Explore Alberhill, California, 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 Alberhill, California. 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 California 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 Alberhill.
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 | Alberhill |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Riverside County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 33.727242 |
| Longitude | -117.399764 |
| Population | 2,800 |
| Density | 55.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 92530 |
| Area Code | 909 |
| County Seat | Riverside |
Alberhill occupies a rugged expanse defined by the deep, earthen scars of Alberhill Canyon, where the terrain shifts abruptly from sun-bleached slopes to the riparian corridor of the Temescal Wash. It lies 4.4 miles east-southeast of Temescal Valley, CA (from Temescal Valley, CA: bearing 119°T), and is situated 5.8 miles northwest of Lake Elsinore. This landscape exhales a dry, Mediterranean heat that turns the grasses to brittle gold by midsummer, while the persistent, thin drift of marine air hints at the presence of Mariners Bay, only twenty-four miles to the west. To the south, the dense, shadowed canopy of the Cleveland National Forest stands in stark contrast to the open, scrub-dotted hills, offering a cool reprieve from the intensity of the Pacific light. On the horizon, the San Bernardino Mountains anchor the view, their distant, jagged profiles providing a permanent, stoic backdrop to the quiet basin.
Alberhill preserves a legacy rooted in the extraction of earth and clay, an industry that once defined the local economy and left behind a transformed, cratered topography. The proximity to Lake Elsinore, a mirror of water shimmering just four miles away, continues to draw those who seek an equilibrium between the demands of modern regional commerce and the slower pace of the canyon floor. Residents often look toward the East Horsetheif Trail for recreation, moving through a landscape that feels suspended between the industrial echoes of its past and the encroaching development of the valley. Life in Alberhill maintains a singular, quiet character, where the rhythm of the day is measured by the shifting shadows against the hills and the occasional, restless whisper of wind moving inland from the direction of Skippers Island.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Alberhill, California. Coordinates: 33.727242, -117.399764. 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 Alberhill includes the ZIP code (92530), telephone area code (909), county seat of Riverside County (Riverside), and school district assignment.
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. |