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La Porte California Map

Explore La Porte, 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 La Porte, California

How to Use This La Porte, California Map

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

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

Latitude	39.672508
Longitude	-120.985244
Population	65
Density	5.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	95981
Area Code	530
County Seat	Quincy
School District	Plumas Unified School District

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About La Porte, California

La Porte is a locality in Plumas County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 65. The population density is 5.6 people per km². La Porte is located at 39.6725°N, 120.9852°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 95981.

La Porte occupies a rugged, high-elevation plateau where the air holds a persistent, pine-scented chill that lingers long after the sun has crested the surrounding ridges. It lies 32.3 miles north of Grass Valley, CA (from Grass Valley, CA: bearing 7°T), and is situated 18.0 miles south-southwest of East Quincy. Rabbit Creek carves a brisk, clear path through the terrain, its waters tumbling over moss-slicked stones and past the weathered foundations of a landscape defined by the expansive Plumas National Forest. A short distance away, the quiet surface of Little Grass Valley Reservoir mirrors the deep, coniferous green of the horizon, while the nearby expanse of Spanish Flat offers a reprieve of level ground amidst the broken, ascending topography. The light here does not merely illuminate; it clarifies, stripping the sharp edges of the granite outcrops and the rough bark of the conifers into stark, honest relief against the afternoon sky.

Gold-flecked earth and the hushed remnants of hydraulic mining define the history of La Porte, a place where the frenetic energy of the mid-nineteenth century has settled into a meditative, slow-burning endurance. While the economy once surged on the promise of mineral wealth extracted from the hills, the pulse of the locality now beats in rhythm with the seasons and the quiet stewardship of the surrounding timberlands. Travelers who find their way to the Little Grass Valley Trail often traverse ground that once teemed with prospectors, though today the primary industry is found in the maintenance of the wild and the seasonal migration of those seeking the silence of the woods. The character of La Porte remains tethered to this legacy of resourcefulness, where the woodsmoke rising from chimneys in the cold evenings serves as a steady, domestic anchor in a vast and indifferent landscape.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Plumas National Forest (National Forest) — locality lies within · 1.2M acres
Frank C. Reilly Museum (Museum) — 0.7 mi, 005° N
Tahoe National Forest (National Forest) — 3.6 mi, 143° SE · 895k acres
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 6.3 mi, 005° N
Pacific Crest Trail National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 6.5 mi, 359° N · 1,886 acres
Feather, California Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 9.5 mi, 344° N · 24k acres
Yuba Theatre (Theatre) — 11.4 mi, 133° SE
Downie Chapter 1249 (Monument) — 11.4 mi, 133° SE
Downieville Museum (Museum) — 11.4 mi, 133° SE
New Bullards Bar Reservoir (Local Recreation) — 12.1 mi, 215° SW
Feather Falls Scenic Area (National Scenic Byway) — 12.5 mi, 267° W
Lookout Rock (Viewpoint) — 13.1 mi, 328° NW
Plumas-Eureka State Park (State Park) — 14.7 mi, 070° E
Lake Oroville State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 15.8 mi, 261° W
Mammoth Mill (Historic Ruins) — 15.9 mi, 068° E
Pioneer Ski Area of America (Monument) — 16.3 mi, 069° E
Bucks Lake Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 17.1 mi, 332° NW · 24k acres
Plumas County Museum (Museum) — 18.3 mi, 006° N
Sierra Buttes Fire Lookout (Monument) — 18.8 mi, 107° E
Kentucky Mine Historic Park and Museum (Museum) — 20.5 mi, 110° E
South Yuba River State Park (State Park) — 22.8 mi, 172° S
Missouri Bar (Attraction) — 23.2 mi, 167° S
Illinois Bar (Attraction) — 23.5 mi, 177° S
Edwards Crossing (Attraction) — 23.6 mi, 180° S
China Dam (Attraction) — 23.7 mi, 186° S
Jolly Boys Mine (Historic Ruins) — 26.4 mi, 146° SE
Firehouse Number 1 Museum (Museum) — 28.3 mi, 183° S
Mystic Theater (Theatre) — 28.3 mi, 184° S
"snowshoe" Thompson (Public Artwork) — 41.0 mi, 124° SE
Lassen Volcanic National Park (National Park) — 53.8 mi, 345° N · 107k acres

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