Explore Freedom, 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 Freedom, 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 Freedom.
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 | Freedom |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Cattaraugus County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 42.484785 |
| Longitude | -78.331126 |
| Population | 2,400 |
| Density | 35.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 14065 |
| Area Code | 716 |
| County Seat | Little Valley |
Freedom stretches across a landscape defined by the persistent, cooling presence of Clear Creek, which carves a path through the low-lying terrain. It lies 26.7 miles southeast of Ellicott, NY (from Ellicott, NY: bearing 130°T), and is situated 9.8 miles east-southeast of Sardinia. The ground here holds a quiet weight, rising toward the hazy outline of Cream Ridge on the distant horizon, while the local topography remains defined by the presence of Town Of Freedom Land, a sprawling expanse that dictates the pace of the surrounding acreage. A mile away, the surface of Moores Pond catches the light during the long, amber hours of dusk, reflecting the sky in a way that makes the water seem thicker, almost metallic, against the dark soil of the fields.
Agriculture remains the primary pulse of Freedom, where the rhythm of the seasons is measured in the rotation of crops and the slow maturation of the timber stands. The legacy of early settlement persists in the heavy stone foundations and the deep, silent barns that weather the winters with a stoic, unyielding grace. While the influence of the Erie County Reforestation Area lingers in the dense, managed growth that marks the outer boundaries of the region, the internal life of the place remains fixed on the steady labor of the land. Economic life here is sparse and grounded, moving forward with the deliberate, measured cadence of a place that has long since learned to rely on the yield of the earth and the predictable turn of the calendar.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Freedom, New York. Coordinates: 42.484785, -78.331126. 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 Freedom includes the ZIP code (14065), telephone area code (716), county seat of Cattaraugus County (Little Valley), 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. |