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Butte City California Map

Explore Butte City, 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 Butte City, California

How to Use This Butte City, California Map

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

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

Latitude	39.464607
Longitude	-121.989975
Population	280
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	95920
Area Code	530
County Seat	Willows

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About Butte City, California

Butte City is a locality in Glenn County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Butte City is located at 39.4646°N, 121.9900°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 95920.

Butte City commands a flat, expansive reach of the Sacramento Valley where the heavy, alluvial soil meets the sky in a wide, unencumbered horizon. It lies 20.0 miles south-southwest of Chico, CA (from Chico, CA: bearing 204°T), and is situated 17.3 miles west-northwest of Gridley. The Sacramento River serves as the primary artery here, its currents carving a slow, deliberate path through the landscape that defines the very edges of the earth. Beyond the immediate banks, the terrain stretches out into vast, sun-drenched agricultural plains, a place where the light at dusk turns the dry grasses into a bruised, metallic gold. The Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge provides a quiet buffer of riparian habitat, a sanctuary where the silence is broken only by the sudden, percussive flight of waterfowl rising above the reeds.

Butte City bears the quiet weight of an agrarian legacy, its identity inextricably tied to the rhythms of the seasonal harvest and the slow, steady work of the fields. The economy remains tethered to this fertile ground, defined by the irrigation ditches and the machinery that labors under the immense, pale heat of the inland sun. Far to the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of the Coast Ranges occasionally pierces the haze, a reminder of the distance between this quiet outpost and the world beyond the valley floor. Life in Butte City moves with the deliberate pace of a place that understands its own isolation, grounded in the simple, repetitive labor of a landscape that demands both patience and endurance from those who choose to remain.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 0.3 mi, 293° NW · 21k acres
Sacramento River Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.0 mi, 332° NW
Upper Butte Basin Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.1 mi, 021° N
Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 7.9 mi, 263° W · 22k acres
North Central Valley Wildlife Management Area (National Conservation Area) — 7.9 mi, 013° N · 2,771 acres
Steve Thompson North Central Valley Wildlife Management Area (National Conservation Area) — 7.9 mi, 013° N · 2,771 acres
Bidwell-Sacramento River State Park (State Park) — 16.5 mi, 009° N
Veterans Memorial Wall (Monument) — 17.3 mi, 184° S
Lake Oroville State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 19.3 mi, 081° E
Chico Art Center (Arts Centre) — 19.5 mi, 023° NE
Steel "Sculpture" (Public Artwork) — 19.7 mi, 023° NE
Irving Finch River Access (Viewpoint) — 19.7 mi, 359° N
Janet Turner Print Museum (Museum) — 19.9 mi, 023° NE
National Yo-Yo Museum (Museum) — 19.9 mi, 024° NE
Vertebrate Museum (Museum) — 19.9 mi, 023° NE
Phagna Norapamok Memorial (Monument) — 20.0 mi, 024° NE
Chico Community Labyrinth (Monument) — 20.1 mi, 023° NE
Museum of Northern California Art (Museum) — 20.3 mi, 022° N
Alta Schmidt House Museum (Museum) — 22.2 mi, 331° NW
Black Box Theatre (Theatre) — 22.2 mi, 055° NE
Beatson Falls (Attraction) — 23.5 mi, 068° E
Beatson Corral (Historic Ruins) — 23.9 mi, 069° E
Phantom Falls (Attraction) — 25.0 mi, 066° NE
Mendocino National Forest (National Forest) — 28.7 mi, 337° NW · 929k acres
Plumas National Forest (National Forest) — 30.7 mi, 065° NE · 1.2M acres
Veterans Memorial Auditorium (Theatre) — 30.7 mi, 136° SE
Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument (National Monument) — 33.2 mi, 234° SW · 598k acres
Snow Mountain Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 36.2 mi, 265° W · 60k acres
Lake of the Woods State Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 38.3 mi, 145° SE
Prime Cinemas (Cinema) — 50.1 mi, 346° N

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