Peru New York Map

About Peru, New York

Peru is a locality in Onondaga County, New York, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,843. The population density is 369.8 people per km². Peru is located at 44.5793°N, 73.5333°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 13080, 12972.

Peru stretches across a landscape where the earth dips into the quiet curve of Crab Hollow, a basin that holds the morning mist long after the sun has climbed above the horizon. It lies 5.8 miles west-southwest of Van Buren, NY (from Van Buren, NY: bearing 248°T), and is situated 6.0 miles west-northwest of Camillus. White Bottom Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the soil just a mile away, its banks lined with reeds that shiver when the wind catches the tall, pale grasses. To the north, the land rises in subtle, uneven swells, providing a vantage point from which one might gaze toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains. Beyond the immediate fields, the water of Cement Pond remains a dark, reflective mirror under the vast, shifting sky, while the presence of Big Island sits anchored in the distance like a heavy, green stone dropped into the quiet geography.

Peru maintains a rhythm defined by the steady, unassuming labor of those who work the surrounding acreage and manage the local commerce that keeps the streets vital. The Town Of Van Buren Land provides a quiet sanctuary for the shifting seasons, offering a space where the pace of life slows to match the turning of the leaves and the cooling of the air. History here is kept not in grand monuments, but in the enduring utility of the roads and the way the light catches the weathered siding of older barns as the day fades toward South Bay. Even as the modern world pulls at the edges of the horizon, there is a lingering stillness in the air that suggests the land remains patient, waiting for the evening tide of shadow to roll in from the coast, twenty-two miles away, to settle over the fields.

About This Peru Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Peru, New York. Coordinates: 44.579326, -73.533292. 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 Peru includes the ZIP code (13080, 12972), telephone area code (315, 845), county seat of Onondaga County (Syracuse), and school district assignment (Peru Central School District).

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.