Explore Dos Palos Y, 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 Dos Palos Y, 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 Dos Palos Y.
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 | Dos Palos Y |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Merced County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 37.048835 |
| Longitude | -120.635464 |
| Population | 310 |
| Density | 76.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 93620 |
| Area Code | 760 |
| County Seat | Merced |
| School District | Dos Palos-Oro Loma Joint Unified School District |
Dos Palos Y stretches across the flat, sun-drenched expanse of the Central Valley floor, where the horizon pulls wide and thin beneath a sky that seems to hold the weight of the entire day. It lies 11.8 miles east of Los Banos, CA (from Los Banos, CA: bearing 93°T), and is situated 4.4 miles north of Dos Palos. The landscape here is defined by an absolute, unyielding horizontal plane, broken only by the thin, silver ribbon of the Arroyo Canal that marks the pulse of the local geography. In the distance, the faint, hazy silhouettes of the Coast Ranges hover like ghosts against the western sky, reminding the observer that the world beyond this basin is one of steep climbs and jagged rock. During the height of summer, the earth turns to a brittle, golden hue, catching the light in a way that makes the very air shimmer with an intense, dry heat. Nearby, the quiet greenery of O’Bannion County Park offers a singular respite from the vast, open fields that define the visual rhythm of the region.
Dos Palos Y carries the quiet weight of an agricultural heritage, where the economy remains tethered to the deep, fertile soil and the steady labor of the harvest. Farmers and laborers continue the work of turning the earth, their tractors marking slow, deliberate lines across the fields near Henry Miller Field as the seasons turn. Life moves at the pace of the irrigation schedule, a steady, predictable cadence that has shaped the character of the people who reside here. While the bustle of the world exists elsewhere, the daily experience here is one of wide-open space and the steady, quiet hum of machinery working against the silence of the plains. Even in the stillness of a late afternoon, there is a profound sense of purpose in the land, a reminder that the productivity of this flat, dusty ground sustains much of the world beyond its borders.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Dos Palos Y, California. Coordinates: 37.048835, -120.635464. 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 Dos Palos Y includes the ZIP code (93620), telephone area code (760), county seat of Merced County (Merced), and school district assignment (Dos Palos-Oro Loma Joint Unified School District).
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. |