Explore Pitcairn, 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 Pitcairn, 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 Pitcairn.
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 | Pitcairn |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | St. Lawrence County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 44.181174 |
| Longitude | -75.282147 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 8.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 13648 |
| Area Code | 315 |
| County Seat | Canton |
Pitcairn emerges from the landscape as a quiet expanse where the steady, dark waters of Jenny Creek carve a winding path through the heavy soil. It lies 27.1 miles east-northeast of Fort Drum, NY (from Fort Drum, NY: bearing 70°T), and is situated 8.5 miles southeast of Fowler. The terrain here holds a patient, unadorned quality, defined by the proximity of Toothaker Creek State Forest, which offers a dense, protective canopy of maple and hemlock just a mile away. To the west, the horizon is anchored by the faint, jagged suggestion of the Adirondack Mountains, while the air maintains a crisp, salt-tinged clarity born of the nearby Hitchcock Bay. At dusk, the light catches the surface of Toothaker Pond, turning the water into a sheet of polished lead that mirrors the slow, seasonal transition of the woods.
Pitcairn retains the character of a place built on the hard necessity of extraction and timber, where the local economy has long leaned into the rhythms of the land. The legacy of early settlement persists in the weather-beaten foundations scattered near the creek beds, remnants of an era when the forest provided the primary livelihood for those who cleared these corridors. Life moves in accordance with the turning of the seasons, from the deep, insulating snows of winter to the sudden, vibrant thaw that fills the lowlands with the rush of spring runoff. Residents often look toward the distant, mist-shrouded silhouette of Birch Island or make the short journey toward Greenwood Falls, finding in these landmarks a steady anchor for a life spent far from the frantic pace of the state’s urban centers.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pitcairn, New York. Coordinates: 44.181174, -75.282147. 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 Pitcairn includes the ZIP code (13648), telephone area code (315), county seat of St. Lawrence County (Canton), 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. |