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Montour Falls New York Map

Explore Montour Falls, 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 Montour Falls, New York

How to Use This Montour Falls, New York Map

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

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	Montour Falls
State	New York (NY)
County	Schuyler County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	42.347296
Longitude	-76.845235
Population	1,635
Density	209.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	14865
Area Code	607
County Seat	Watkins Glen
School District	Odessa-Montour Central School District

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About Montour Falls, New York

Montour Falls is a locality in Schuyler County, New York, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,635. The population density is 209.9 people per km². Montour Falls is located at 42.3473°N, 76.8452°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Montour Falls is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 14865.

Montour Falls anchors itself firmly within a deep, glacial basin where the earth seems to exhale a cool, persistent dampness. It lies 12.5 miles north of Horseheads, NY (from Horseheads, NY: bearing 354°T), and is situated 16.9 miles west-southwest of Tompkins. Catharine Creek carves a deliberate path through the landscape, its currents threading past the village streets before eventually finding their way toward the expansive, steel-gray waters of Seneca Lake only three miles to the north. Beyond the immediate lowlands, the terrain rises into steep, verdant slopes that define the local horizon, an environment distinct from the distant Appalachian Mountains. Within the Village of Montour Falls Land, the air often carries the scent of wet stone and moss, a sensory reminder of the nearby Havana Glen, where the water has etched intricate, narrow passages into the bedrock over countless seasons.

Montour Falls retains a historical character shaped by its placement at the crossroads of early industrial transit and the quiet, persistent rhythms of upstate agriculture. The local economy has long mirrored the changing tides of regional commerce, moving from the labor of early mills and canal-side trade to the measured pace of contemporary small-scale enterprise. Residents often walk toward the edges of the village to access the Finger Lakes Trail, linking their daily lives to the vast, forested corridors that extend into the nearby Cliffside State Forest. Life here is defined by this proximity to the wild, where the transition from the manicured lawns of the village center to the rugged, vertical forests happens with startling speed, leaving the inhabitants to navigate a balance between the permanence of stone foundations and the fluid, seasonal shifts of the creek.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Schuyler County Historical Society (Museum) — 0.0 mi, 021° N
Village of Montour Falls Land (Local Park) — 0.0 mi, 226° SW
Town of Montour Land (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 073° E
Catharine Creek Wma (State Resource Management Area) — 0.3 mi, 024° NE
Catharine Valley Trail (State Recreation Area) — 0.3 mi, 188° S
Cayuga-Seneca Canal (State Recreation Area) — 0.4 mi, 312° NW
Watkins Glen State Park (State Park) — 2.0 mi, 319° NW
Point Lookout (Viewpoint) — 2.4 mi, 321° NW
Texas Hollow State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 4.3 mi, 051° NE
Hectors Falls (Attraction) — 5.0 mi, 348° N
Sugar Hill State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 5.6 mi, 287° W
Connecticut Hill Wma (State Resource Management Area) — 5.8 mi, 088° E
Finger Lakes National Forest (National Forest) — 5.8 mi, 001° N · 16k acres
Mark Twain State Park (State Park) — 8.8 mi, 179° S
Muddy Fingers Farm (Attraction) — 12.1 mi, 358° N
Hunt's Christmas Tree Farm In The Finger Lakes (Attraction) — 13.1 mi, 029° NE
Soaring Capital of America (Monument) — 13.5 mi, 190° S
Remembrance Farm (Attraction) — 15.1 mi, 030° NE
Elmira Heights Historical Society (Museum) — 15.1 mi, 175° S
WWI Monument (Public Artwork) — 15.1 mi, 177° S
Unidentified Stone Tower (Historic Ruins) — 15.4 mi, 076° E
Ulysses Historical Society (Museum) — 16.2 mi, 036° NE
Shohola Monument (Monument) — 16.4 mi, 177° S
Preemption Line (Monument) — 16.4 mi, 202° S
Gibson Theater (Theatre) — 17.4 mi, 175° S
The Glass Menagerie (Gallery) — 17.7 mi, 217° SW
Kids Rockewell Art Lab (Museum) — 17.7 mi, 217° SW
Palace Theatre (Cinema) — 17.7 mi, 217° SW
West End Gallery (Gallery) — 17.7 mi, 217° SW

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