Burrel California Map

About Burrel, California

Burrel is a locality in Fresno County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Burrel is located at 36.4883°N, 119.9851°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 93656, 93607.

Burrel occupies a flat, expansive stretch of the Central Valley where the horizon seems to pull the sky down toward the earth. It lies 16.8 miles south-southeast of Kerman, CA (from Kerman, CA: bearing 166°T), and is situated 8.0 miles west-northwest of Riverdale. The landscape is defined by the stark, geometric precision of immense agricultural fields that hold the heat of the sun long after the day has faded. Only a mile away, the quiet, silt-heavy waters of Fresno Slough wind through the basin, marking the low points of a terrain that remains largely indifferent to the passage of time. On the clearest mornings, when the air is stripped of its haze, the jagged, snow-dusted peaks of the Sierra Nevada emerge as a faint, ghostly silhouette against the eastern sky, reminding those in Burrel that the world beyond the plains is vast and steep.

Economic life in Burrel is tethered to the rhythm of the harvest, a cycle of planting and picking that dictates the pace of every season. The region’s history is written in the furrows of the soil, where generations have labored to cultivate the heavy, fertile ground that sustains the local industry. While the nearby Raisin City Park and the distant Prather Pond offer small pockets of reprieve from the sun-baked silence of the fields, the true character of the place is found in the steady, industrious quiet of its people. Life here moves with a deliberate, measured cadence, mirroring the slow, persistent growth of the crops that define the perimeter of every view.

About This Burrel Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Burrel, California. Coordinates: 36.488282, -119.985146. 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 Burrel includes the ZIP code (93656, 93607), telephone area code (760), county seat of Fresno County (Fresno), and school district assignment.

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.