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Badger California Map

Explore Badger, 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 Badger, California

How to Use This Badger, California Map

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

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

Latitude	36.631337
Longitude	-119.013162
Population	280
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	93641, 93603
Area Code	760
County Seat	Visalia

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About Badger, California

Badger is a locality in Tulare County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Badger is located at 36.6313°N, 119.0132°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 93641, 93603.

Badger emerges from the high, golden-hued foothills where the landscape tilts toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Sierra Nevada. It lies 21.6 miles east-northeast of Dinuba, CA (from Dinuba, CA: bearing 74°T), and is situated 16.7 miles east of Orange Cove. Badger Creek carves a persistent, winding path through the terrain, its banks lined with the gnarled, dark silhouettes of oaks that hold the morning chill long after the sun has climbed. To the east, the horizon swells into the vast, shadowed expanse of the Sequoia National Forest, while just a mile to the west, the flat, sun-baked expanse of Dry Valley offers a stark contrast to the rugged, uneven topography. The air here carries the scent of dry grass and pine resin, a sharp, elemental fragrance that shifts with the light, turning from a pale, watery gold at dawn to a deep, bruising violet as the shadows stretch across the uneven earth.

History remains etched into the quietude of Badger, where the legacy of early settlers persists in the remnants of homesteads that once served the timber and ranching trades. The local economy continues to draw its vitality from the land, favoring small-scale agriculture and the stewardship of timber tracts like the nearby Whitaker Forest, which stands as a silent sentinel of ancient growth. While Lake Kaweah lies fourteen miles away, gathering the runoff from the higher elevations, life here remains tethered to the seasonal rhythms of the inland hills rather than the water. Daily existence moves with a deliberate, singular pace, defined by the sound of wind through the brush and the isolation of a landscape that demands self-reliance, leaving the inhabitants to find their own measure of peace beneath an immense, unobstructed sky.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Giant Sequoia National Monument (National Monument) — 2.4 mi, 042° NE · 353k acres
Sequoia National Forest (National Forest) — 2.4 mi, 042° NE · 1.1M acres
Sheep Ridge Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 5.5 mi, 123° SE · 5,017 acres
Kaweah Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 5.5 mi, 123° SE
Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 5.6 mi, 054° NE · 768k acres
Sequoia National Park (National Park) — 5.6 mi, 111° E · 407k acres
Kings Canyon National Park (National Park) — 6.1 mi, 022° N · 459k acres
Mark Twain Stump (Attraction) — 6.5 mi, 024° NE
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 7.2 mi, 000° N
Sequoia Lake Overlook (Viewpoint) — 8.0 mi, 012° N
Centennial Stump (Attraction) — 8.4 mi, 016° N
General Grant Tree (Attraction) — 8.4 mi, 016° N
Gamlin Cabin (Attraction) — 8.4 mi, 016° N
Milk Ranch/Case Mountain Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 9.2 mi, 134° SE · 9,361 acres
Jennie Lakes Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 10.4 mi, 068° E · 11k acres
Homer Ranch Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 11.2 mi, 183° S
Ponderosa Victory Circle (Theatre) — 12.0 mi, 027° NE
Old Ranger Station (Historic Ruins) — 12.4 mi, 116° SE
Dry Creek Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 14.0 mi, 183° S
Stephen Mather memorial plaque (Monument) — 15.0 mi, 111° E
Bookie Bear (Public Artwork) — 15.1 mi, 300° NW
Hospital Rock (Historic Ruins) — 15.4 mi, 119° SE
Sierra National Forest (National Forest) — 15.6 mi, 002° N · 1.3M acres
Kings, California Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 15.7 mi, 010° N · 7,743 acres
Reedley’s River City Theatre Company (Theatre) — 24.5 mi, 265° W
Galaxy Theatres (Cinema) — 33.1 mi, 213° SW
Wild Water Adventures (Theme Park) — 33.7 mi, 291° W
Academy (Monument) — 34.0 mi, 302° NW
Art Gonzales Museum (Museum) — 34.4 mi, 264° W
Pioneer Village Museum (Museum) — 34.5 mi, 264° W

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