Explore Mount Hermon, 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 Mount Hermon, 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 Mount Hermon.
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 | Mount Hermon |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Santa Cruz County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 37.05106 |
| Longitude | -122.058575 |
| Population | 1,110 |
| Density | 659.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 95041, 95018 |
| Area Code | 408, 669 |
| County Seat | Santa Cruz |
| School District | San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District |
Mount Hermon reveals itself as a sanctuary of towering redwoods and steep, shadowed canyons, where the air remains perpetually cool and fragrant with the scent of damp earth. It lies 2.4 miles west of Scotts Valley, CA (from Scotts Valley, CA: bearing 270°T), and is situated 5.5 miles north-northwest of Santa Cruz. Ferndell Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the landscape, its rhythmic bubbling serving as a constant companion to the quiet residential enclaves that occupy the slopes. Beyond the immediate canopy, the terrain rises into rugged ridges, while the influence of the Pacific Ocean manifests in the cool, gray fog that frequently rolls inland to blanket the trees in a soft, silver veil. Residents here often traverse the nearby Meadow Trail to reach the borders of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, where the ancient, colossal trunks stand as silent witnesses to the slow passage of time in this sheltered woodland.
Mount Hermon carries a legacy rooted in early religious retreat movements, a history that continues to shape the tranquil, deliberate pace of daily life. While the local economy is largely defined by this heritage of spiritual and recreational gathering, the proximity to Gold Gulch and the modest, shimmering depths of Spring Lakes provides a quiet contrast to the dense forest surroundings. The community maintains a distinct character, favoring a retreat from the frantic pulse of modern commerce in favor of the dappled light and the stillness found beneath the canopy. Though the distant peaks of the Coast Ranges silhouette the horizon, life in Mount Hermon remains focused on the immediate, tangible beauty of its own shadowed glens and the persistent, life-giving flow of its local waters.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mount Hermon, California. Coordinates: 37.05106, -122.058575. 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 Mount Hermon includes the ZIP code (95041, 95018), telephone area code (408, 669), county seat of Santa Cruz County (Santa Cruz), and school district assignment (San Lorenzo Valley 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. |