Explore Hecks Corners, Quebec, Canada, with this interactive street and satellite map. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above the map to switch views. You can “grab” the map and drag it to re-centre it, or use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out to street-level detail.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours — plus shaded relief, a labelled UTM grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.
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This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Hecks Corners, Quebec. 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 to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, 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).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Quebec or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Hecks Corners and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
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 Canada Base Map from Natural Resources Canada with Toporama contours layered over it — the CanVec topographic data behind the printed NTS sheets, and the mapping used for hiking, hunting, canoe routes and back-country travel. Relief shows shaded relief and hypsometric tints. The search box finds any Canadian town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Hecks Corners.
Reading the map like a paper NTS sheet. Click Grid to overlay the UTM grid, 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 — which matters in Canada, where declination runs from about 20 degrees west in Newfoundland to 20 degrees east in the Yukon.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what Canadian search and rescue 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.
Map search is available for a limited number of queries per session to manage costs. Be specific — search precisely for best results.
| Place | Hecks Corners |
| Type | Named Locality |
| Province / Territory | Quebec (QC) |
| Location | Clarenceville; Le Haut-Richelieu |
| Country | Canada |
| Latitude | 45.063333 |
| Longitude | -73.197778 |
| Postal Code (FSA) | J0J |
| Area Code | 263, 354, 367, 418, 438, 450, 514, 579, 581, 819, 873 |
| Importance | Village / hamlet |
| CGN ID | ELBIM |
Hecks Corners is a locality in Clarenceville; Le Haut-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada. It is classified as a village / hamlet. Hecks Corners is located at 45.0633°N, 73.1978°W.
Hecks Corners rests upon the flat, fertile lowlands of Clarenceville, where the horizon stretches wide under a sky that seems to hold more light than the earth itself. It lies 27.3 km south of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC (from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC: bearing 171°T), and is situated 8.2 km south of Henryville. The low-lying fields around Hecks Corners carry the deep, dark soil of ancient lake beds, a terrain shaped by the slow retreat of waters that once defined this entire region. To the east, the Rivière aux Brochets moves with a quiet, persistent gravity through the fields, while the expansive presence of Lac Champlain sits a few kilometers to the west, tempering the air and drawing the gaze toward the distant, hazy blue of the horizon. Near the old Colline School-House, the landscape retains the stillness of a long-settled agricultural past, where the geometry of fences and woodlots marks the work of generations. The local economy persists in the rhythm of the harvest and the maintenance of the land, reflecting a heritage defined by the labor of clearing heavy earth and the quiet persistence of those who remain here. In the early evenings, the light catches the metallic sheen of silos and the sharp lines of the schoolhouse, grounding the history of the settlement in the simple, enduring reality of the soil and the wind.
Hecks Corners s'étire sur les terres basses du Haut-Richelieu, là où le ciel semble peser d'un poids de cuivre à l'approche du soir, illuminant les champs d'une clarté presque liquide. Ce secteur, façonné par une tradition agricole tenace, déploie des horizons vastes qui s'inclinent doucement vers la Colline School-House, point de repère familier surgissant au milieu des étendues planes. À quelques kilomètres, l'air s'alourdit d'une humidité fraîche provenant du Lac Champlain, dont la présence invisible régule la respiration du sol et dicte les cycles de la terre. Non loin, le cours sinueux de la Rivière aux Brochets trace une frontière naturelle, charriant des reflets argentés qui captent les dernières lueurs du couchant. La vie à Hecks Corners se déploie avec une lenteur méthodique, rythmée par les travaux des champs et le passage des vents qui balaient ces plaines ouvertes sans rencontrer d'obstacle. Les bâtisses, isolées par la distance, conservent une simplicité austère, héritière d'une époque où la subsistance dépendait uniquement de la patience des hommes face à la rigueur climatique. Entre les sillons fertiles et la proximité des eaux, le paysage affirme une présence physique dense, presque minérale, qui impose le respect par sa sobriété et son silence immuable.
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Explore Hecks Corners, Quebec, Canada, with an embedded street and satellite map — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 45.063333, -73.197778. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Detailed location data for Hecks Corners includes the postal code (J0J), telephone area code (263, 354, 367, 418, 438, 450, 514, 579, 581, 819, 873). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Canadian city or town.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any Canadian town, county or landmark by name; offers the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours and shaded relief as base layers; overlays a labelled UTM grid so the map can be read like a printed NTS sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a UTM/MGRS 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 for Hecks Corners is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; Canada Base Map, Toporama and CBME © Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence — Canada); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |