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Three Mile Bay New York Map

Explore Three Mile Bay, 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 Three Mile Bay, New York

How to Use This Three Mile Bay, New York Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Three Mile Bay, 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 Three Mile Bay.

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	Three Mile Bay
State	New York (NY)
County	Jefferson County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	44.081442
Longitude	-76.198266
Population	187
Density	255.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	13693
Area Code	315
County Seat	Watertown
School District	Lyme Central School District

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About Three Mile Bay, New York

Three Mile Bay is a locality in Jefferson County, New York, United States. It is a small community with a population of 187. The population density is 255.1 people per km². Three Mile Bay is located at 44.0814°N, 76.1983°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 13693.

Three Mile Bay marks a low-slung transition where the earth softens into the expansive, slate-colored waters of Lake Ontario. It lies 16.1 miles west-northwest of Watertown, NY (from Watertown, NY: bearing 297°T), and is situated 4.0 miles northeast of Lyme. Three Mile Creek cuts a quiet, persistent channel through the local terrain, its steady pulse feeding directly into the broader expanse of Chaumont Bay. To the east, the silhouette of Indian Hill rises as a singular, muted punctuation mark against an otherwise flat horizon, while the distant, irregular shape of Lake Island looms over the water like a sunken fragment of the mainland. The quality of light here is prone to a pale, northern clarity, turning the coastal reeds to shades of burnt ochre and silver whenever the wind shifts off the lake. Visitors often gravitate toward the Lake Ontario Waterway Access, where the boundary between solid ground and the reach of the bay dissolves into a damp, rhythmic shoreline.

Economic life in Three Mile Bay has long been dictated by the seasonal temperaments of the water and the deliberate pace of those who navigate its edges. Historically, the locality grew through the quiet extraction of natural resources and the steady demands of maritime transit, tethered firmly to the rhythms of the fishing trade and small-scale agriculture. Today, the economy remains rooted in this legacy, with local life organized around the maintenance of boats and the quiet, seasonal ebb of the summer months. There is a particular, unforced dignity in the way the architecture clings to the banks, with weathered siding and sturdy porches designed to withstand the biting chill of the lake air. Life in Three Mile Bay moves with the gravity of the tides, a place where the stillness of the landscape is not an absence of activity, but a deep, settled presence that defines the character of the day.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Lake Ontario Waterway Access (State Recreation Area) — 0.1 mi, 105° E
Ashland Flats Wma (State Resource Management Area) — 0.7 mi, 355° N
Lyme Town of Land (Local Park) — 0.9 mi, 007° N
Chaumont Boat Launch (State Recreation Area) — 2.5 mi, 111° E
Chaumont Village of Land (Local Park) — 2.7 mi, 107° E
Three Mile Creek Barrens Preserve (Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 027° NE
Long Point State Park (State Park) — 3.6 mi, 191° S
Gosier (Monument) — 3.6 mi, 323° NW
Chaumont Barrens (Conservation Area) — 4.5 mi, 078° E
Point Peninsula Wma (State Resource Management Area) — 5.5 mi, 200° S
Cedar Point State Park (State Park) — 8.2 mi, 002° N
Tibbets Point (Viewpoint) — 8.7 mi, 279° W
Sackets Harbor Historical Society (Museum) — 10.1 mi, 157° SE
St Lawrence Gallery (Gallery) — 12.3 mi, 026° NE
New York Central Roundhouse (Historic Ruins) — 15.3 mi, 119° SE
Jefferson County Historical Society (Museum) — 16.1 mi, 118° SE
Little Theatre of Watertown (Theatre) — 16.6 mi, 114° SE
Potholes (Attraction) — 16.7 mi, 027° NE
Glacial Potholes (Attraction) — 16.8 mi, 027° NE
10th Mountain Division (Monument) — 17.4 mi, 118° SE
Fort Drum MWR (Attraction) — 19.6 mi, 094° E
Parc national des Îles-du-Saint-Laurent (Nature Reserve) — 21.7 mi, 026° NE
1000 Islands Gananoque Boat Tour (Attraction) — 21.8 mi, 026° NE
The Soldiers and Sailors (Monument) — 22.0 mi, 065° NE
Redwood Historical Society (Museum) — 24.7 mi, 053° NE
Grist Mill built in 1805 (Historic Ruins) — 24.9 mi, 077° E
Philadelphia Historical Society (Museum) — 25.0 mi, 078° E
St. Lawrence Islands National Park (Nature Reserve) — 29.8 mi, 036° NE

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