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Kettleman City California Map

Explore Kettleman City, 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 Kettleman City, California

How to Use This Kettleman City, California Map

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

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	Kettleman City
State	California (CA)
County	Kings County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	36.008286
Longitude	-119.9618
Population	1,242
Density	2272.7 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	93239
Area Code	661
County Seat	Hanford
School District	Reef-Sunset Unified School District

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About Kettleman City, California

Kettleman City is a locality in Kings County, California, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,242. The population density is 2272.7 people per km². Kettleman City is located at 36.0083°N, 119.9618°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 93239.

Kettleman City anchors itself to the parched, sun-baked earth where the Governor Edmund G Brown California Aqueduct cuts a precise, concrete artery through the sprawling dust of the valley floor. It lies 9.4 miles east of Avenal, CA (from Avenal, CA: bearing 88°T), and is situated 15.6 miles south-southeast of Huron. High-tension wires hum with a persistent, low-frequency vibration that seems to vibrate against the very heat waves rising from the asphalt, while the distant, hazy silhouette of the Sierra Nevada waits at the edge of perception like a mirage. To the west, the arid expanse of La Marmita stretches toward the horizon, its terrain offering a stark contrast to the verdant, irrigated rows of crops that define the surrounding agricultural grid. The air here carries the scent of dry earth and sun-warmed concrete, a stillness that persists even as the wind rattles the dry brush near the Kettleman Hills Area of Critical Environmental Concern, reminding the traveler that this landscape is governed by the slow, tectonic shifts of deep, hidden fault lines.

Kettleman City serves as a functional waypoint for those traversing the vast interior, its local economy tethered to the pulse of the interstate and the relentless rhythm of the surrounding fields. History is written here not in grand monuments, but in the layers of sediment and the persistent survival of those who work the soil under a relentless, unrelenting sun. The proximity to the Kettleman Hills Area of Critical Environmental Concern provides a rugged boundary to the north, protecting pockets of unique, fragile habitat that remain untouched by the heavy machinery of the regional harvest. Life in Kettleman City is defined by the transition between the stillness of the open plains and the constant movement of the traffic, a place where the golden light of late afternoon softens the harsh geometry of the infrastructure, turning the gray concrete and brown earth into a landscape of quiet, monochromatic intensity.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Kettleman Hills Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 3.3 mi, 204° SW
Panoche/coalinga Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 9.1 mi, 297° NW
Caltrans Fallen Workers Memorial District (Monument) — 10.3 mi, 303° NW
Pleasant Valley Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 15.9 mi, 300° NW
Semitropic Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 17.3 mi, 172° S
Lemoore Naval Air Station (Monument) — 17.5 mi, 010° N
Lemoore Civic Auditorium (Theatre) — 22.4 mi, 026° NE
Kern National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.6 mi, 133° SE · 22k acres
R C Baker Memorial Museum (Museum) — 24.1 mi, 292° W
Pixley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 26.7 mi, 086° E · 15k acres
James Dean Memorial (Monument) — 27.2 mi, 224° SW
Metro 4 Cinema (Cinema) — 28.2 mi, 039° NE
Carnegie Museum (Museum) — 28.3 mi, 039° NE
Kings Art Center (Arts Centre) — 28.4 mi, 038° NE
Veterans Memorial Auditorium (Theatre) — 29.8 mi, 011° N
White Creek (Wild & Scenic River) — 33.7 mi, 297° NW · 3,908 acres
Preston's Pride (Attraction) — 36.6 mi, 074° E
Galaxy Theatres (Cinema) — 38.1 mi, 066° NE
End of Trail Statue (Public Artwork) — 40.7 mi, 063° NE
Pioneer Village Museum (Museum) — 43.6 mi, 025° NE
Art Gonzales Museum (Museum) — 43.6 mi, 025° NE
Los Padres National Forest (National Forest) — 43.8 mi, 207° SW · 1.8M acres
Heritage Park Museum (Museum) — 43.8 mi, 113° SE
Franklin Hot Springs (Attraction) — 47.9 mi, 233° SW
Vehicle (Historic Ruins) — 48.6 mi, 305° NW
Truck (Historic Ruins) — 48.8 mi, 306° NW
Machesna Mountain Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 48.9 mi, 194° S · 19k acres
Carrizo Plain National Monument (National Monument) — 49.9 mi, 172° S · 247k acres
Sequoia National Park (National Park) — 68.6 mi, 061° NE · 407k acres
Kings Canyon National Park (National Park) — 73.7 mi, 047° NE · 459k acres

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