Explore Oliverea, 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 Oliverea, 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 Oliverea.
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 | Oliverea |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Ulster County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 42.065369 |
| Longitude | -74.460152 |
| Population | 280 |
| Density | 8.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 12410 |
| Area Code | 845 |
| County Seat | Kingston |
Oliverea asserts itself as a quiet intersection of stone and timber, anchored firmly within the rugged verticality of the Catskill Mountains. It lies 13.7 miles west-southwest of Edgewood, NY (from Edgewood, NY: bearing 248°T), and is situated 5.0 miles southwest of Shandaken. The Esopus Creek carves a persistent, cold path through the bedrock, its rhythmic gurgle defining the acoustic boundary of the valley floor. Within the deep, shadowed folds of McKenley Hollow, the air remains heavy with the scent of damp moss and hemlock, while the expansive Slide Mountain Wilderness provides an untamed perimeter that dictates the limits of human settlement. Here, the light at dusk does not merely fade; it thickens, turning the hemlock boughs into silhouettes that press inward against the small clearings, reminding any traveler that the forest is the true landlord of this terrain.
Oliverea carries the weight of a local economy once tethered to the harvest of the woods and the slow, seasonal pulse of mountain life. The surrounding landscape, shaped by the proximity of the Slide Mountain Wilderness, remains largely indifferent to the frantic pace of the world beyond the peaks, favoring instead the steady maintenance of homesteads and the preservation of rugged paths like the Seager West Branch Trail. Visitors often venture toward the elevation of Winnisook Lake or seek the distant thunder of High Falls, yet the character of Oliverea is found in the stillness between these landmarks. The history of the region lingers in the stone foundations of vanished mills and the narrow roads that trace the contours of the earth, ensuring that life in Oliverea remains a matter of navigating the steep, deliberate geometry of the mountains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Oliverea, New York. Coordinates: 42.065369, -74.460152. 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 Oliverea includes the ZIP code (12410), telephone area code (845), county seat of Ulster County (Kingston), and school district assignment.
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. |