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Piercefield New York Map

Explore Piercefield, 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 Piercefield, New York

How to Use This Piercefield, New York Map

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

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	Piercefield
State	New York (NY)
County	St. Lawrence County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	44.232005
Longitude	-74.569618
Population	480
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	12973
Area Code	845
County Seat	Canton

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About Piercefield, New York

Piercefield is a locality in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Piercefield is located at 44.2320°N, 74.5696°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 12973.

Piercefield defines the edge of the wilderness where the Raquette River cuts a dark, serpentine path through the dense, northern timberland. It lies 30.5 miles west of North Elba, NY (from North Elba, NY: bearing 269°T), and is situated 5.3 miles west of Tupper Lake. The air here holds a permanent, damp clarity, cooling quickly as the sun dips behind the distant, jagged silhouette of the Adirondack Mountains. Within the boundaries of the Town Of Piercefield Land, the terrain is marked by tangled undergrowth and the heavy, earthen scent of pine needles decomposing in the shade. Only two miles to the north, the glass-still surface of Raquette Pond reflects the sky, while the nearby Sols Island rises from the water like a lonely, forested sentinel. Three miles further, the influence of the coast reaches inland, bringing a brackish, salt-heavy breeze that drifts toward the bay, stirring the reeds along the water’s edge.

Piercefield carries the quiet, weathered gravity of a place built on the strength of the timber industry and the relentless flow of the river. The local economy has long been tethered to the harvest of the surrounding woods, a labor that has carved a pragmatic, unpretentious character into the people who reside here. Remnants of old sawmills and the steady, rhythmic pulse of the river serve as a reminder of an era when the water provided the primary artery for commerce. Life in Piercefield moves at the pace of the seasons, dictated by the encroaching frost and the brief, bright intensity of the summer months. There is no pretense in the way the morning light hits the weathered siding of the local buildings, nor in the solitude of a landscape that demands a certain, sturdy resilience from anyone who calls it home.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Town Of Piercefield Land (Local Park) — 0.0 mi, 024° NE
Raquette-Jordan Boreal Primitive Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.2 mi, 357° N
Raquette Boreal (State Resource Management Area) — 0.2 mi, 002° N
Horseshoe Lake Wild Forest (State Conservation Area) — 1.3 mi, 179° S
Town of Tupper Lake Land (Local Park) — 2.0 mi, 084° E
Mount Arab (Viewpoint) — 2.1 mi, 206° SW
Saranac Lakes (State Resource Management Area) — 6.2 mi, 090° E
Five Ponds Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 7.7 mi, 209° SW
Round Lake Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 7.9 mi, 182° S
Rollins Pond Campground (State Recreation Area) — 9.4 mi, 057° NE
Fish Creek Pond Campground (State Recreation Area) — 10.3 mi, 064° NE
Long Lake Boat Tours (Attraction) — 19.3 mi, 158° S
Adirondack Artists Guild Gallery (Gallery) — 22.6 mi, 073° E
NorthWind Fine Arts Gallery (Gallery) — 22.6 mi, 073° E
Mckenzie Pond Bouldering Access (appx) (Attraction) — 24.0 mi, 078° E
Pendleton (Monument) — 25.2 mi, 136° SE
Plane Crash Site (Historic Ruins) — 25.4 mi, 095° E
Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake (Museum) — 25.9 mi, 165° S
Newcomb Ski Slope (Attraction) — 27.0 mi, 134° SE
Tannery Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 29.0 mi, 321° NW
Airplane Wreckage (Attraction) — 29.0 mi, 104° E
Lake Placid Hall of Fame (Museum) — 29.2 mi, 083° E
Lake Placid Olympic Museum (Museum) — 29.2 mi, 083° E
Historic Marker for Timbuctoo (Monument) — 29.2 mi, 085° E
Kate Smith Memorial (Monument) — 29.2 mi, 083° E
Six Nations Indian Museum (Museum) — 29.3 mi, 051° NE
Iron Cross (Public Artwork) — 31.9 mi, 184° S
Java Barn Music (Theatre) — 38.1 mi, 310° NW

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