Explore Pekin, 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 Pekin, 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 Pekin.
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 | Pekin |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Niagara County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 43.546737 |
| Longitude | -75.964641 |
| Population | 1,200 |
| Density | 120.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 13144, 14130 |
| Area Code | 315, 716 |
| County Seat | Lockport |
Pekin emerges from the expanse of Niagara County as a quiet intersection of fertile soil and persistent, inland stillness. It lies 5.6 miles north of Wheatfield, NY (from Wheatfield, NY: bearing 2°T), and is situated 9.0 miles north of North Tonawanda. The East Branch Twelvemile Creek cuts through the local topography, its rhythmic flow providing a constant, low-frequency pulse beneath the quietude of the surrounding fields. Nine miles to the north, the vast, slate-colored surface of Lake Ontario exerts a subtle influence on the regional climate, tempering the late summer heat and inviting the early, biting chill of autumn across the open plains. Beyond the immediate clearings, the landscape remains largely defined by its agricultural heritage, where the horizon stays wide and uninterrupted, broken only by the occasional silhouette of a barn or the dense, green reach of woodlots.
Pekin carries the quiet weight of a settlement forged by the steady hands of those who first cleared this heavy clay to plant orchards and grains. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythmic demands of the land, maintaining a pace that favors deliberate observation over the frantic motion of more urban centers. Residents find a particular, unadorned peace in the proximity of the Town of Cambria Land, a space that preserves the wilder character of the region against the encroaching geometry of modern development. Though the distant, muted elevation of West Hill marks the far edge of the traveler’s view, the true identity of Pekin resides in the daily persistence of its rural character, where the light at dusk settles over the fields in long, honeyed bars of gold, signaling the end of another day in the interior of the state.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pekin, New York. Coordinates: 43.546737, -75.964641. 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 Pekin includes the ZIP code (13144, 14130), telephone area code (315, 716), county seat of Niagara County (Lockport), 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. |