Explore Coyote, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Coyote, 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 Coyote.
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 | Coyote |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Santa Clara County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 37.216611 |
| Longitude | -121.740504 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 8.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 95013 |
| Area Code | 408, 669 |
| County Seat | San Jose |
Coyote occupies a sun-drenched corridor where the earth stretches wide between the steep, shadowed edges of Metcalfe Canyon and the meandering, seasonal pulse of Coyote Creek. It lies 7.6 miles northwest of Morgan Hill, CA (from Morgan Hill, CA: bearing 321°T), and is situated 6.8 miles east-southeast of Vista Park. The land here holds a quiet, baked stillness, defined by expanses of oak savanna that turn the color of pale straw under the relentless heat of the long summer. To the west, the distant silhouettes of the Coast Ranges catch the fading light, their ridges softened by a haze that lingers long after the sun has dipped below the horizon. Three miles away, the waters of Calero Reservoir offer a singular, cool clarity to the landscape, reflecting the sky in a mirror of deep, still blue that contrasts sharply with the tinder-dry grasses of the surrounding plains.
Coyote serves as a vital transition point, its character shaped by the Northern Coyote Valley Conservation Area that protects the wild, open corridors of the valley floor from the encroaching pressure of regional expansion. Historically, the ground beneath Coyote has supported a quiet rhythm of agricultural labor and quiet transit, evolving from ranching roots into a space that now balances light industry with the preservation of its natural wildlife pathways. The pace of life here moves in alignment with the shifting seasons, marked by the rhythmic passage of vehicles along the major thoroughfares that bisect the fields. Though the distant roar of progress is never entirely absent, the immediate environment remains grounded in the physical reality of the soil and the persistent, quiet endurance of the creek beds that define the geography of Coyote.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Coyote, California. Coordinates: 37.216611, -121.740504. 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 Coyote includes the ZIP code (95013), telephone area code (408, 669), county seat of Santa Clara County (San Jose), and school district assignment.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |