — 17.5 mi, 278° W
  • Erie Canal (State Recreation Area) — 21.7 mi, 354° N

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About This Darien Center Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Darien Center, New York. Coordinates: 42.901171, -78.388631. 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 Darien Center includes the ZIP code (14040), telephone area code (716), county seat of Genesee County (Batavia), 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.