Explore Lytle Creek, 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 Lytle Creek, 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 Lytle Creek.
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 | Lytle Creek |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | San Bernardino County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 34.249926 |
| Longitude | -117.504431 |
| Population | 725 |
| Density | 46.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 92358 |
| Area Code | 909 |
| County Seat | San Bernardino |
| School District | Rialto Unified School District |
Lytle Creek carves a narrow, rugged path through the steep, boulder-strewn canyons where the North Fork Lytle Creek surges with snowmelt, tumbling over granite slabs toward the valley floor. It lies 9.3 miles north of Etiwanda, CA (from Etiwanda, CA: bearing 8°T), and is situated 15.9 miles northwest of San Bernardino. The landscape is defined by the sharp verticality of the terrain, with slopes that rise abruptly to meet the distant, jagged silhouette of the San Gabriel Mountains. Here, the San Bernardino National Forest envelops the landscape in a dense mantle of chaparral and timber, creating a stark, high-altitude environment where the air thins and cools rapidly as the sun slips behind the ridgeline. The light at dusk strikes the canyon walls with a heavy, golden intensity, deepening the shadows until the entire basin feels compressed, a quiet pocket of wilderness that remains untamed by the sprawling development found miles away in the lowlands.
History clings to the rocky banks of Lytle Creek, echoing the era of mid-nineteenth-century settlers who sought mineral wealth in the streambeds and established a foothold in this isolated corridor. Today, the economy leans toward seasonal recreation, as visitors arrive to navigate the rugged incline of the Cucamonga Peak Trail or seek relief from the heat in the shaded reaches of the nearby San Bernardino National Forest. While Lone Pine Canyon looms just two miles away as a testament to the seismic forces shaping the region, life in Lytle Creek maintains a persistent, deliberate pace, governed more by the seasonal flow of the water than by the frantic rhythms of the distant metropolitan grid. Residents share the space with the pervasive influence of the forest, an existence defined by the constant, low-frequency hum of moving water and the absolute stillness that settles over the canyon once the evening temperatures drop.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lytle Creek, California. Coordinates: 34.249926, -117.504431. 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 Lytle Creek includes the ZIP code (92358), telephone area code (909), county seat of San Bernardino County (San Bernardino), and school district assignment (Rialto 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. |