Explore Westford, 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 Westford, 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 Westford.
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 | Westford |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Otsego County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 42.650076 |
| Longitude | -74.797651 |
| Population | 145 |
| Density | 34.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 13488 |
| Area Code | 315 |
| County Seat | Cooperstown |
| School District | Schenevus Central School District |
Westford emerges from the rural silence of upstate New York as a landscape defined by the steady, persistent flow of Elk Creek. It lies 19.2 miles northeast of Oneonta, NY (from Oneonta, NY: bearing 45°T), and is situated 7.3 miles east-southeast of Cooperstown. The horizon is etched with the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Catskill Mountains, which cast long shadows over the varied topography of this inland terrain. Within the immediate reach of the landscape, the Town of Westford Land offers a quiet expanse of protected earth, while the nearby Hubbel Hollow creates a natural basin that catches the morning mist. A few miles away, the surface of Caryl Lake mirrors the shifting sky, and the distant, rhythmic rush of Buttermilk Falls provides a constant, subterranean pulse to the air. The light here in the late afternoon holds a golden, heavy quality, illuminating the texture of the fields and the deep greens of the surrounding woodlands with a clarity that feels both ancient and immediate.
Westford sustains a pace of life that favors the deliberate labor of agriculture and the quiet persistence of local industry. Generations have worked these soils, building a character forged in the seasonal cycles of planting and the long, cold quiet of winter that settles over the region. The economy remains anchored to the land and the modest commerce that supports those who reside here, maintaining a independence that avoids the frantic speed of larger, more dense urban centers. Every structure and fence line in Westford speaks to a history of self-reliance, where the community functions as a series of interconnected lives tied to the rhythms of the creek and the harvest. It is a place where the passage of time is measured not by the clock, but by the slow, inevitable changes in the foliage and the endurance of the land itself.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Westford, New York. Coordinates: 42.650076, -74.797651. 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 Westford includes the ZIP code (13488), telephone area code (315), county seat of Otsego County (Cooperstown), and school district assignment (Schenevus Central 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. |