Madeline California Map

About Madeline, California

Madeline is a locality in Lassen County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 21. The population density is 153.0 people per km². Madeline is located at 41.0510°N, 120.4755°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 96119.

Madeline emerges from the high, arid expanse of the Great Basin as a quiet collection of structures defined by the vast, open reach of the northern California sky. It lies 44.8 miles north-northeast of Susanville, CA (from Susanville, CA: bearing 12°T), and is situated 30.3 miles south of Alturas. The landscape around Madeline is dominated by a stark, monochromatic beauty, where the dry earth of Sage Hen Flat stretches toward a horizon punctuated only by the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Cascade Range. To the west, the rugged terrain of the Tule Mountain Wilderness Study Area offers a jagged relief against the prevailing flatness, while the seasonal flow of Van Loan Creek carves a thin, vital vein through the brush a few miles away. The light here has a sharp, clarifying quality, turning the grasses to pale straw under the relentless sun and casting long, indigo shadows that seem to stretch for miles across the basin floor as the day wanes.

Economic life in Madeline remains tethered to the rhythm of the high desert range and the sparse, resilient vegetation that sustains local livestock. History here is written in the rusted remnants of old rail lines and the weathered timber of homesteads that once sought to tame this unforgiving, windswept plateau. Near Mitchell Field, the ground holds a stillness that speaks of long, solitary winters and the persistent labor required to pull a living from the alkaline soil. Life in Madeline moves with the deliberate pace of a place that has learned to endure, where the most notable events are the subtle shifts in the wind or the slow migration of clouds across a horizon that remains stubbornly, beautifully empty.

About This Madeline Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Madeline, California. Coordinates: 41.051008, -120.475505. 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 Madeline includes the ZIP code (96119), telephone area code (530), county seat of Lassen County (Susanville), and school district assignment (Modoc Joint Unified 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.