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Darwin California Map

Explore Darwin, 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 Darwin, California

How to Use This Darwin, California Map

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

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

Latitude	36.267997
Longitude	-117.591735
Population	36
Density	10.3 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	93522
Area Code	760
County Seat	Independence
School District	Lone Pine Unified School District

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About Darwin, California

Darwin is a locality in Inyo County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 36. The population density is 10.3 people per km². Darwin is located at 36.2680°N, 117.5917°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 93522.

Darwin rises from the high, arid expanse as a stark silhouette against the relentless clarity of the desert sky. It lies 44.8 miles north of Ridgecrest, CA (from Ridgecrest, CA: bearing 6°T), and is situated 44.4 miles north-northeast of China Lake Acres. Lucky Jim Wash carves a shallow, gravelly path through the landscape, directing the occasional runoff past the weathered foundations of a place defined by its isolation. Beyond the immediate grit and scrub, the terrain stretches toward the distant, hazy outline of the Sierra Nevada, while the Mohave Ground Squirrel Area of Critical Environmental Concern preserves the fragile silence of the surrounding flats. The air here carries a crystalline quality, sharpening the edges of every rock and rusted relic as the sun tracks its slow, unyielding arc across the basin.

Darwin persists as a quiet testament to the boom-and-bust temperaments of mineral extraction, its history etched into the abandoned mine shafts and skeletal structures that once anchored a bustling silver and lead economy. While the industrial fervor has long since dissipated, the landscape retains a rugged vitality, punctuated by the hidden, verdant reprieve of Darwin Falls and the rugged geological folds of Crystal Canyon nearby. Life in Darwin moves at the pace of the wind and the shifting shadows, far removed from the reach of the South Haiwee Reservoir. It is a place where the stillness is not an absence of sound, but a heavy, ancient presence that demands a particular kind of patience from those who remain.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Mohave Ground Squirrel Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 0.1 mi, 122° SE
Not A Through Street (Public Artwork) — 0.2 mi, 229° SW
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 2.0 mi, 287° W
Darwin Falls Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 2.4 mi, 027° NE · 8,842 acres
Argus Range Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 3.7 mi, 111° E · 67k acres
Death Valley National Park (National Park) — 4.7 mi, 036° NE · 3.4M acres
F-14 Tomcat airplane (Attraction) — 5.2 mi, 160° S
Chinook helicopter (Attraction) — 5.3 mi, 161° S
Father Crowley Vista Point (Viewpoint) — 6.2 mi, 021° N
Mojave Desert Land Trust (Conservation Area) — 6.8 mi, 054° NE
Viking/Talc Queen Camp (Historic Ruins) — 8.9 mi, 311° NW
The Joshua Tree album location (Monument) — 9.6 mi, 297° NW
Olancha Greasewood Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 14.9 mi, 307° NW
Big Petroglyphs (Historic Ruins) — 16.2 mi, 195° S
Cerro Gordo Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 21.4 mi, 324° NW · 5,299 acres
Cerro Gordo Ghost Town (Attraction) — 21.8 mi, 329° NW
Dirty Socks (Attraction) — 23.5 mi, 282° W
Panamint City (Monument) — 23.7 mi, 133° SE
Inyo National Forest (National Forest) — 24.2 mi, 249° W · 2.0M acres
Owens Lake-Silver Lead Furnace Historical Marker (Monument) — 24.9 mi, 315° NW
Kern, California Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 28.7 mi, 253° W · 25k acres
Sequoia National Forest (National Forest) — 28.9 mi, 253° W · 1.1M acres
Sequoia National Park (National Park) — 39.0 mi, 294° NW · 407k acres
Naval Museum of Armament & Technology (Museum) — 42.5 mi, 184° S
China Lake Museum (Museum) — 42.5 mi, 184° S
Ridgecrest Cinema (Cinema) — 42.9 mi, 186° S
Maturango Museum (Museum) — 44.3 mi, 186° S
Kern Valley Museum (Museum) — 58.6 mi, 233° SW
The Rand Desert Museum (Museum) — 62.3 mi, 183° S
McCarthy Blue Oak Ranch Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 67.5 mi, 267° W

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