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Altaville California Map

Explore Altaville, 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.

Interactive Map of Altaville, California

How to Use This Altaville, California Map

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

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	Altaville
State	California (CA)
County	Calaveras County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	38.083811
Longitude	-120.561869
Population	2,400
Density	55.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	95222, 95221
Area Code	408, 669
County Seat	San Andreas

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About Altaville, California

Altaville is a locality in Calaveras County, California, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,400. The population density is 55.0 people per km². Altaville is located at 38.0838°N, 120.5619°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 95222, 95221.

Altaville occupies the sun-baked expanse of Cherokee Flat, where the earth holds the heat of the afternoon long after the shadows have lengthened across the dry grass. It lies 26.9 miles northeast of Oakdale, CA (from Oakdale, CA: bearing 35°T), and is situated 8.3 miles north-northeast of Copperopolis. Cherokee Creek marks the western edge of the settlement, its bed often reduced to a stony ribbon during the long, rainless months when the golden weeds turn brittle and pale. To the east, the distant silhouette of the Sierra Nevada rises in a jagged, bruised-purple line against the sky, grounding the horizon in a permanence that the shifting heat haze above the valley floor cannot disturb. Residents find a quiet respite at Copello Park, where the shade of mature trees offers a reprieve from the relentless intensity of the inland light. Two miles away, the surface of Kiefer Reservoir mirrors the sky, a still, deep-blue eye reflecting the slow passage of clouds over the parched landscape.

Altaville retains the quiet gravity of a place built on the extraction of gold, its character shaped by the deep, subterranean scars left by early prospectors who tunneled beneath the town. The local economy, once strictly tied to the feverish pulse of the mines, has softened into a steady, modest rhythm of small-scale commerce and service that sustains the people who remain. Old stone masonry, crafted by laborers who understood the weight of the local earth, still stands as a reminder of an era when this flat land was the center of a frantic, global ambition. Today, the pace is dictated by the slow drift of dust in the wind and the seasonal cycle of the oak savanna, where the transition from summer’s dormant amber to the sudden, vivid green of winter defines the passage of time. Altaville survives not by grand transformation, but by the quiet persistence of its inhabitants, who have learned to live in harmony with the lean, honest demands of the terrain.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Copello Park (Local Recreation) — 0.5 mi, 291° W
Gateway Park (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 170° S
Mark Twain Monument (Monument) — 1.2 mi, 127° SE
Utica Park (Local Park) — 1.3 mi, 128° SE
New Melones (Resource Management Area) — 1.8 mi, 191° S
Vallecito Western Mine (Monument) — 3.4 mi, 080° E
Moaning Caverns Adventure Park (Attraction) — 5.3 mi, 101° E
New Melones Lake (Resource Management Area) — 5.4 mi, 174° S
Black Bart Playhouse (Theatre) — 6.4 mi, 056° NE
Murphys Pokey (Attraction) — 6.4 mi, 055° NE
Mercer Caverns (Attraction) — 6.5 mi, 044° NE
National Recreation Area (Nature Reserve) — 7.5 mi, 152° SE
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 8.1 mi, 095° E
California Caverns (Attraction) — 8.7 mi, 019° N
Stanislaus National Forest (National Forest) — 9.0 mi, 087° E · 901k acres
Springfield Armory/School/Store (Historic Ruins) — 9.2 mi, 118° SE
Historic Fallon House Theater (Theatre) — 9.4 mi, 112° E
Calaveras County Historical Museum (Museum) — 10.1 mi, 320° NW
Metropolitan Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 10.2 mi, 321° NW
Me-Wuk Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 10.3 mi, 111° E
Dunlavy Field (Stadium) — 11.5 mi, 124° SE
Jamestown Museum (Museum) — 11.8 mi, 140° SE
Tuolumne County Museum (Museum) — 11.8 mi, 126° SE
Veterans Memorial Military Museum (Museum) — 11.9 mi, 125° SE
Top of the World (Viewpoint) — 14.3 mi, 041° NE
Mokelumne River (Wild & Scenic River) — 17.6 mi, 343° N · 2,737 acres
Calaveras Big Trees State Park (State Park) — 18.1 mi, 046° NE
Tuolumne, California Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 20.3 mi, 128° SE · 8,379 acres
Eldorado National Forest (National Forest) — 25.4 mi, 009° N · 703k acres
Yosemite National Park (National Park) — 37.2 mi, 096° E · 743k acres

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