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Spencertown New York Map

Explore Spencertown, 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 Spencertown, New York

How to Use This Spencertown, New York Map

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

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	Spencertown
State	New York (NY)
County	Columbia County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	42.32342
Longitude	-73.545949
Population	480
Density	18.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	12037, 12165
Area Code	518
County Seat	Hudson

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About Spencertown, New York

Spencertown is a locality in Columbia County, New York, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 18.0 people per km². Spencertown is located at 42.3234°N, 73.5459°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 12037, 12165.

Spencertown emerges from the landscape as a quiet collection of white-clapboard homes and rolling pastures, defined by the persistent, cooling presence of Punsit Creek as it carves a path through the valley floor. It lies 15.1 miles south-southeast of Schodack, NY (from Schodack, NY: bearing 154°T), and is situated 3.6 miles east of Ghent. The air here holds a distinct, crisp quality, often carrying the damp scent of the nearby Town Of Austerlitz Land, where the earth feels heavy and ancient underfoot. Beyond the immediate fields, the horizon is punctuated by the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Catskill Mountains, providing a jagged edge to an otherwise softened, agrarian geography. A mile to the east, the stillness of Beaver Pond mirrors the changing sky, offering a reflective silence that seems to settle over the meadows long before the sun dips behind the western ridges.

History in Spencertown remains etched in the architecture of its older structures, which stand as quiet witnesses to an economy that has shifted from the labor of early mills to the preservation of a rural, contemplative life. The land sustains a rhythm dictated by the seasons rather than the clock, with the nearby Beebe Hill State Forest providing a dense, timbered backdrop that shields the locality from the faster pace of the world beyond. Residents navigate a landscape where the past is not a museum piece but a lived reality, evidenced by the careful maintenance of homesteads that look out toward the slopes leading toward Shepard Hollow. Whether the light is fracturing through the canopy or illuminating the mist rising off the damp ground, Spencertown maintains a deliberate, unhurried composure that favors the steady work of the land over the clamor of industry.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Town Of Austerlitz Land (Local Park) — 0.0 mi, 153° SE
Beebe Hill Multiple Use Area (State Resource Management Area) — 2.2 mi, 077° E
Village Of Chatham Land (Local Park) — 3.4 mi, 319° NW
Austerlitz Historical Society (Museum) — 4.0 mi, 107° E
Harvey Mountain State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 4.2 mi, 086° E
Summit View (Viewpoint) — 4.4 mi, 039° NE
Beebe Hill State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 4.5 mi, 063° NE
Performance Spaces for the 21st Century (Theatre) — 4.7 mi, 319° NW
Circle Museum (Museum) — 5.2 mi, 136° SE
Harlem Valley Rail Trail (State Recreation Area) — 6.9 mi, 222° SW
Shaker Museum (Museum) — 8.1 mi, 347° N
TurnPark Art Space (Arts Centre) — 9.0 mi, 086° E
The Foundry (Theatre) — 9.1 mi, 086° E
John M. Dahm and Jospeh B. Kennedy Memorial (Monument) — 9.2 mi, 303° NW
Martin Van Buren Statue (Public Artwork) — 9.2 mi, 302° NW
Mary Elizabeth Fisher Memorial (Monument) — 9.2 mi, 302° NW
Burial Ground (Monument) — 9.5 mi, 301° NW
Chesterwood (Museum) — 10.3 mi, 105° E
Norman Rockwell Museum (Museum) — 11.0 mi, 103° E
Bates Memorial State Park (State Park) — 11.0 mi, 049° NE
Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 11.2 mi, 263° W
Taconic State Park (State Park) — 11.4 mi, 166° S
New York State Lands (State Recreation Area) — 11.9 mi, 259° W
Orchard City Millage Sign (Attraction) — 11.9 mi, 134° SE
Community Access to the Arts (Arts Centre) — 12.8 mi, 126° SE
Concrete Bases (Attraction) — 13.3 mi, 073° E
Balanced Rock (Attraction) — 13.4 mi, 074° E
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 13.5 mi, 156° SE · 110k acres
Stone Pillar (Attraction) — 13.8 mi, 076° E
Silvio O. Conte National Fish And Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 24.2 mi, 089° E · 74k acres

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