Explore Virgil, 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 Virgil, 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 Virgil.
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 | Virgil |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Cortland County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 42.510627 |
| Longitude | -76.194374 |
| Population | 298 |
| Density | 128.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 13045 |
| Area Code | 315 |
| County Seat | Cortland |
| School District | Cortland City School District |
Virgil reveals itself through the persistent, low-frequency murmur of Virgil Creek as it carves a path through the valley floor, defining the topography with its constant, cool flow. It lies 6.3 miles south of Cortland, NY (from Cortland, NY: bearing 186°T), and is situated 8.8 miles south of Homer. The landscape here is defined by a series of steep, verdant inclines that rise abruptly from the Hollenbeck Hollow, creating a landscape of deep shadows and sudden, bright clearings. Sunlight in Virgil often feels brittle and thin, catching the edges of the hardwoods that spill over from the nearby James Kennedy State Forest, where the soil stays damp and dark long after a spring rain. Four miles away, the surface of Mud Pond remains a glassy, stagnant mirror, undisturbed by the currents that animate the creek, serving as a quiet anchor to the surrounding expanse of high-ground woods and seasonal wetlands.
Virgil maintains a quiet, agricultural composure, its identity shaped by the slow, deliberate labor of those who work the earth and manage the timber stands. The local economy persists in a state of modest, functional independence, far removed from the frantic commerce of larger centers, relying instead on the steady yield of the land and the endurance of its inhabitants. History here is marked not by grand monuments, but by the generational maintenance of barns and the preservation of woodlots that have stood for decades. Life in Virgil moves in accordance with the changing light of the seasons, where the primary concerns are the maintenance of the homestead and the seasonal rhythm of the forest, an existence grounded in the physical realities of a rural terrain that demands both patience and respect.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Virgil, New York. Coordinates: 42.510627, -76.194374. 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 Virgil includes the ZIP code (13045), telephone area code (315), county seat of Cortland County (Cortland), and school district assignment (Cortland City School District).
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. |