Explore Napanoch, 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 Napanoch, 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 Napanoch.
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 | Napanoch |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Ulster County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 41.743982 |
| Longitude | -74.371542 |
| Population | 1,131 |
| Density | 304.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 12458 |
| Area Code | 845 |
| County Seat | Kingston |
| School District | Ellenville Central School District |
Napanoch occupies a quiet, verdant basin where the cool, persistent pull of the Rondout Creek defines the local geography. It lies 1.3 miles southwest of Wawarsing, NY (from Wawarsing, NY: bearing 215°T), and is situated 2.2 miles northeast of Ellenville. The landscape rises gradually toward the distant silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains, which rim the horizon in shades of bruised plum and slate gray as the light fails. Only a mile away, the stillness of Honk Lake offers a mirror to the sky, while the nearby Witches Hole suggests the deep, geological folds that characterize this inland terrain. Visitors might wander toward the rushing descent of Hanging Rock Falls, where the water fractures over stone, or seek the quietude of the Vernooy Falls Trail, which cuts through the dense, deciduous woodland surrounding the valley.
Napanoch maintains a singular identity shaped by its relationship with the land and the institutions that define its perimeter. The presence of the Ulster State Correctional Facility anchors much of the local economy, creating a steady, somber rhythm that contrasts with the seasonal shifts of the surrounding forests. Historically, the flow of the Rondout Creek once powered the mills that drove early industrial growth, leaving behind a legacy of stone foundations and forgotten infrastructure that still punctuate the modern streets. Life in Napanoch proceeds with a deliberate, unadorned focus, where the heavy dampness of the valley air in autumn seems to preserve the silence of the past, leaving the inhabitants to navigate a world caught between the rugged isolation of the wilderness and the practical demands of their daily labor.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Napanoch, New York. Coordinates: 41.743982, -74.371542. 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 Napanoch includes the ZIP code (12458), telephone area code (845), county seat of Ulster County (Kingston), and school district assignment (Ellenville 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. |