Cottonwood California Map

About Cottonwood, California

Cottonwood is a locality in Shasta County, California, United States. It has a population of approximately 6,268. The population density is 183.0 people per km². Cottonwood is located at 40.3903°N, 122.3156°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 93307, 95694, 96022.

Cottonwood occupies a sun-bleached expanse of the northern Sacramento Valley, where the dry heat of midsummer turns the tall grasses into brittle, amber stalks. It lies 4.4 miles south-southeast of Anderson, CA (from Anderson, CA: bearing 168°T), and is situated 7.8 miles east-southeast of Olinda. The horizon is anchored by the distant, serrated silhouettes of the Cascade Range, which remain hazy and violet against the relentless brilliance of the afternoon sky. Only a mile away, Cottonwood Creek carves a low, shaded corridor through the landscape, offering a brief respite of cool, riparian green before the terrain rises into the rugged, uneven topography of Schmeider Gulch. Within the immediate reach of the settlement, Cottonwood Community Park provides a modest patch of manicured lawn and shade, a necessary contrast to the vast, open plains that stretch toward the shimmering, distant surface of Table Mountain Lake.

History here is written in the quiet remnants of transit and trade, as the settlement grew from the necessity of a stopping point on the routes that pushed further into the rugged interior. The local economy maintains a steady, unadorned pulse, driven by the rhythms of agricultural labor and the movement of goods along the primary arteries that bypass the quiet residential grid. Dust motes dance in the heavy, static air of late afternoon, settling on the weathered siding of older structures that have watched the seasons cycle through decades of drought and bloom. Life in Cottonwood moves with a deliberate, sparse gravity, defined by the stark clarity of the light and the persistent, dry whisper of the wind moving over the scorched earth.

About This Cottonwood Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cottonwood, California. Coordinates: 40.390291, -122.315631. 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 Cottonwood includes the ZIP code (93307, 95694, 96022), telephone area code (530), county seat of Shasta County (Redding), and school district assignment (Anderson Union High 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.