Explore Helena, 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 Helena, 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 Helena.
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 | Helena |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | St. Lawrence County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 44.921718 |
| Longitude | -74.726297 |
| Population | 280 |
| Density | 8.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 13613, 13649 |
| Area Code | 315 |
| County Seat | Canton |
Helena anchors itself to the steady, rhythmic pulse of the Saint Regis River, which carves a path through the low-lying terrain with a quiet, persistent gravity. It lies 8.1 miles east of Massena, NY (from Massena, NY: bearing 93°T), and is situated 4.5 miles south-southwest of Akwesasne. The landscape surrounding Helena is defined by an expansive, open stillness, where the Town of Brasher Land offers a vast, unadorned canvas of meadow and brush that stretches toward the horizon. Though the air often carries a faint, salt-tinged memory of the tides from Hopsons Bay just nine miles away, the immediate horizon is dominated by the dense, shadowed green of the Saint Lawrence State Forest Number 6. In the distance, the jagged, pale silhouettes of the Adirondack Mountains suggest a ruggedness that keeps the flat, water-rich earth of the immediate vicinity feeling sheltered and contained.
Helena persists as a place where the economy remains tied to the deliberate pace of the land, echoing the labor of those who first cleared the timber and worked the soil. The history of the area is written in the silence of the woods and the slow, dark current of the river, which provided the original energy for early milling and transport. Life in Helena moves with the turning of the seasons, far removed from the frantic pace of the state’s urban centers, yet connected to the broader region by the legacy of the Saint Regis River as a historic artery of trade. Residents often look toward the distant, thundering spray of Brasher Falls as a reminder of the water’s power, while the calm expanse of Blind Pond remains a quiet sanctuary for those seeking the stillness of the interior. Whether watching the light shift across the fields or listening to the wind move through the Saint Lawrence State Forest Number 6, one recognizes that Helena exists in a state of patient endurance.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Helena, New York. Coordinates: 44.921718, -74.726297. 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 Helena includes the ZIP code (13613, 13649), 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. |