Explore De Peyster, 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 De Peyster, 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 De Peyster.
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 | De Peyster |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | St. Lawrence County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 44.552562 |
| Longitude | -75.435499 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 18.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 13633 |
| Area Code | 315 |
| County Seat | Canton |
De Peyster reveals itself as a quiet expanse of northern flatlands where the horizon is defined by the slow, deliberate movement of the sky over low-lying fields. It lies 13.4 miles west-southwest of Canton, NY (from Canton, NY: bearing 257°T), and is situated 10.1 miles south-southeast of Ogdensburg. The landscape is characterized by a steady, muted topography that gives way to the winding, shallow currents of Fish Creek, which marks the local drainage with a persistent, steady pulse. Three miles to the west, the air carries a faint, salt-tinged weight from the proximity of the Lower Big Bay, though the inland chill remains the dominant force. The Town of Depeyster Land serves as a quiet anchor for the local flora, providing a reprieve where the wild grasses grow tall and undisturbed by the passing of the seasons. Far to the south, the faint, jagged silhouette of the Adirondack Mountains haunts the distance, a reminder of a more rugged world beyond these plains.
De Peyster holds a history rooted in the quiet labor of the soil and the methodical rhythms of agriculture that have long dictated the pace of life here. The local economy persists in a state of modest self-reliance, with the land providing a meager but honest return to those who work its heavy, persistent earth. While the distant, shimmering surface of Hickory Lake offers a place for solitude, the daily life of the inhabitants remains tethered to the crossroads and the slow maintenance of the surrounding acreage. There is a singular, unvarnished quality to the light here during the late afternoon, casting long, lean shadows across the fields that seem to pull the history of the place into the present moment. It is a location of spare comforts, where the absence of grand monuments allows the simple, enduring character of the landscape to define the experience of those who remain.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of De Peyster, New York. Coordinates: 44.552562, -75.435499. 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 De Peyster includes the ZIP code (13633), telephone area code (315), county seat of St. Lawrence County (Canton), 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. |