Explore Lyons, 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 Lyons, 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 Lyons.
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 | Lyons |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Wayne County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 43.06423 |
| Longitude | -76.990246 |
| Population | 3,989 |
| Density | 333.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 14489 |
| Area Code | 585 |
| County Seat | Lyons |
| School District | Lyons Central School District |
Lyons anchors itself firmly against the deliberate, slow-moving currents of the Erie Canal, which bisects the landscape with a silver precision that dictates the rhythm of the local geography. It lies 13.5 miles north of Geneva, NY (from Geneva, NY: bearing 357°T), and is situated 5.4 miles east-northeast of Newark. The terrain here is shaped by the quiet persistence of water, where the horizon is defined not by the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains, but by the grounded presence of expansive, fertile fields and the nearby Town of Lyons Land that preserves the quietude of the basin. While the air carries a faint, salt-tinged memory of the atmosphere found eleven miles away at Sodus Bay, the immediate surroundings favor the stillness of Sheers Pond and the subtle depressions of Skunk Hollow. The light in the late afternoon catches the canal’s surface, turning the water into a muted ribbon of pewter that reflects the heavy, cloud-laden skies typical of this latitude.
Lyons maintains a character forged by the intersection of industrial ambition and the enduring patience of a canal-side existence. The economy has long pivoted between the ebb and flow of commerce, reflecting a history where the construction of the canal transformed the movement of goods and people into a permanent fixture of daily life. Today, the pace of Lyons remains tethered to these historic arteries, where the architecture of the older storefronts stands as a quiet acknowledgment of generations who sought prosperity in the transit of heavy freight. Residents navigate their days with a steady, unadorned focus, finding a sense of continuity in the maintenance of the public spaces and the preservation of the land, far removed from the frantic density of downstate life. The local identity is not found in grand gestures, but in the enduring utility of the waterways and the steady, seasonal change that colors the landscape from the first thaw to the deep, silent snows of winter.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lyons, New York. Coordinates: 43.06423, -76.990246. 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 Lyons includes the ZIP code (14489), telephone area code (585), county seat of Wayne County (Lyons), and school district assignment (Lyons Central School District).
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. |