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Garberville California Map

Explore Garberville, 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 Garberville, California

How to Use This Garberville, California Map

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

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

Latitude	40.1003
Longitude	-123.7948
Population	818
Density	117.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	95542
Area Code	530
County Seat	Eureka
School District	Southern Humboldt Joint Unified School District

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About Garberville, California

Garberville is a locality in Humboldt County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 818. The population density is 117.8 people per km². Garberville is located at 40.1003°N, 123.7948°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 95542.

Garberville occupies a rugged basin where the South Fork Eel River carves a deliberate, serpentine path through the deep shadows of Bear Canyon. It lies 39.3 miles south-southeast of Fortuna, CA (from Fortuna, CA: bearing 151°T), and is situated 32.1 miles south-southeast of Rio Dell. The land here is defined by the sharp, abrupt geometry of the terrain, where dry, sun-bleached grasses cling to slopes that rise toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Coast Ranges. In the heat of mid-summer, the air carries a resinous scent, heavy and still, as if the landscape itself is holding its breath under the weight of the afternoon sun. Only a mile away, Tooby Memorial Park offers a quiet reprieve of shade, its grounds providing a low-altitude sanctuary that feels entirely removed from the frantic pace of the modern world.

Garberville emerged from the quiet intersections of early frontier trade, evolving from a modest outpost into a waypoint that maintains a singular, independent character. While the economy has shifted through eras of timber and agriculture, the pulse of the place remains tethered to the cycles of the earth, a rhythm dictated by the seasonal light and the shifting levels of the South Fork Eel River. Residents navigate a life punctuated by the nearby Woodland Trail, a five-mile stretch that winds through the surrounding timber, while the more remote reaches of the Childrens Forest stand as a silent, verdant perimeter thirteen miles to the east. Even the distant waters of Lewis Opening, sitting nine miles away, seem to anchor the geography, grounding the daily experience of Garberville in a landscape that values solitude and the enduring, unadorned reality of the high-country interior.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Tooby Memorial Park (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 185° S
John B. Dewitt Redwoods State Natural Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 1.7 mi, 285° W
Benbow State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 2.2 mi, 179° S
Julia Morgan’s Redwood Grove Estate & Garden Tours (Attraction) — 2.2 mi, 180° S
Richardson Grove State Park (State Park) — 4.5 mi, 177° S
Humboldt Redwoods State Park (State Park) — 5.1 mi, 010° N
Panorama Point (Viewpoint) — 5.4 mi, 175° S
One-Log House (Attraction) — 6.3 mi, 178° S
East Branch South Fork Eel (Wild & Scenic River) — 9.3 mi, 150° SE · 2,163 acres
Sinkyone Wilderness State Park (State Wilderness) — 9.6 mi, 221° SW
King Range National Conservation Area (National Conservation Area) — 10.7 mi, 258° W · 62k acres
King Range Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 11.9 mi, 235° SW · 43k acres
Myers Plaque (Monument) — 12.3 mi, 338° N
Shrine Drive Thru Tree (Attraction) — 12.4 mi, 340° N
Childrens Forest Plaque (Monument) — 12.5 mi, 338° N
World's Tallest Free Standing Redwood Chainsaw Carving (Public Artwork) — 12.6 mi, 173° S
Confusion Hill Redwood Shoehouse (Attraction) — 12.6 mi, 173° S
The Twin Towers (Monument) — 12.6 mi, 173° S
South Fork Eel River Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 13.4 mi, 159° S · 13k acres
California Coastal National Monument (National Monument) — 13.8 mi, 225° SW · 8,946 acres
Six Rivers National Forest (National Forest) — 16.4 mi, 043° NE · 978k acres
Indian Dick Forest Service Station (Historic Ruins) — 38.9 mi, 100° E
Cotton Auditorium (Theatre) — 45.0 mi, 180° S
Noyo Center for Marine Science (Museum) — 45.3 mi, 181° S
Otis R. Johnson Wilderness Park (Nature Reserve) — 45.3 mi, 180° S
Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge (Nature Reserve) — 45.9 mi, 332° NW
Eagle Rock Lookout (Historic Ruins) — 51.2 mi, 029° NE
Discovery Museum (Museum) — 52.2 mi, 338° N
North Coast Dance (Arts Centre) — 52.3 mi, 338° N
North Coast Repertory Theater (Theatre) — 52.3 mi, 338° N

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