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Buena Vista California Map

Explore Buena Vista, 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 Buena Vista, California

How to Use This Buena Vista, California Map

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

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	Buena Vista
State	California (CA)
County	Sonoma County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	38.297487
Longitude	-120.917402
Population	542
Density	124.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	95384, 95640
Area Code	530
County Seat	Santa Rosa
School District	Amador County Unified School District

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About Buena Vista, California

Buena Vista is a locality in Sonoma County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 542. The population density is 124.0 people per km². Buena Vista is located at 38.2975°N, 120.9174°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 95384, 95640.

Buena Vista occupies a quiet expanse of land where the Arroyo Seco carves a deliberate, seasonal path through the earth, marking the local rhythm of drought and sudden, brief saturation. It lies 1.3 miles east of Sonoma, CA (from Sonoma, CA: bearing 97°T), and is situated 8.1 miles west of Napa. The landscape around Buena Vista unfolds as a series of tawny, sun-bleached plains that stretch toward the Pansey Valley, a low-lying basin that catches the long, amber shadows of the afternoon. While the distant Coast Ranges silhouette the horizon in hazy shades of violet and bruised charcoal, the immediate terrain remains defined by the scrubby resilience of oak savanna and the quiet, dry heat of an inland summer. A mile away, Sonoma Garden Park offers a respite of cultivated green, a stark contrast to the wild, tinder-dry grasses that dominate the periphery during the height of the year.

Agriculture provides the steady pulse of the local economy, a legacy that survives in the orderly rows of orchards and the lingering scent of turned soil that defines the seasons here. Residents often venture toward Goose Lake to find a measure of stillness, or traverse the State Hospital Orchard Trail, where the remnants of earlier land-use patterns remain etched into the geography of the paths. Buena Vista maintains a character forged by this interiority, far removed from the clamor of the coast, favoring a pace of life that aligns with the slow, deliberate turning of the agricultural calendar. Even when the light begins to fail and the air cools, the spirit of the place remains firmly grounded in its inland heritage, defined by the persistence of its creeks and the patient, enduring nature of its plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ione Tertiary Oxisol Soil Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 1.2 mi, 126° SE
Pardee Reservoir (Local Recreation) — 2.7 mi, 106° E
Howard Park (Local Park) — 3.0 mi, 348° N
Ione Manzanita Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 3.7 mi, 156° SE
Camanche Reservoir (Local Recreation) — 3.8 mi, 193° S
Train Park (Local Park) — 3.9 mi, 348° N
Iron Ivan (Monument) — 4.0 mi, 347° N
Amador County Museum (Museum) — 8.6 mi, 065° NE
Kennedy Gold Mine (Attraction) — 8.9 mi, 057° NE
Change House Museum and Gift Shop (Museum) — 8.9 mi, 057° NE
Flume Tressel Piers (Historic Ruins) — 8.9 mi, 059° NE
Tailing Wheel No. 1 (Historic Ruins) — 8.9 mi, 059° NE
Impound Dam Overlook (Viewpoint) — 9.0 mi, 060° NE
Sutter Creek Theatre (Theatre) — 9.1 mi, 043° NE
Sutter Gold Mine (Attraction) — 9.6 mi, 036° NE
3 Fish Studios (Gallery) — 9.8 mi, 031° NE
Historic Joseph H. Thomas House (Attraction) — 9.8 mi, 031° NE
New Hogan Lake (Resource Management Area) — 10.1 mi, 146° SE
The Old Schoolhouse, Drytown (Attraction) — 10.5 mi, 020° N
Claypipers Theatre (Theatre) — 10.5 mi, 019° N
Mokelumne River (Wild & Scenic River) — 10.6 mi, 083° E · 2,737 acres
Local (Gallery) — 13.2 mi, 016° N
Metropolitan Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 14.6 mi, 118° SE
Calaveras County Historical Museum (Museum) — 14.6 mi, 118° SE
Michigan Bar Historical Marker (Monument) — 14.8 mi, 331° NW
Chew Kee Store (Museum) — 16.7 mi, 031° NE
North Fork Mokelumne River (Wild & Scenic River) — 16.9 mi, 071° E · 2,970 acres
Eldorado National Forest (National Forest) — 24.9 mi, 052° NE · 703k acres
Stanislaus National Forest (National Forest) — 25.4 mi, 067° NE · 901k acres
Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.8 mi, 276° W · 7,119 acres

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