Explore Hensonville, 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 Hensonville, 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 Hensonville.
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 | Hensonville |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Greene County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 42.289807 |
| Longitude | -74.216531 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 22.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 12439 |
| Area Code | 845 |
| County Seat | Catskill |
Hensonville occupies a sheltered floor where the landscape opens into the expansive reaches of Black Dome Valley. It lies 10.3 miles north of Edgewood, NY (from Edgewood, NY: bearing 359°T), and is situated 7.9 miles south-southwest of Durham. The Batavia Kill cuts a winding, limestone-streaked path through the basin, its waters running clear and cold against the mossy stones that line the banks. To the west, the silhouettes of the Catskill Mountains rise with a somber, slate-colored weight, catching the final, bruised light of the sun long after the valley floor has surrendered to shadow. The air here carries the scent of damp hemlock and cooling earth, a crisp reminder that the Windham Water District Lands remain an ever-present perimeter, guarding the quietude of the fields and the dense stands of hardwood that define the horizon.
Hensonville grew from the rugged necessities of early inland industry, shifting from the labor of sawmills and tanneries to a slower, more deliberate pace of life. The economy now moves with the seasonal pulse of the highlands, drawing those who seek the solitude found further afield on the Spruceton Trail or the stark, vertical beauty of Diamond Notch Falls. While the proximity of the Schoharie Reservoir provides a vast, glassy stillness to the broader region, the local character remains anchored in the stubborn resilience of the valley’s original homesteads. Today, life in Hensonville is measured by the changing textures of the forest canopy and the steady, unpretentious flow of the local creeks, holding to a cadence that ignores the frantic acceleration of the world beyond the peaks.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hensonville, New York. Coordinates: 42.289807, -74.216531. 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 Hensonville includes the ZIP code (12439), telephone area code (845), county seat of Greene County (Catskill), 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. |