Explore Felts Mills, 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 Felts Mills, 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 Felts Mills.
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 | Felts Mills |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Jefferson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 44.012403 |
| Longitude | -75.770123 |
| Population | 473 |
| Density | 311.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 13638, 13612 |
| Area Code | 315 |
| County Seat | Watertown |
| School District | Carthage Central School District |
Felts Mills draws its character from the persistent, rhythmic flow of Felts Mills Creek, which cuts a narrow, purposeful path through the low-lying terrain. It lies 2.2 miles southeast of Fort Drum, NY (from Fort Drum, NY: bearing 135°T), and is situated 8.0 miles east-northeast of Watertown. The landscape here is defined by a quiet, terrestrial stillness, far removed from the reach of any coast, where the air holds the crisp, heavy scent of damp earth and seasonal change. Beyond the immediate banks, the land stretches out toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Adirondack Mountains, which loom eighty-eight miles away as a faint, jagged promise on the northern horizon. The light at dusk settles over the fields in long, amber ribbons, illuminating the transition from the dense woodland to the open ground of the Jefferson County Lands, where the flora remains undisturbed by the slow, mechanical march of the modern day.
Industrial ambition once anchored the economy of Felts Mills, drawing power from the water to drive the wheels of early trade and manufacturing. The local identity remains tethered to this legacy of resourcefulness, even as the landscape has softened into a patchwork of rural quietude and scattered residential plots. Six miles to the south, the expansive, flat geography of Pine Plains provides a stark contrast to the slightly more uneven topography that buffers the creek, while the waters of Pleasant Lake lie seven miles distant, offering a steady, reflective presence in the surrounding countryside. Life here moves with the deliberate, unforced pace of a place that has long since negotiated its peace with the elements, finding a simple dignity in the way the wind carries across the plains and the seasons turn over the unhurried, inland soil.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Felts Mills, New York. Coordinates: 44.012403, -75.770123. 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 Felts Mills includes the ZIP code (13638, 13612), telephone area code (315), county seat of Jefferson County (Watertown), and school district assignment (Carthage Central School District).
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. |