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Otego New York Map

Explore Otego, 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 Otego, New York

How to Use This Otego, New York Map

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

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.

CityOtego
StateNew York (NY)
CountyOtsego County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude42.397302
Longitude-75.173502
Population875
Density291.5 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code13825
Area Code315
County SeatCooperstown
School DistrictOtego-Unadilla Central School District

About Otego, New York

Otego is a locality in Otsego County, New York, United States. It is a small community with a population of 875. The population density is 291.5 people per km². Otego is located at 42.3973°N, 75.1735°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Otego is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 13825.

Otego commands a quiet authority over the landscape, where the Otsdawa Creek carves a persistent, silver path through the low-lying terrain. It lies 6.8 miles southwest of Oneonta, NY (from Oneonta, NY: bearing 236°T), and is situated 12.5 miles east-northeast of Sidney. The air here holds a crisp, persistent chill that seems to linger long after the morning frost has retreated from the fields. To the west, the distant silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains loom against the horizon, providing a permanent, jagged backdrop to the expansive, open meadows. Within the immediate vicinity, the Town Of Otego Land offers a tract of quiet earth where the natural grasses sway in sync with the regional winds. Six miles to the east, the deep, shadowed depression of Hell Hollow acts as a terrestrial anchor, while Pat Pond sits five miles away, its surface often mirroring the muted gray of a late-autumn sky.

Otego remains a place defined by the slow, deliberate work of the inland soil, where the local economy has long been tethered to the rhythms of agriculture and small-scale enterprise. The patterns of settlement here reflect a legacy of endurance, echoing the hard-won stability of those who first cleared the timber and organized the grid of these roads. While the industrial centers of the state hum with a different frequency, the life of Otego maintains a steady, internal pulse, focused on the maintenance of the homestead and the seasonal cycle of the harvest. There is a profound stillness in the way the light catches the dried corn stalks or the weathered siding of a barn, a visual honesty that suggests a history built more on labor than on grand spectacle. Even as the modern world pushes at its borders, Otego retains a singular, unadorned character, grounded in the simple, necessary commerce of a rural life.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Town Of Otego Land (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 344° N
  • Village Of Otego Land (Local Park) — 1.1 mi, 337° NW
  • Wellsbridge Water Lands (Local Resource Management Area) — 3.3 mi, 258° W
  • Otsego County Lands (Local Conservation Area) — 3.6 mi, 244° SW
  • Wright National Soccer Campus (Local Recreation) — 4.6 mi, 042° NE
  • East Sidney Lake (Recreation Area) — 4.9 mi, 193° S
  • Oneonta Little League (Local Recreation) — 5.9 mi, 059° NE
  • Table Rock Outlook (Viewpoint) — 6.3 mi, 050° NE
  • Schines Oneonta Theatre (Theatre) — 6.8 mi, 055° NE
  • Foothills Performing Arts Center (Theatre) — 6.8 mi, 056° NE
  • Oneonta History Centre (Museum) — 6.9 mi, 055° NE
  • Statue of Liberty Replica (Public Artwork) — 7.0 mi, 058° NE
  • Southside Mall Cinema (Cinema) — 7.4 mi, 062° NE
  • Organ. Of Ancillary Services Lands (State Recreation Area) — 8.4 mi, 039° NE
  • General Jacob Morris State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 9.7 mi, 321° NW
  • Pine Hill State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 11.7 mi, 223° SW
  • Robert V. Riddell State Park (State Park) — 11.9 mi, 061° NE
  • Gilbert Lake State Park (State Park) — 12.1 mi, 009° N
  • Sidney Veterans Memorial Park (Monument) — 13.2 mi, 243° SW
  • Bushel Collective (Arts Centre) — 15.5 mi, 122° SE
  • White Rock (Attraction) — 16.0 mi, 170° S
  • Handen Covered Bridge (Monument) — 16.8 mi, 146° SE
  • Golf Driving Range (Attraction) — 19.7 mi, 253° W
  • Northeast Classic Car Museum (Museum) — 20.2 mi, 299° NW
  • Site of the Prophet Trial (Attraction) — 21.5 mi, 237° SW
  • Home of Squire Zachariah Tarble (Attraction) — 21.5 mi, 236° SW
  • 6 On the Square (Arts Centre) — 21.9 mi, 278° W
  • James Fenimore Cooper Statue (Monument) — 24.5 mi, 031° NE
  • Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum (Museum) — 24.5 mi, 031° NE
  • National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Museum) — 24.5 mi, 031° NE

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About This Otego Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Otego, New York. Coordinates: 42.397302, -75.173502. 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 Otego includes the ZIP code (13825), telephone area code (315), county seat of Otsego County (Cooperstown), and school district assignment (Otego-Unadilla 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.