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Essex California Map

Explore Essex, 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 Essex, California

How to Use This Essex, California Map

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

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	Essex
State	California (CA)
County	San Bernardino County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	40.905961
Longitude	-124.03534
Population	280
Density	2.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	95519, 92332
Area Code	530, 909
County Seat	San Bernardino

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About Essex, California

Essex is a locality in San Bernardino County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 2.0 people per km². Essex is located at 40.9060°N, 124.0353°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 95519, 92332.

Essex occupies a vast, sun-bleached expanse where the low-slung desert floor meets the jagged, skeletal silhouettes of the Piute Mountains rising nine miles to the north. It lies 61.9 miles northeast of Twentynine Palms, CA (from Twentynine Palms, CA: bearing 48°T), and is situated 55.2 miles west-northwest of Lake Havasu City. The Watson Wash carves a shallow, gravelly artery through the arid terrain, its path marked by the sporadic, thirsty green of creosote and saltbush that cling to the parched earth. Inside the protected boundaries of the Mojave Trails National Monument, the light at dusk turns the ground into a bruised, shifting violet, casting long, thin shadows that seem to stretch toward the distant basin of Willow Spring Canyon. This is a landscape of profound stillness, where the heat radiates from the sand in shimmering, translucent waves, and the silence is broken only by the dry rasp of wind moving through the sparse brush.

Railroad ties and the lingering ghosts of mid-century transit define the history of Essex, serving as a reminder of the restless movement that once surged across these lonely plains. While the local economy has slowed to a quiet, meditative pace, the traces of those who passed through remain in the weathered remnants of roadside structures that stand as monuments to a bygone era of desert travel. Far from the damp influence of the coast, the air here remains brittle and sharp, carrying the faint, metallic scent of heated stone and ancient dust. Life in Essex hums with the slow, deliberate rhythm of the desert, a place where the scale of the horizon demands a certain humility from anyone who lingers long enough to watch the stars ignite over the quiet, dark monument land.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Buddha Statue (Public Artwork) — 0.4 mi, 164° S
Arcata Community Forest (Local Resource Management Area) — 1.9 mi, 193° S
Carlson Park (Local Park) — 2.2 mi, 272° W
Azalea State Natural Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 2.3 mi, 290° W
Riverfront Park (Local Park) — 2.3 mi, 281° W
Sunny Brae Forest (Local Resource Management Area) — 2.8 mi, 197° S
Charles Fulkerson Recital Hall (Theatre) — 3.0 mi, 228° SW
John Van Duzer Theatre (Theatre) — 3.1 mi, 228° SW
Shay Park Plaque (Monument) — 3.4 mi, 237° SW
The Arcata Sanctuary (Arts Centre) — 3.6 mi, 230° SW
Jacoby Creek-Gannon Slough Wildlife Area (Local Conservation Area) — 3.8 mi, 214° SW
Mad River Slough Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.3 mi, 233° SW
World's Tallest Totem Pole (Attraction) — 4.4 mi, 306° NW
Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 4.6 mi, 213° SW · 11k acres
South Stairs Overlook (Viewpoint) — 5.4 mi, 298° NW
Samoa State Marine Conservation Area (Marine Protected Area) — 5.5 mi, 278° W
Humboldt Bay Memorial (Monument) — 6.4 mi, 320° NW
Six Rivers National Forest (National Forest) — 6.6 mi, 334° NW · 978k acres
Humboldt Coastal Nature Center (Museum) — 7.5 mi, 243° SW
Blue Ox Millworks (Attraction) — 8.9 mi, 221° SW
Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum (Museum) — 9.4 mi, 223° SW
California Coastal National Monument (National Monument) — 9.6 mi, 334° NW · 8,946 acres
Fishermans Memorial Statue (Monument) — 9.6 mi, 225° SW
Humboldt Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 9.9 mi, 225° SW
Discovery Museum (Museum) — 9.9 mi, 223° SW
Redwood National Park (National Park) — 12.7 mi, 018° N · 194k acres
Dolason Barn (Historic Ruins) — 21.1 mi, 010° N
Hoopa Valley Museum (Museum) — 21.2 mi, 059° NE
Ironsides Museum (Museum) — 27.0 mi, 095° E
Elk Viewing (Attraction) — 31.5 mi, 001° N

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