Explore Hiouchi, 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 Hiouchi, 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 Hiouchi.
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 | Hiouchi |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Del Norte County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 41.792614 |
| Longitude | -124.072022 |
| Population | 314 |
| Density | 209.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 95531 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| County Seat | Crescent City |
| School District | Del Norte County Unified School District |
Hiouchi endures as a quiet convergence of water and ancient timber where the Smith River carves a serpentine path through the landscape. It lies 58.5 miles north of McKinleyville, CA (from McKinleyville, CA: bearing 1°T), and is situated 7.1 miles east-northeast of Crescent City. The air here holds a permanent, cool dampness, a byproduct of the sea mist that drifts inland from the Pacific Ocean to cling to the heavy bark of the trees. To the east, the distant, jagged silhouettes of the Klamath Mountains anchor the horizon, while closer at hand, the terrain dips into the shadowed, verdant basin of Allens Gulch. The light in the morning is often a thin, translucent gray, filtering through the canopy to illuminate the moss-slicked stones along the riverbank before the sun burns the fog away from the forest floor.
Hiouchi remains defined by its position at the edge of Redwood National Park, a boundary that dictates the slow, deliberate pulse of its daily life. Historically, the rhythms of the local economy have been tied to the extraction and stewardship of the surrounding timber, though the modern reality leans toward the preservation of these massive, silent groves. While Bummer Lake rests in the solitude of the higher elevations and the Paradise Trail offers a measured path for those seeking the solitude of the woods, the community itself exists as a functional outpost for travelers passing through the Six Rivers National Forest. Residents move with the caution of people accustomed to the scale of their environment, where the proximity to the coast and the wild, unyielding nature of the river suggest that the land remains the true authority over the settlement.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hiouchi, California. Coordinates: 41.792614, -124.072022. 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 Hiouchi includes the ZIP code (95531), telephone area code (530), county seat of Del Norte County (Crescent City), and school district assignment (Del Norte County 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. |