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Charleston View California Map

Explore Charleston View, 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 Charleston View, California

How to Use This Charleston View, California Map

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

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	Charleston View
State	California (CA)
County	Inyo County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	35.96463
Longitude	-115.897244
Population	45
Density	23.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	89061
Area Code	909
County Seat	Independence
School District	Death Valley Unified School District

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About Charleston View, California

Charleston View is a locality in Inyo County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 45. The population density is 23.1 people per km². Charleston View is located at 35.9646°N, 115.8972°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 89061.

Charleston View occupies a stark, sun-bleached expanse where the desert floor stretches toward the horizon in a shimmering haze of heat and silence. It lies 17.5 miles south-southeast of Pahrump, NV (from Pahrump, NV: bearing 164°T), and is situated 33.9 miles west-southwest of Summerlin South. The earth here is composed of fine, pale dust and hard-packed scrub, punctuated by the jagged shadows of dry basins and the subtle, irregular contours of a landscape that has long been shaped by the slow, relentless work of wind and intense solar radiation. A short distance away, the Pahrump Valley Wilderness Area offers a protected silence, while the deeper fissures of Cathedral Canyon carve a jagged geometry into the dry bedrock. The air carries a thin, dry clarity that makes the distant Sierra Nevada appear as nothing more than a faint, jagged etching of blue against the far northern sky, a ghost of high-altitude snow visible only when the atmosphere is at its most transparent.

Charleston View exists as a quiet sentinel of the high desert, far removed from the dense commerce of the coast and defined instead by the vast, unpopulated openness of the Mojave. Historically, the land has resisted intensive cultivation, leaving the local economy to rely on the sporadic rhythms of prospectors and the modest logistics of those who favor the solitude of the basin over the congestion of major centers. Life in Charleston View moves with the shifting intensity of the sun, marked by the occasional passage of traffic toward more distant reaches and the infrequent, seasonal pulse of water moving through the distant Lovell Wash. There is a profound, meditative weight to the afternoons here, when the light turns a deep, bruised orange and the stillness of the desert seems to expand, absorbing the small footprints of human activity into the ancient, unchanging grit of the valley floor.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Pahrump Valley Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 2.1 mi, 207° SW · 78k acres
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 2.6 mi, 185° S
Stump Spring Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 3.7 mi, 076° E
Queho’s grave marker (Monument) — 4.0 mi, 036° NE
Cathedral Canyon (Historic Ruins) — 4.1 mi, 038° NE
Nopah Range Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 5.4 mi, 277° W · 112k acres
Amargosa South Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 7.9 mi, 191° S
Coast to Coast Radio Station (Attraction) — 9.2 mi, 337° NW
Art Bell's Coast to Coast Radio Station W6OBB (Attraction) — 9.2 mi, 337° NW
Art Bell Amateur Radio Station W6OBB (Attraction) — 9.2 mi, 338° N
Open Space (State Recreation Area) — 9.3 mi, 347° N
Toiyabe National Forest (National Forest) — 13.0 mi, 055° NE · 3.9M acres
Spring Mountains National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 13.0 mi, 055° NE · 322k acres
Noonday Camp - Camp Millsite (Historic Ruins) — 15.7 mi, 227° SW
Art Bell Memorial Bench (Attraction) — 16.3 mi, 345° N
Willow Creek Canyon Overlook (Viewpoint) — 17.6 mi, 232° SW
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area (National Conservation Area) — 21.1 mi, 069° E · 202k acres
Death Valley National Park (National Park) — 21.3 mi, 276° W · 3.4M acres
Mount Stirling Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 22.7 mi, 001° N · 128k acres
Migger Mesa (Monument) — 25.7 mi, 328° NW
Silent Heroes of the Cold War National Memorial (Monument) — 27.3 mi, 039° NE
Mojave National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 30.5 mi, 160° S · 1.5M acres
Sahara West Library Art Gallery (Arts Centre) — 35.3 mi, 069° E
Seven Magic Mountains (Public Artwork) — 36.1 mi, 104° E
Carolee Theatre (Cinema) — 37.6 mi, 130° SE
Century Orleans 18 and XD (Cinema) — 40.0 mi, 076° E
Criss Angel Studios (Gallery) — 40.5 mi, 079° E
Wiseguys Live Comedy (Theatre) — 40.8 mi, 080° E
Michael Jackson One Theater (Theatre) — 41.2 mi, 077° E
Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art (Gallery) — 41.5 mi, 075° E

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