Litchfield California Map

About Litchfield, California

Litchfield is a locality in Lassen County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 160. The population density is 15.5 people per km². Litchfield is located at 40.3827°N, 120.3872°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 96117.

Litchfield occupies a stretch of high-desert expanse where the wind carries the dry, sharp scent of sagebrush and parched earth. It lies 14.2 miles east of Susanville, CA (from Susanville, CA: bearing 99°T), and is situated 9.3 miles northeast of Janesville. The Susan River carves a deliberate path through the landscape, its cool, braided waters offering a persistent ribbon of silver against the tawny, sun-bleached plains. To the west, the jagged silhouette of the Cascade Range looms on the distant horizon like a charcoal sketch against the pale sky, while the proximity of Balls Canyon adds a rugged, vertical dimension to the horizon. The light here has a crystalline quality, bleaching the color from the midday grasses until they shimmer like pale straw, only to deepen into a bruised, resonant violet as the sun retreats behind the basin walls.

Litchfield remains a place defined by the quiet industry of the high plains, where the rhythms of agricultural work dictate the slow turning of the seasons. Residents often look toward the Honey Lake Wildlife Area, a sanctuary of wetlands and migratory flight paths that provides a necessary stillness to the surrounding arid terrain. Hartson Lake sits in the quiet periphery, a remnant of the region’s complex hydrological history that continues to shape the local sense of geography. Life in Litchfield moves with a deliberate, unadorned pace, grounded in the maintenance of fences and the seasonal migration of livestock, reflecting a resilience born from living in a landscape that neither asks for nor offers easy comfort.

About This Litchfield Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Litchfield, California. Coordinates: 40.382677, -120.387163. 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 Litchfield includes the ZIP code (96117), telephone area code (530), county seat of Lassen County (Susanville), and school district assignment (Lassen Union High School District).

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.