Explore Glennville, 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 Glennville, 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 Glennville.
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 | Glennville |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Kern County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 35.724194 |
| Longitude | -118.715217 |
| Population | 158 |
| Density | 32.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 93226, 93287 |
| Area Code | 661 |
| County Seat | Bakersfield |
| School District | Kern High School District |
Glennville occupies a quiet expanse of land where the golden light of the interior afternoon settles heavily upon the dry, sun-bleached grasses. It lies 27.6 miles north-northeast of East Niles, CA (from East Niles, CA: bearing 28°T), and is situated 15.0 miles west-northwest of Lake Isabella. Angel Creek carves a persistent path through the terrain, its course marking the subtle shifts in elevation that define the local topography. Beyond the immediate reach of the water, the landscape rises toward the expansive, forested borders of the Sequoia National Forest, which stands as a dense, dark sentinel against the sky. The horizon is shaped by the distant silhouette of the Sierra Nevada, a jagged reminder of the tectonic weight that rests beneath the soil of Linns Valley. As the day fades, the air cools rapidly, carrying the scent of parched earth and pine needles, while the vast, open sky turns a bruised shade of violet that seems to swallow the smaller, terrestrial shadows.
Glennville maintains a rhythm dictated by the cycles of agriculture and the long, slow seasons of the inland landscape. The economy is rooted in the stewardship of the land, drawing sustenance from the grazing cattle and the small-scale operations that have persisted here for generations. Life in Glennville is measured by the distance to Isabella Lake or the dusty, winding ascent of the Virginia Trail, places where the silence is broken only by the movement of wind through the oaks or the distant lowing of livestock. There is a distinct, unadorned quality to the way the days are spent, marked by a deliberate turning away from the frantic pace of more crowded regions. Residents here possess an awareness of the isolation that comes with such geography, finding a quiet satisfaction in a lifestyle that remains tethered to the fundamental realities of the soil and the changing seasons.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Glennville, California. Coordinates: 35.724194, -118.715217. 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 Glennville includes the ZIP code (93226, 93287), telephone area code (661), county seat of Kern County (Bakersfield), and school district assignment (Kern High 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. |