Cleone California Map

About Cleone, California

Cleone is a locality in Mendocino County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 622. The population density is 150.8 people per km². Cleone is located at 39.4899°N, 123.7856°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 95437.

Cleone emerges from the salt-sprayed landscape as a quiet junction where the restless currents of the Pacific Ocean temper the air, leaving a permanent, cool mist to cling to the dunes. It lies 38.8 miles northwest of Ukiah, CA (from Ukiah, CA: bearing 307°T), and is situated 3.2 miles north-northeast of Fort Bragg. Mill Creek carves a deliberate path toward the shore, its waters providing a steady, rhythmic pulse that defines the low-lying terrain. The horizon remains vast and unobstructed, save for the distant, hazy silhouette of the Coast Ranges that stand as silent sentinels far to the east. Within the boundaries of MacKerricher State Park, the Laguna Trail invites a slow pace, winding past the glassy, reflective surface of Lake Cleone and onward toward the jagged, spray-drenched silhouettes of Seal Rocks.

Economic life in Cleone long ago shifted from the intensive extraction of timber to the quiet stewardship of the environment, preserving a character defined by the cyclical nature of the tides and the seasonal shifts of migratory birds. The land, once shaped by the industrious hum of sawmills and the movement of heavy freight, now favors the patient observer who walks the paths near the Little Valley basin. History here is written in the weathering of driftwood and the soft, persistent erosion of the coastline, rather than in monuments of stone or steel. In Cleone, the day is measured not by the clock, but by the gradual transition of light as it filters through the coastal haze, turning the grasses from a muted, sun-bleached tan to the deep, resonant gold of a fading afternoon.

About This Cleone Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cleone, California. Coordinates: 39.489888, -123.785571. 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 Cleone includes the ZIP code (95437), telephone area code (408, 669), county seat of Mendocino County (Ukiah), and school district assignment (Fort Bragg Unified School District).

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.