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Kinderhook New York Map

Explore Kinderhook, 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.

Interactive Map of Kinderhook, New York

How to Use This Kinderhook, New York Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Kinderhook, 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 Kinderhook.

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.

CityKinderhook
StateNew York (NY)
CountyColumbia County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude42.395362
Longitude-73.697898
Population1,170
Density214.7 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code12106
Area Code518
County SeatHudson
School DistrictKinderhook Central School District (Ichabod Crane)

About Kinderhook, New York

Kinderhook is a locality in Columbia County, New York, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,170. The population density is 214.7 people per km². Kinderhook is located at 42.3954°N, 73.6979°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Kinderhook is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 12106.

Kinderhook holds the quiet gravity of a place where the earth itself seems to have settled into a long and deliberate patience. It lies 8.6 miles south of Schodack, NY (from Schodack, NY: bearing 187°T), and is situated 7.3 miles southeast of Coeymans. The horizon is broken only by the distant, hazy silhouette of the Catskill Mountains to the west, while the immediate landscape is defined by the steady, dark transit of Kinderhook Creek as it carves through the local silt and shale. Within the boundaries of the Village of Kinderhook Land, the air carries a crisp, inland clarity that sharpens the edges of the old brick facades and the sprawling, mature trees. Not far from the stillness of Merwin Lake, the terrain yields to a mix of open fields and dense patches of timber, the geography favoring a slow, seasonal accumulation of mist that clings to the low-lying hollows until the sun gains its full height.

History in Kinderhook is not merely a collection of dates but a persistent weight held in the architecture of the eighteenth-century dwellings that line the streets. These structures speak to a legacy of agrarian prosperity, where the land once supported a thriving commerce of mills and orchards that defined the local economy long before the modern era. The nearby rush of Rossman Falls provides a constant, low-frequency hum to the countryside, a reminder of the water power that historically drove the local industry. Today, the pace of life remains tethered to these older rhythms, where the influence of past political figures lingers in the quietude of the town center, and the inhabitants move with the measured focus of those who understand that the character of a place is built through generations of attending to the same soil and the same enduring, inland light.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • John M. Dahm and Jospeh B. Kennedy Memorial (Monument) — 0.0 mi, 220° SW
  • Martin Van Buren Statue (Public Artwork) — 0.0 mi, 235° SW
  • Mary Elizabeth Fisher Memorial (Monument) — 0.0 mi, 236° SW
  • Burial Ground (Monument) — 0.4 mi, 267° W
  • Unknown Park (Local Park) — 0.4 mi, 135° SE
  • Kinderhook Village Lands (Local Resource Management Area) — 0.4 mi, 135° SE
  • Village of Valatie Land (Local Park) — 1.1 mi, 050° NE
  • Pachaquack Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 1.3 mi, 040° NE
  • State Univ College of Agriculture and Life Sci Ag* (State Resource Management Area) — 2.5 mi, 021° N
  • Nutten Hook State Tidal Wetland (State Conservation Area) — 4.4 mi, 229° SW
  • Hudson River Nerr Enhancement (State Conservation Area) — 4.4 mi, 229° SW
  • Charles Flood Wma At The Empire Brickyard (State Resource Management Area) — 4.9 mi, 223° SW
  • Performance Spaces for the 21st Century (Theatre) — 4.9 mi, 107° E
  • River Overlook (Viewpoint) — 5.0 mi, 297° NW
  • Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 5.3 mi, 228° SW
  • Schodack Island State Park (State Park) — 5.4 mi, 313° NW
  • Hudson River Islands State Park (State Park) — 5.6 mi, 227° SW
  • Coxsackie Theatre (Theatre) — 5.8 mi, 239° SW
  • Shaker Museum (Museum) — 6.6 mi, 064° NE
  • New York State Lands (State Recreation Area) — 8.1 mi, 210° SW
  • Bronck House Museum (Museum) — 8.3 mi, 246° SW
  • Greene County Historical Society (Museum) — 8.4 mi, 245° SW
  • Moh-He-Con-Nuck Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 12.3 mi, 344° N
  • Papscanee Island Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 12.7 mi, 348° N
  • Austerlitz Historical Society (Museum) — 13.1 mi, 118° SE
  • Circle Museum (Museum) — 14.4 mi, 128° SE
  • Cone Zero Ceramics School (Arts Centre) — 15.0 mi, 215° SW
  • Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts (Arts Centre) — 15.1 mi, 215° SW
  • Dutch Apple Cruises (Attraction) — 17.2 mi, 351° N
  • Fort Orange (Historic Ruins) — 17.4 mi, 351° N

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About This Kinderhook Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Kinderhook, New York. Coordinates: 42.395362, -73.697898. 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 Kinderhook includes the ZIP code (12106), telephone area code (518), county seat of Columbia County (Hudson), and school district assignment (Kinderhook Central School District (Ichabod Crane)).

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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.