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Greenville California Map

Explore Greenville, 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 Greenville, California

How to Use This Greenville, California Map

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

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

Latitude	40.133603
Longitude	-120.945333
Population	1,026
Density	49.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	95925, 95947
Area Code	530
County Seat	Quincy
School District	Plumas Unified School District

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About Greenville, California

Greenville is a locality in Plumas County, California, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,026. The population density is 49.6 people per km². Greenville is located at 40.1336°N, 120.9453°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 95925, 95947.

Greenville occupies a rugged basin where the earth folds into the deep shadows of North Canyon. It lies 24.7 miles southwest of Susanville, CA (from Susanville, CA: bearing 220°T), and is situated 14.5 miles north of East Quincy. Wolf Creek carves a persistent silver vein through the floor of the valley, its waters moving with a cold, insistent clarity that marks the rhythm of the changing seasons. To the east, the jagged spine of the Cascade Range haunts the horizon, a distant and imposing wall of stone that dictates the flow of wind and weather across the canopy. Dense timber spills downward from the periphery of Lassen National Forest, pressing against the edges of the settlement with a weight of pine and cedar. Within the center of the grid, Triangle Park maintains a quiet patch of green, a small, terrestrial anchor where the light of late afternoon catches the dust motes and turns the air to a bruised, golden amber.

Greenville emerged from the hard labor of the nineteenth-century mining era, a legacy written in the weathered timber of its older structures and the persistence of its people. The local economy has long leaned upon the extraction of resources and the stewardship of the surrounding woods, though the pace of commerce now follows the slower, deliberate pulse of a place rebuilding its own foundations. Life here is defined by the proximity of the wild, as residents move between the necessities of the day and the looming presence of the timberlands. Seven miles away, the vast, still surface of Mountain Meadows Reservoir reflects the clouds, providing a quiet reprieve from the work of the valley floor. Greenville remains a place where the history of the soil is never far from the surface, persistent as the creek that runs through the dark, quiet earth of the canyon.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Plumas National Forest (National Forest) — 0.1 mi, 094° E · 1.2M acres
Greenville Community Park (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 061° NE
Lassen National Forest (National Forest) — 4.4 mi, 014° N · 1.1M acres
Vehicle (Historic Ruins) — 8.0 mi, 281° W
Butterfly Valley Botanical Area (National Scenic Byway) — 8.5 mi, 196° S
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 11.2 mi, 353° N
Mud Lake Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 12.2 mi, 077° E
Plumas County Museum (Museum) — 13.7 mi, 181° S
Bucks Lake Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 14.4 mi, 226° SW · 24k acres
Pacific Crest Trail National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 17.0 mi, 216° SW · 1,886 acres
Feather, California Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 19.0 mi, 175° S · 24k acres
Chester-Lake Almanor Museum (Museum) — 19.3 mi, 309° NW
Lookout Rock (Viewpoint) — 22.6 mi, 203° SW
Lassen County Arts Council (Gallery) — 24.7 mi, 037° NE
Lassen Historical Museum (Museum) — 24.9 mi, 038° NE
Lassen Volcanic Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 25.7 mi, 321° NW · 79k acres
Lassen Volcanic National Park (National Park) — 25.7 mi, 321° NW · 107k acres
Plumas-Eureka State Park (State Park) — 26.2 mi, 152° SE
Mammoth Mill (Historic Ruins) — 28.9 mi, 154° SE
Pioneer Ski Area of America (Monument) — 29.2 mi, 153° SE
Merrill Amphitheater (Theatre) — 29.5 mi, 014° N
Terminal Geyser (Attraction) — 30.2 mi, 311° NW
Frank C. Reilly Museum (Museum) — 31.2 mi, 184° S
Devils Kitchen (Attraction) — 33.4 mi, 310° NW
Western Pacific Railroad Museum (Museum) — 33.7 mi, 132° SE
Bumpass Hell (Attraction) — 36.9 mi, 308° NW
Sulphur Works (Attraction) — 38.0 mi, 305° NW
Downie Chapter 1249 (Monument) — 40.1 mi, 171° S
Yuba Theatre (Theatre) — 40.1 mi, 171° S
Sierra Buttes Fire Lookout (Monument) — 40.5 mi, 157° SE

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