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Drytown California Map

Explore Drytown, 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 Drytown, California

How to Use This Drytown, California Map

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

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

Latitude	38.441021
Longitude	-120.854382
Population	186
Density	22.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	95699
Area Code	530
County Seat	Jackson
School District	Amador County Unified School District

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About Drytown, California

Drytown is a locality in Amador County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 186. The population density is 22.1 people per km². Drytown is located at 38.4410°N, 120.8544°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 95699.

Drytown occupies a rugged basin defined by the steady, persistent presence of Dry Creek, which carves a shallow, stony path through the landscape. It lies 17.3 miles south-southeast of Cameron Park, CA (from Cameron Park, CA: bearing 155°T), and is situated 7.4 miles northeast of Ione. The earth here, a parched and ochre-colored expanse, rises into the jagged, irregular walls of Snake Gulch, where the heat of midday seems to distill the very oxygen into a shimmering, golden haze. To the east, the distant, snow-dusted peaks of the Sierra Nevada loom as a faint, serrated silhouette against the sky, while the local vegetation—tough, drought-tolerant brush and scattered oaks—clings to the slopes with a stubborn, quiet intensity. The atmosphere carries the scent of dry grass and sun-warmed stone, a testament to the inland climate that separates Drytown from the damp, distant air of the coast.

Gold seekers once scoured the banks of Dry Creek, leaving behind a legacy of abandoned shafts and a quiet, weathered architecture that speaks to the boom-and-bust rhythms of the nineteenth century. Today, the economy of Drytown has shifted from the frantic extraction of ore to a slower, more deliberate life, marked by the proximity of Norman Waters Park and the cool, still surface of Icehouse Pond. Residents move with a measured pace, their daily routines punctuated by the seasonal shift of the light across the hills and the occasional excursion toward the timbered reaches of Mount Zion State Forest. Despite the fading echoes of its mining origins, Drytown retains a distinctive character, where the silence of the gulch provides a stark, honest backdrop to the modest, enduring lives of those who remain.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Claypipers Theatre (Theatre) — 0.0 mi, 270° W
The Old Schoolhouse, Drytown (Attraction) — 0.2 mi, 123° SE
Historic Joseph H. Thomas House (Attraction) — 2.1 mi, 133° SE
3 Fish Studios (Gallery) — 2.2 mi, 133° SE
Norman Waters Park (Local Park) — 2.3 mi, 026° NE
Culbert Park (Local Park) — 2.3 mi, 134° SE
Keystone Mine (Historic Ruins) — 2.3 mi, 134° SE
Local (Gallery) — 2.8 mi, 006° N
Sutter Gold Mine (Attraction) — 3.1 mi, 133° SE
Sutter Creek Theatre (Theatre) — 4.3 mi, 140° SE
Change House Museum and Gift Shop (Museum) — 6.4 mi, 141° SE
Kennedy Gold Mine (Attraction) — 6.5 mi, 142° SE
El Dorado Ranch (Conservation Area) — 6.6 mi, 356° N
Chew Kee Store (Museum) — 6.7 mi, 049° NE
Massa Tunnel (Historic Ruins) — 6.7 mi, 141° SE
Impound Dam Overlook (Viewpoint) — 7.0 mi, 141° SE
Ione Manzanita Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 7.3 mi, 262° W
Iron Ivan (Monument) — 7.4 mi, 215° SW
Amador County Museum (Museum) — 7.6 mi, 145° SE
Sobon Estate Museum (Museum) — 8.3 mi, 040° NE
Shenandoah Valley Museum (Museum) — 8.3 mi, 031° NE
Ervin Ranch (State Resource Management Area) — 8.9 mi, 309° NW
Michigan Bar Historical Marker (Monument) — 11.0 mi, 286° W
Mokelumne River (Wild & Scenic River) — 11.2 mi, 140° SE · 2,737 acres
North Fork Cosumnes River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 12.0 mi, 010° N
North Fork Mokelumne River (Wild & Scenic River) — 13.2 mi, 105° E · 2,970 acres
Camanche Reservoir (Local Recreation) — 13.5 mi, 181° S
Eldorado National Forest (National Forest) — 17.7 mi, 053° NE · 703k acres
Stanislaus National Forest (National Forest) — 20.0 mi, 090° E · 901k acres
Mokelumne Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 35.2 mi, 083° E · 104k acres

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