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Johannesburg California Map

Explore Johannesburg, 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 Johannesburg, California

How to Use This Johannesburg, California Map

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

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

Latitude	35.372741
Longitude	-117.634782
Population	113
Density	17.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	93528
Area Code	760
County Seat	Bakersfield
School District	Sierra Sands Unified School District

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About Johannesburg, California

Johannesburg is a locality in Kern County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 113. The population density is 17.8 people per km². Johannesburg is located at 35.3727°N, 117.6348°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 93528.

Johannesburg sits upon a vast, arid expanse where the earth is hardened by relentless sun and the sparse, scrubby brush clings to the alkaline dust. It lies 17.4 miles south of Ridgecrest, CA (from Ridgecrest, CA: bearing 173°T), and is situated 19.9 miles south-southeast of China Lake Acres. The landscape of Johannesburg is defined by an expansive, open basin that stretches toward the horizon, where the distant, snow-dusted peaks of the Sierra Nevada appear as faint, jagged silhouettes against a pale sky. Five miles away, the terrain dips into the rugged creases of Hardcash Gulch, while the Fremont-Kramer Area of Critical Environmental Concern surrounds the settlement, preserving the quiet, stark solitude of the Mojave desert. When the sun begins its slow descent, the light takes on a bruised, amber quality, turning the gravel plains into a sheet of hammered copper that seems to vibrate in the cooling air.

Prospectors and miners once carved a life from these brittle hills, leaving behind the rusted skeletons of machinery and abandoned shafts that mark the economic inheritance of Johannesburg. Though the frenetic pulse of the gold rush has long since faded into a steady, low-frequency hum, the local economy remains tied to the earth, whether through small-scale mining ventures or the quiet passage of travelers navigating the high desert routes. Nine miles to the east, the intermittent flow of Teagle Wash remains largely hidden beneath the surface, a subterranean suggestion of water in a land that prizes every drop of moisture. Life in Johannesburg moves with the deliberate, unhurried pace of the desert wind, where the silence is as much a part of the architecture as the weathered wood and sun-bleached stone of its modest structures.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Fremont-Kramer Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 0.2 mi, 360° N
The Rand Desert Museum (Museum) — 1.2 mi, 254° W
Western Rand Mountains Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 2.5 mi, 282° W
Golden Valley Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 3.4 mi, 059° NE · 38k acres
Fremont Valley Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 338° N
X-15 Memorial (Monument) — 3.8 mi, 031° NE
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 5.2 mi, 000° N
West Mojave Desert Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 12.2 mi, 146° SE
El Paso Mountains Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 12.2 mi, 308° NW · 24k acres
Burro Schmidt Tunnel (Attraction) — 13.8 mi, 280° W
Red Rock Canyon State Park (State Park) — 14.8 mi, 271° W
Bickel Camp (Historic Ruins) — 14.9 mi, 287° W
Cudahy camp (Historic Ruins) — 16.6 mi, 279° W
Moment of Engagement (Public Artwork) — 17.3 mi, 353° N
Maturango Museum (Museum) — 17.9 mi, 354° N
Ridgecrest Cinema (Cinema) — 19.3 mi, 354° N
Red cliffs trail (Attraction) — 19.3 mi, 268° W
F-4 Phantom II - NWC China Lake 1374 (Attraction) — 19.3 mi, 354° N
Plane (Attraction) — 19.4 mi, 356° N
China Lake Museum (Museum) — 19.5 mi, 359° N
Naval Museum of Armament & Technology (Museum) — 19.5 mi, 359° N
Eastern Kern County Onyx Ranch State Vehicular Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 20.7 mi, 265° W
Husky Monument (Monument) — 20.9 mi, 121° SE
Josephine Stephens Bishop (Monument) — 21.3 mi, 257° W
Rio Tinto Borax Mine Visitor Center (Museum) — 23.9 mi, 187° S
Sequoia National Forest (National Forest) — 26.6 mi, 308° NW · 1.1M acres
Airplane graveyard viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 35.2 mi, 235° SW
Death Valley National Park (National Park) — 41.2 mi, 045° NE · 3.4M acres
Coy Burnett Stadium (Stadium) — 48.2 mi, 250° W

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