Explore Meridian, 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 Meridian, 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 Meridian.
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 | Meridian |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Sutter County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 39.140437 |
| Longitude | -121.9079 |
| Population | 304 |
| Density | 22.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 93203, 95129, 95957 |
| Area Code | 408, 669, 530 |
| County Seat | Yuba City |
| School District | Meridian Elementary School District |
Meridian anchors itself firmly to the flat, fertile expanse of the Sacramento River, where the water moves with a heavy, deliberate patience through the valley floor. It lies 15.9 miles west of Yuba City, CA (from Yuba City, CA: bearing 271°T), and is situated 7.1 miles southeast of Colusa. Sunlight here possesses a peculiar, syrupy quality, illuminating the dust motes that hang suspended over the level fields and the distant, hazy silhouette of the Coast Ranges that haunt the western horizon. To the east, the terrain dips toward the Mormon Basin, a landscape defined by the quiet persistence of agricultural cycles and the occasional, sudden rustle of life from the nearby Sutter Bypass Wildlife Area. The air carries the scent of turned earth and dry grasses, a sensory reminder that Meridian occupies a space shaped by the seasonal pulse of the river and the vast, unshadowed sky above.
Economic life in Meridian hums with the mechanical rhythm of harvest, deeply tied to the orchards and row crops that stretch toward the horizon in precise, geometric lines. The history of the settlement is etched into the irrigation ditches and the weathered architecture of local outbuildings, remnants of a time when the river served as the primary artery for trade and movement. While the modern world moves rapidly on distant freeways, the daily experience of Meridian remains tethered to the land, punctuated by the steady, unadorned labor of those who work the soil. Life here favors a certain stillness, a recognition that the true character of the place is found in the slow transition of light across the fields and the enduring, silent presence of the water that has sustained the region for generations.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Meridian, California. Coordinates: 39.140437, -121.9079. 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 Meridian includes the ZIP code (93203, 95129, 95957), telephone area code (408, 669, 530), county seat of Sutter County (Yuba City), and school district assignment (Meridian Elementary 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. |