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Bangor California Map

Explore Bangor, 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 Bangor, California

How to Use This Bangor, California Map

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

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

Latitude	39.376087
Longitude	-121.411654
Population	695
Density	20.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	95914, 95966
Area Code	530
County Seat	Oroville
School District	Oroville Union High School District

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About Bangor, California

Bangor is a locality in Butte County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 695. The population density is 20.0 people per km². Bangor is located at 39.3761°N, 121.4117°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 95914, 95966.

Bangor emerges from the golden, sun-bleached expanse of the foothills, defined by the seasonal pulse of Wilson Creek as it carves a path through the parched earth. It lies 11.8 miles southeast of Oroville, CA (from Oroville, CA: bearing 137°T), and is situated 9.4 miles south-southeast of Oroville East. The landscape surrounding Bangor is a study in quiet endurance, where oak savanna stretches toward the horizon and the air carries the dry, sweet scent of grass curing under a relentless afternoon sun. To the east, the terrain deepens into the rugged shadows of Nelson Ravine, while the stillness of the landscape is occasionally punctuated by the movement of wildlife venturing from the nearby Daugherty Hill Wildlife Area. Five miles away, the waters of Virginia Ranch Reservoir hold the sky in a mirror of stillness, providing a rare depth of blue against the tawny, tinder-dry slopes that define the character of the region.

Bangor retains the quiet gravity of a settlement shaped by the labor of the earth and the slow accumulation of time. While the distant Coast Ranges remain faint, jagged silhouettes against the western sky, the local economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the land, echoing a history built upon the extraction of resources and the cultivation of the soil. Life in Bangor proceeds with a deliberate, unadorned pace, where the shift of light across the valley floor marks the passing hours more reliably than any clock. The legacy of those who first broke this ground remains visible in the scattered remnants of homesteads and the enduring resilience of the agricultural life that persists here, far from the frantic currents of the coast.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Daugherty Hill Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.9 mi, 165° S
Collins Lake Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 4.8 mi, 117° SE
Lake Oroville State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 9.6 mi, 348° N
Plumas National Forest (National Forest) — 9.9 mi, 018° N · 1.2M acres
Oroville Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.4 mi, 307° NW
Dam Observation Point (Viewpoint) — 12.2 mi, 141° SE
Bath House Museum (Museum) — 12.2 mi, 323° NW
South Yuba River State Park (State Park) — 12.2 mi, 116° SE
Clay Pit State Vehicular Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 12.9 mi, 304° NW
World's First Long-Distance Telephone Line (Monument) — 14.1 mi, 110° E
Tahoe National Forest (National Forest) — 14.6 mi, 064° NE · 895k acres
Beatson Corral (Historic Ruins) — 17.0 mi, 330° NW
Northrop T-38 A Talon (Monument) — 17.3 mi, 185° S
Airplane (Monument) — 17.3 mi, 182° S
Beatson Falls (Attraction) — 17.4 mi, 329° NW
Feather Falls Scenic Area (National Scenic Byway) — 18.0 mi, 020° N
Phantom Falls (Attraction) — 18.0 mi, 334° NW
Veterans Memorial Auditorium (Theatre) — 18.7 mi, 211° SW
Mary Aaron Memorial Museum (Museum) — 18.7 mi, 211° SW
Feather, California Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 19.4 mi, 019° N · 24k acres
Cotton Rosser Arena Pavilion (Theatre) — 19.4 mi, 212° SW
Purdon Crossing (Attraction) — 19.8 mi, 100° E
Sutter County Museum (Museum) — 19.9 mi, 217° SW
China Dam (Attraction) — 20.5 mi, 099° E
Providence Mine (Historic Ruins) — 21.6 mi, 112° E
North Star Museum (Museum) — 21.7 mi, 122° SE
Firehouse Number 1 Museum (Museum) — 22.5 mi, 110° E
Sutter National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 26.5 mi, 225° SW · 5,234 acres
Lake of the Woods State Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 26.9 mi, 200° S
Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 31.0 mi, 277° W · 21k acres

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