Rock Stream New York Map
Explore Rock Stream, 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 Rock Stream, New York
How to Use This Rock Stream, New York Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Rock Stream, 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 Rock Stream.
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 | Rock Stream |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Yates County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 42.471183 |
| Longitude | -76.927462 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 22.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 14878 |
| Area Code | 607 |
| County Seat | Penn Yan |
About Rock Stream, New York
Rock Stream is a locality in Yates County, New York, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 22.0 people per km². Rock Stream is located at 42.4712°N, 76.9275°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 14878.Rock Stream occupies a steep, sloping geography where the earth tilts sharply toward the deep, glacial basin of Seneca Lake. It lies 19.3 miles west of Tompkins, NY (from Tompkins, NY: bearing 273°T), and is situated 3.5 miles southwest of Hector. Gravity dictates the local character here, pulling the waters of Rock Stream down through narrow, limestone-walled gullies until they tumble in a persistent, rhythmic curtain at Glenora Falls. Sunlight filters through the canopy of the nearby Finger Lakes National Forest, casting long, thin shadows that stretch across the broken shale and damp moss of the ravines. The air holds a consistent, cool weight, smelling of wet stone and the sudden, sharp scent of pine needles during the transition between the humid afternoons and the chill that rises from the valley floor.
Rock Stream retains the quiet endurance of a place shaped by the slow, grinding work of geology and the modest ambitions of early settlers who harnessed the gravity of the slopes for small-scale milling. The local economy persists in a measured, seasonal cadence, defined by the cultivation of vines that favor the specific drainage of these hillside soils and the careful stewardship of the surrounding Town Of Hector Land. Life in Rock Stream moves with the gravity of the water, flowing away from the bustle of the distant, frantic world toward the steady, silent expanse of the lake. Travelers who venture away from the main thoroughfares to explore the nearby Ravine Trail find a landscape that remains indifferent to the passing of decades, holding instead to the ancient, vertical dialogue between the high ridges and the water below.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Town Of Hector Land (Local Park) — 2.4 mi, 060° NE
- Finger Lakes National Forest (National Forest) — 4.2 mi, 119° SE · 16k acres
- Hectors Falls (Attraction) — 4.8 mi, 140° SE
- Muddy Fingers Farm (Attraction) — 5.1 mi, 046° NE
- Sugar Hill State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 5.1 mi, 203° SW
- Unknown Park (Local Park) — 6.8 mi, 157° SE
- Cayuga-Seneca Canal (State Recreation Area) — 6.9 mi, 151° SE
- Watkins Glen State Park (State Park) — 6.9 mi, 164° S
- Point Lookout (Viewpoint) — 7.2 mi, 158° S
- Catharine Valley Trail (State Recreation Area) — 7.3 mi, 154° SE
- Catharine Creek Wma (State Resource Management Area) — 7.5 mi, 151° SE
- Rue Claire Lavender Farm and Artisan Chocolate (Attraction) — 7.6 mi, 027° NE
- Texas Hollow State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 7.7 mi, 119° SE
- Schuyler County Historical Society (Museum) — 9.5 mi, 154° SE
- Hunt's Christmas Tree Farm In The Finger Lakes (Attraction) — 10.9 mi, 075° E
- Keuka Lake State Park (State Park) — 12.1 mi, 307° NW
- Cornplanter (Public Artwork) — 14.1 mi, 331° NW
- Lake Street Plaza (Cinema) — 14.3 mi, 333° NW
- Interlaken Historical Society Community Life Museum (Museum) — 14.4 mi, 045° NE
- Ulysses Historical Society (Museum) — 14.4 mi, 072° E
- Greyton H. Taylor Wine Museum (Museum) — 14.6 mi, 259° W
- Yates County History Center (Museum) — 14.8 mi, 334° NW
- Curtis Memorial (Monument) — 15.4 mi, 252° W
- Sims-Jennings Preserve at Cayuga Cliffs (Nature Reserve) — 19.5 mi, 071° E
- Unidentified Stone Tower (Historic Ruins) — 19.7 mi, 104° E
- Peter Wheeler historic marker (Monument) — 20.7 mi, 074° E
- Soaring Capital of America (Monument) — 22.0 mi, 175° S
- Cinemapolis (Cinema) — 22.0 mi, 096° E
- Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 33.4 mi, 015° N · 20k acres
- Montezuma Marshes Nnl (National Monument) — 34.7 mi, 014° N · 4,306 acres
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About This Rock Stream Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rock Stream, New York. Coordinates: 42.471183, -76.927462. 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 Rock Stream includes the ZIP code (14878), telephone area code (607), county seat of Yates County (Penn Yan), 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. |
