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Witherbee New York Map

Explore Witherbee, 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 Witherbee, New York

How to Use This Witherbee, New York Map

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

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

Latitude	44.087554
Longitude	-73.532906
Population	385
Density	151.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	12998
Area Code	845
County Seat	Elizabethtown
School District	Moriah Central School District

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About Witherbee, New York

Witherbee is a locality in Essex County, New York, United States. It is a small community with a population of 385. The population density is 151.8 people per km². Witherbee is located at 44.0876°N, 73.5329°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 12998.

Witherbee occupies a rugged, high-altitude reach of land where the earth seems to hold its breath under a canopy of dense, shifting hardwoods. It lies 23.5 miles east-southeast of North Elba, NY (from North Elba, NY: bearing 117°T), and is situated 3.2 miles north-northwest of Moriah. The terrain rises in firm, unyielding slopes that define the character of the Town of Moriah Land, a territory marked by exposed stone and the persistent growth of timber. Only a mile away, the quiet surface of Bartlett Pond gathers the reflection of the sky, while the nearby trickle of Bartlett Brook carves a narrow, persistent path through the iron-rich soil. To the distant west, the jagged silhouettes of the Adirondack Mountains anchor the horizon, their deep blue ridges standing as a silent, permanent boundary against the changing weather that rolls across the Four Mile Meadow.

Witherbee bears the imprint of a long-standing industrial heritage, once defined by the deep, subterranean pulse of iron mining that dictated the rhythm of daily life and shaped the local economy. The legacy of these excavations remains visible in the topography, a testament to the laborers who once drew their livelihood from the mineral-heavy veins beneath the forest floor. Today, the pace of Witherbee is measured and deliberate, moving away from the clamor of the extraction era toward a quiet, steady endurance. Life here is colored by the changing seasons, from the sharp, biting clarity of winter air to the slow, heavy warmth of summer, all observed from the vantage of a place that remains deeply rooted in its own distinct, inland history.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Town of Moriah Land (Local Park) — 0.5 mi, 327° NW
Buzz Wright Memorial (Monument) — 0.9 mi, 086° E
Hammond Pond Wild Forest (State Conservation Area) — 1.1 mi, 012° N
Limited View East (Viewpoint) — 2.8 mi, 106° E
Lincoln Pond Campground (State Recreation Area) — 4.0 mi, 327° NW
Meacham House (Monument) — 4.8 mi, 133° SE
Town Of Westport Land (Local Park) — 5.1 mi, 019° N
D.A.R. State Park (State Park) — 6.2 mi, 111° E
Giant Mountain Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 6.3 mi, 313° NW
High Peaks Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 6.6 mi, 264° W
Crown Point Historic Site (Museum) — 6.6 mi, 127° SE
Gage's Redoubt (Historic Castle / Fort) — 6.6 mi, 131° SE
Chimney Point State Park (State Park) — 6.7 mi, 123° SE
Historic Redoubt (Historic Castle / Fort) — 6.9 mi, 131° SE
Sharp Bridge Campground (State Recreation Area) — 7.4 mi, 244° SW
Northwest Bay Road (Monument) — 8.1 mi, 027° NE
Nature preserve (Attraction) — 8.5 mi, 101° E
Adirondack history center museum (Museum) — 9.4 mi, 342° N
Taylor Pond Wild Forest (State Conservation Area) — 9.5 mi, 357° N
The Vergennes Opera House (Theatre) — 15.1 mi, 068° E
Ticonderoga Arts / Downtown Gallery (Gallery) — 17.4 mi, 162° S
Robeby Museum (Museum) — 17.4 mi, 057° NE
Rokeby Museum Special Collections Library (Museum) — 17.4 mi, 057° NE
Star Trek Original Series Set Tours (Attraction) — 17.4 mi, 162° S
Adirondack Art Association (Gallery) — 17.8 mi, 030° NE
Bench and Table (Public Artwork) — 18.3 mi, 107° E
Cornwall Historical Society (Museum) — 18.3 mi, 118° SE
Battle of Carrilon (Registered Battlefield) — 18.3 mi, 157° SE
Green Mountain National Forest (National Forest) — 22.2 mi, 096° E · 412k acres
Bristol Cliffs Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 22.9 mi, 084° E · 3,750 acres

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