Explore Whitehall, 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 Whitehall, 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 Whitehall.
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 | Whitehall |
| State | New York (NY) |
| County | Washington County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 43.546013 |
| Longitude | -73.433778 |
| Population | 2,465 |
| Density | 168.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 12887 |
| Area Code | 845 |
| County Seat | Fort Edward |
| School District | Whitehall Central School District |
Whitehall commands a strategic position where the earth yields to the steady, engineered progression of the Champlain Canal. It lies 14.7 miles north-northeast of Kingsbury, NY (from Kingsbury, NY: bearing 26°T), and is situated 7.4 miles west-southwest of Fair Haven. The landscape surrounding Whitehall is defined by the deliberate intersection of man-made waterways and the rugged, unyielding terrain of the interior, where the air often carries the crisp, sharp scent of damp earth and cooling stone. To the north, the terrain softens toward the edges of Lake Champlain, while the distant, jagged silhouettes of the Adirondack Mountains anchor the western horizon in a haze of violet and charcoal. The light here at dusk settles heavily upon the water, turning the canal into a dark ribbon of polished iron that reflects the slow cooling of the day.
Whitehall serves as a portal into the regional narrative, having long functioned as a pivot point for inland transit and the movement of goods through the corridor. The local economy persists with a quiet resilience, tethered to the infrastructure that carved a passage through the rock and soil generations ago. Visitors often find themselves drawn to the Champlain Canal, which acts as both a functional artery and a public preserve, maintained as a SREC for those who wish to walk the towpaths and observe the water’s steady, rhythmic movement. The character of the life here is shaped by the transition between the dense, forested silence of places like Fair Haven Municipal Forest and the persistent, industrious history of the waterway, creating a rhythm of existence that values endurance over haste.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Whitehall, New York. Coordinates: 43.546013, -73.433778. 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 Whitehall includes the ZIP code (12887), telephone area code (845), county seat of Washington County (Fort Edward), and school district assignment (Whitehall 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. |