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Death Valley Junction California Map

Explore Death Valley Junction, 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 Death Valley Junction, California

How to Use This Death Valley Junction, California Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Death Valley Junction, 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 Death Valley Junction.

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

Latitude	36.302178
Longitude	-116.413653
Population	4
Density	0.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	92328
Area Code	909
County Seat	Independence

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About Death Valley Junction, California

Death Valley Junction is a locality in Inyo County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 4. The population density is 0.5 people per km². Death Valley Junction is located at 36.3022°N, 116.4137°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 92328.

Death Valley Junction emerges from the arid expanse as a singular collection of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, defined by the dry, winding bed of the Amargosa River that cuts through the surrounding basin. It lies 24.8 miles west-northwest of Pahrump, NV (from Pahrump, NV: bearing 285°T), and is situated 71.7 miles west of Las Vegas. The landscape here is defined by a stark, monochromatic palette, where the earth gives way to alkaline flats and jagged outcrops that shimmer under a relentless, unfiltered sun. To the west, the distant, snow-dusted peaks of the Sierra Nevada provide a faint, ethereal boundary to a horizon that otherwise stretches into an infinity of creosote and scrub. Within the protected boundaries of the Amargosa North Area of Critical Environmental Concern, the terrain remains raw and largely undisturbed, offering a quiet, austere beauty where the wind carries the scent of baked dust and ancient minerals across the flats.

History clings to the white-washed walls of Death Valley Junction, a place once centered on the industrial ambition of the Pacific Coast Borax Company, which left behind a legacy of grand, hollowed-out structures that now stand as relics of a vanished economic era. The local rhythm is dictated not by the bustle of commerce, but by the slow, deliberate turning of light across the desert floor, illuminating the stark geometry of the buildings against the vast, empty sky. While Horseshoe Reservoir waits eight miles away as a testament to the scarcity of water in this basin, the community persists as a solitary outpost of human presence in a landscape that resists easy settlement. Life here is measured by the clarity of the stars and the immense, humming silence that settles over the region when the heat finally retreats, leaving the structures to exist in a state of watchful, sun-bleached isolation.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Amargosa North Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — locality lies within
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 1.3 mi, 271° W
Funeral Mountains Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 2.6 mi, 299° NW · 28k acres
Ash Meadows Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 5.1 mi, 032° NE
Resting Spring Range Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 5.2 mi, 154° SE · 82k acres
Resting Springs Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 6.0 mi, 077° E · 4,400 acres
Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 6.7 mi, 036° NE · 49k acres
Death Valley National Park (National Park) — 6.7 mi, 166° S · 3.4M acres
Devils Hole (Attraction) — 10.9 mi, 039° NE
Migger Mesa (Monument) — 15.3 mi, 096° E
Dante's View (Viewpoint) — 18.3 mi, 252° W
Death Valley Natural Bridge (Attraction) — 19.6 mi, 267° W
Badwater Basin (Attraction) — 20.4 mi, 256° W
View south is the cover of R.E.M. album "New Adventures in Hi-Fi". (Public Artwork) — 22.6 mi, 023° NE
Area 51 Alien Center (Attraction) — 23.6 mi, 002° N
Toiyabe National Forest (National Forest) — 23.8 mi, 069° E · 3.9M acres
Spring Mountains National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 23.8 mi, 069° E · 322k acres
Mount Stirling Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 24.1 mi, 066° NE · 128k acres
Harmony Borax Works (Historic Ruins) — 28.5 mi, 296° NW
Desert National Wildlife Range (National Wildlife Refuge) — 35.2 mi, 055° NE · 3.0M acres
Warm Spring Camp (Historic Ruins) — 37.0 mi, 232° SW
Queho’s grave marker (Monument) — 37.1 mi, 123° SE
Beatty Museum & Historical Society (Museum) — 46.0 mi, 335° NW
Silent Heroes of the Cold War National Memorial (Monument) — 46.0 mi, 092° E
Sahara West Library Art Gallery (Arts Centre) — 62.7 mi, 100° E
Century Orleans 18 and XD (Cinema) — 69.0 mi, 101° E
Brenden Theater (Cinema) — 69.1 mi, 100° E
Museum of Ice Cream (Museum) — 69.7 mi, 099° E
Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art (Gallery) — 70.1 mi, 100° E
Criss Angel Studios (Gallery) — 70.4 mi, 103° E

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