Explore Hartford, 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 Hartford, 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 Hartford.
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 | Hartford |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Washington County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 43.363683 |
| Longitude | -73.393722 |
| Population | 2,400 |
| Density | 22.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 12838 |
| Area Code | 845 |
| County Seat | Fort Edward |
Hartford spreads across a landscape of heavy soil and disciplined fields, defined by the quiet labor of those who work the earth under a wide, unhurried sky. It lies 6.9 miles east of Kingsbury, NY (from Kingsbury, NY: bearing 90°T), and is situated 7.6 miles northwest of Porter. Big Creek cuts a persistent, narrow path through the lowlands, its waters carving into the silt just a mile from the center of Hartford, while the distant silhouettes of the Adirondack Mountains rise fifty-three miles away as a jagged promise on the horizon. The light here has a particular clarity in the autumn, catching the edges of the barns and the long, amber grasses that thrive in the cool air, far removed from the press of the coast. To the east, the woods of Rupert Town Forest hold a deep, persistent silence, and the calm surface of Lily Pond reflects the changing leaves, marking the slow transition of the seasons that dictates the rhythm of the day.
History in Hartford is written in the stone foundations of old dairy barns and the steady, generational persistence of agricultural life. The local economy remains tethered to the land, an inheritance of farming that persists despite the shifting demands of the modern world, while the proximity to the Champlain Canal six miles away serves as a lingering reminder of the historic trade routes that once connected these inland reaches to the wider world. The land dips into the quiet shadows of Rush Hollow, a place where the air hangs cooler and the pace of life seems to compress, matching the methodical habits of a population that values endurance over speed. Every fence line and gravel road speaks to a long-standing commitment to this specific patch of soil, where the work of the day ends with the long, cooling shadows of the evening and the quiet return of the stars.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hartford, New York. Coordinates: 43.363683, -73.393722. 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 Hartford includes the ZIP code (12838), telephone area code (845), county seat of Washington County (Fort Edward), 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. |