Septic records and services in Watertown, New York

We have not yet measured septic parcels or collected septic records for Jefferson County, New York, which covers Watertown. This page says what is and is not on file rather than filling the gap with an estimate.

What Watertown is, in the records

Watertown is a city in Jefferson County, New York. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 43.973292, -75.910039 and its land area at 9.03 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the city level, which is why every figure below is attributed to the county and linked back to the county page it came from.

What we hold for the county that covers Watertown

We have not yet collected septic documents from Jefferson County, New York, so for a Watertown property the county's own file is currently the only route. This page is about getting you to it, not about pretending we hold something we do not. The county publishes a records portal that we were able to search without creating an account, which makes checking a specific parcel something you can do yourself in a few minutes.

Start from who you are

Septic is one subject with very different jobs inside it. These go straight to the page that does yours.

Questions people ask

Does Parcel Perfect have a septic count for Watertown?

No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. We have not yet measured septic parcels or collected septic records for Jefferson County, New York, which covers Watertown. This page says what is and is not on file rather than filling the gap with an estimate.

Which county is Watertown in?

Watertown is in Jefferson County, New York.

Records and services around Watertown

• Jefferson County septic records — what we hold, and where the county keeps the originals
• New York septic regulations — the rules that actually bind here, which no page on this site restates from memory
• New York septic records index

ZIP codes that overlap Watertown

From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of Watertown’s land area that falls in each. A ZIP is not a place boundary and the two only ever partly agree, which is exactly why both pages exist.

• ZIP 13601 (100% of the city)

Nearest other places

Straight-line distance from the Census internal point of Watertown.

• Glen Park — 3.2 mi
• Brownville — 4.3 mi
• Pamelia Center — 4.3 mi
• Calcium — 5.6 mi
• Black River — 6.2 mi
• Dexter — 7.1 mi
• Felts Mills — 7.5 mi
• Fort Drum — 7.8 mi
• Adams Center — 8.1 mi
• Rodman — 8.6 mi
• Evans Mills — 9.4 mi
• Sackets Harbor — 10.4 mi
• Great Bend — 10.9 mi
• Deferiet — 12.1 mi
• Adams — 12.6 mi
• Chaumont — 12.9 mi
• Copenhagen — 13.0 mi
• Herrings — 13.4 mi
• Depauville — 13.5 mi
• West Carthage — 14.3 mi
• Lorraine — 14.5 mi
• Carthage — 15.3 mi
• La Fargeville — 15.4 mi
• Philadelphia — 16.0 mi
• Belleville — 16.1 mi
• Henderson — 16.2 mi
• Three Mile Bay — 16.2 mi
• Theresa — 17.7 mi

Get the septic design for a property here

Parcel Perfect generates a code-shaped septic design and as-built style drawing for a parcel from the records and site data we hold, and shows every parcel we have classified as septic or sewer on one map. Both are open to use for any parcel in Jefferson County, New York.

Open the parcel map and design tool