Clyde California Map

About Clyde, California

Clyde is a locality in Imperial County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 729. The population density is 1996.2 people per km². Clyde is located at 38.0254°N, 122.0280°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 92227, 94520.

Clyde occupies a stark, sun-bleached stretch of high desert where the earth holds the heat long after the light fails. It lies 33.0 miles east of Brawley, CA (from Brawley, CA: bearing 97°T), and is situated 23.8 miles northwest of Yuma. The landscape around Clyde is defined by the rigid, jagged silhouette of Pilot Knob Mesa looming two miles to the west, casting long, sharp shadows over the scrubland as the afternoon wanes. Dust devils occasionally spiral across the flats, stirred by the dry, restless wind that scours the plains and carries the scent of baked stone and parched earth. Three miles away, the erratic path of Indian Wash carves a shallow, arid trench through the soil, a reminder of water that arrives only in brief, violent pulses during the infrequent winter rains.

Clyde remains a place of quiet endurance, defined by the lingering echoes of those who sought to master this unyielding terrain. The local economy persists in the spare, deliberate rhythm of a landscape that offers little to the casual traveler, yet provides a hard-won living for those who understand the temper of the soil. Beyond the quiet residential streets, the vast expanse of the Singer Geoglyphs Area of Critical Environmental Concern lies five miles away, preserving ancient patterns etched into the desert floor that defy the encroaching silence of the modern world. Life in Clyde moves with the slow, steady gravity of a place that has learned to wait for the seasons to turn, its character forged in the brilliant, relentless clarity of the inland sun.

About This Clyde Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Clyde, California. Coordinates: 38.02539, -122.028016. 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 Clyde includes the ZIP code (92227, 94520), telephone area code (714, 510), county seat of Imperial County (El Centro), and school district assignment (Mount Diablo 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.