Explore Bonita, 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 Bonita, 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 Bonita.
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 | Bonita |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Madera County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 32.673217 |
| Longitude | -117.006101 |
| Population | 12,917 |
| Density | 994.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 91902, 93637, 91910 |
| Area Code | 760, 949 |
| County Seat | Madera |
| School District | Chula Vista Elementary School District |
Bonita occupies a broad, sun-drenched expanse of the interior plains, where the horizon remains wide and unobstructed by the jagged silhouettes of the distant Sierra Nevada. It lies 7.8 miles west of Madera, CA (from Madera, CA: bearing 266°T), and is situated 8.8 miles west-southwest of Madera Acres. The earth here is characterized by low, parched slopes that catch the amber light of late afternoon, turning the dry grasses into a shimmering, metallic gold. Two miles to the west, the Fresno River carves a quiet, seasonal path through the silt and scrub, providing a narrow ribbon of riparian life that stands in stark contrast to the surrounding arid heat. The air in Bonita carries the scent of dust and sun-baked earth, a stillness that deepens as the shadows stretch long and thin across the plains, grounding the landscape in a profound and heavy quiet.
Agricultural roots run deep in the soil of Bonita, where legacy orchards and small-scale livestock operations once defined the rhythm of the seasons. While modern development has shifted the local economy toward suburban residential growth, the memory of those agrarian days persists in the sprawling properties and wide, unhurried lanes. Residents frequently seek the quiet recreation found at Lions Town and Country Regional Park, a space that offers a reprieve from the heat of the central plains. Far to the north, the waters of Madera Lake remain a distant, glimmering point in the landscape, a reminder of the scarcity of water that dictates the pace of life here. Bonita maintains a character defined by this deliberate, inland atmosphere, where the daily cycle is measured not by the passage of tides, but by the relentless, beautiful progression of the sun across an endless sky.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bonita, California. Coordinates: 32.673217, -117.006101. 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 Bonita includes the ZIP code (91902, 93637, 91910), telephone area code (760, 949), county seat of Madera County (Madera), and school district assignment (Chula Vista Elementary 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. |