Explore East Oakdale, 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 East Oakdale, 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 East Oakdale.
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 | East Oakdale |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Stanislaus County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 37.787983 |
| Longitude | -120.80382 |
| Population | 3,201 |
| Density | 229.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 95361 |
| Area Code | 408, 669 |
| County Seat | Modesto |
| School District | Oakdale Joint Unified School District |
East Oakdale stretches across a flat expanse of the Central Valley where the light at dusk turns the dry grasses into a bruised, metallic gold. It lies 2.8 miles east-northeast of Oakdale, CA (from Oakdale, CA: bearing 58°T), and is situated 8.0 miles east-northeast of Riverbank. The Stanislaus River carves a deliberate path through the earth nearby, its current moving with a quiet gravity that anchors the local landscape against the distant, hazy silhouette of the Coast Ranges. Within the borders of East Oakdale, the Valley Oak Recreation Area offers a respite of shade, where the gnarled, ancient limbs of trees hold the heat of the afternoon long after the sun begins its slow descent. To the north, the waters of Rodden Lake provide a stillness that contrasts with the rhythmic, seasonal pulse of the surrounding plains, while the distant, shadowed depression of Shirley Gulch remains a silent witness to the geological shifts that defined this inland terrain.
Agricultural cycles have long dictated the pace of existence here, mapping the passage of time through the heavy scent of processing plants and the seasonal migration of labor across the fields. East Oakdale emerged as a node in the regional economy where the soil proved generous enough to sustain orchards and grazing, cementing a culture that values the steady utility of land over the frantic pace of urban expansion. The architecture remains functional and unpretentious, reflecting a history of settlement built upon the necessity of irrigation and the mastery of the water table. Life in East Oakdale moves with the persistence of the river, defined by the quiet labor of those who cultivate the valley floor and the enduring, dry warmth that defines the long, cloudless summer months.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of East Oakdale, California. Coordinates: 37.787983, -120.80382. 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 East Oakdale includes the ZIP code (95361), telephone area code (408, 669), county seat of Stanislaus County (Modesto), and school district assignment (Oakdale 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. |