Explore Amador Pines, 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 Amador Pines, 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 Amador Pines.
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 | Amador Pines |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Amador County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 38.489631 |
| Longitude | -120.533305 |
| Population | 1,118 |
| Density | 89.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 95666 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| County Seat | Jackson |
| School District | Amador County Unified School District |
Amador Pines occupies a rugged stretch of high-altitude terrain where the persistent flow of Antelope Creek carves a cool, shadowed path through the earth. It lies 21.7 miles southeast of Diamond Springs, CA (from Diamond Springs, CA: bearing 132°T), and is situated 2.2 miles north-northeast of Buckhorn. The landscape around Amador Pines leans into the quiet austerity of the foothills, defined by the proximity of Eldorado National Forest, which begins its dense, evergreen expanse just a mile from the residential clusters. To the west, the distant Sierra Nevada stands as a pale, jagged silhouette against the sky, while the nearby Whitmore Meadow offers a sudden, grassy reprieve from the rocky, pine-studded slopes. In the late afternoon, the light here loses its harshness, casting long, bruised-purple shadows that soften the edges of the timber and grant the air a crisp, thinning clarity that feels detached from the warmer valleys below.
History in Amador Pines remains tethered to the slow cycles of the timber industry and the quiet persistence of those who sought a life among the high ridges. While the economy has shifted from the labor of early logging camps to a slower, more deliberate pace, the influence of the surrounding wilderness remains the primary arbiter of local life. Residents often look toward the ten-mile distance to Mount Zion State Forest for recreation, or make the six-mile journey to the quiet, reflective surface of Little Reservoir when the summer heat settles over the brush. Those inclined toward longer excursions may seek out the North Trail, a route that winds through the deeper woods and serves as a reminder of the vast, unpeopled spaces that define this region. It is a place of deliberate stillness, where the rhythm of the day is governed less by the urgency of the wider world and more by the seasonal turning of the forest and the steady, cold pulse of the creek.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Amador Pines, California. Coordinates: 38.489631, -120.533305. 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 Amador Pines includes the ZIP code (95666), telephone area code (530), county seat of Amador County (Jackson), and school district assignment (Amador County Unified School District).
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. |