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Newcomb New York Map

Explore Newcomb, 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 Newcomb, New York

How to Use This Newcomb, New York Map

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

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	Newcomb
State	New York (NY)
County	Essex County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	43.969507
Longitude	-74.164595
Population	460
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	12852, 12879
Area Code	845
County Seat	Elizabethtown

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About Newcomb, New York

Newcomb is a locality in Essex County, New York, United States. It is a small community with a population of 460. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Newcomb is located at 43.9695°N, 74.1646°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 12852, 12879.

Newcomb emerges from the dense, evergreen silence where the Fishing Brook carves a persistent, silver path through the landscape. It lies 21.6 miles south-southwest of North Elba, NY (from North Elba, NY: bearing 209°T), and is situated 23.0 miles southeast of Tupper Lake. The air here holds a crisp, mineral clarity, anchored by the sprawling expanse of the Vanderwhacker Mountain Wild Forest that blankets the earth in every direction. To the north, the jagged, ancient silhouettes of the Adirondack Mountains rise against the horizon like a serrated blade, while the quiet surface of Newcomb Lake mirrors the shifting gray of the sky. Though the salt-scented atmosphere carries a phantom suggestion of the tides from Kellers Bay, the land remains defined by its deep, terrestrial interiority, where the light at dusk settles in long, indigo pools between the spruce and hemlock.

History in Newcomb is written in the rusted remnants of iron mines and the slow reclamation of the woods over former industrial clearings. The economy has transitioned from the heavy labor of extraction to a quieter reliance on the vast wildness, drawing those who seek the solitude of the Shattuck Clearing or the steady current of the local waterways. Life here follows the cadence of the seasons, marked by the arrival of snow that muffles the footsteps of the occasional traveler and the brief, bright intensity of a northern summer. It is a place where the human presence feels provisional, an arrangement made among the shadows of the peaks, where the inhabitants recognize the land not as a commodity, but as a persistent, watchful neighbor.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Vanderwhacker Mountain Wild Forest (State Conservation Area) — 0.0 mi, 118° SE
Vanderwhacker Mountain (State Resource Management Area) — 0.1 mi, 014° N
Newcomb Ski Slope (Attraction) — 0.8 mi, 225° SW
Town Of Newcomb Land (Local Park) — 0.8 mi, 214° SW
Lake Harris Campground (State Recreation Area) — 1.2 mi, 055° NE
High Peaks Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 1.3 mi, 356° N
Blue Mountain Wild Forest (State Conservation Area) — 1.4 mi, 148° SE
High Peaks (State Resource Management Area) — 1.7 mi, 000° N
Pendleton (Monument) — 2.5 mi, 271° W
Hudson Gorge Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 5.1 mi, 182° S
Balfour Lake overlook (Viewpoint) — 10.6 mi, 135° SE
Long Lake Boat Tours (Attraction) — 12.8 mi, 272° W
David Henderson Memorial (Monument) — 12.8 mi, 040° NE
Airplane Wreckage (Attraction) — 13.8 mi, 036° NE
Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake (Museum) — 15.0 mi, 243° SW
Mount Marcy First Ascent (Monument) — 15.5 mi, 050° NE
Plane Crash Site (Historic Ruins) — 16.7 mi, 018° N
Chimney Mountain (Attraction) — 19.7 mi, 190° S
Seagle Festival (Arts Centre) — 22.1 mi, 114° SE
Lake Placid Hall of Fame (Museum) — 23.5 mi, 022° N
Lake Placid Olympic Museum (Museum) — 23.5 mi, 022° N
Adirondack Artists Guild Gallery (Gallery) — 24.7 mi, 004° N
NorthWind Fine Arts Gallery (Gallery) — 24.8 mi, 004° N
Rt 30 Alien (Public Artwork) — 25.9 mi, 206° SW
Sugar Shack Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 26.4 mi, 239° SW
Adirondack history center museum (Museum) — 33.2 mi, 059° NE

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