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Mountain Ranch California Map

Explore Mountain Ranch, 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.

Interactive Map of Mountain Ranch, California

How to Use This Mountain Ranch, California Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Mountain Ranch, 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 Mountain Ranch.

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	Mountain Ranch
State	California (CA)
County	Calaveras County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	38.211721
Longitude	-120.531115
Population	223
Density	22.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	95246
Area Code	408, 669
County Seat	San Andreas
School District	Calaveras Unified School District

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About Mountain Ranch, California

Mountain Ranch is a locality in Calaveras County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 223. The population density is 22.0 people per km². Mountain Ranch is located at 38.2117°N, 120.5311°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 95246.

Mountain Ranch emerges from the rugged, oak-dusted landscape where the earth deepens into the sun-baked depressions of Corral Gulch. It lies 35.5 miles south-southeast of Diamond Springs, CA (from Diamond Springs, CA: bearing 155°T), and is situated 7.9 miles east-northeast of San Andreas. Eldorado Creek carves a persistent, silver-threaded path through the terrain, its banks providing a cool sanctuary for the scrub oaks and grasses that turn to a brittle, pale amber under the weight of the summer heat. While the distant, serrated spine of the Sierra Nevada looms on the horizon as a hazy violet silhouette, the immediate geography is defined by the quiet stillness of the inland foothills. Two miles from the quiet surface of Emery Reservoir, the air holds a dry, resinous scent, and the light at dusk settles over the ridges in a thin, golden wash that makes the very shadows appear heavy and permanent.

Mountain Ranch carries the quiet echoes of a legacy built upon the extraction of earth’s hidden wealth and the slow, steady labor of the ranching life. The local economy has long since shifted away from the frantic pace of early mining, finding a new equilibrium in the rhythms of agriculture and the maintenance of a self-reliant, rural pace. Residents gather at Mountain Ranch Community Park, a patch of managed green that serves as the social anchor for those living among the scattered timber and brush. Though the rugged paths of Timber Trails wait nine miles away for the adventurous, the daily pulse of Mountain Ranch remains tied to the cycles of the seasons, far removed from the dense forests of Mount Zion State Forest, existing instead as a place where time seems to slow, held in place by the weight of the hills and the steady, unhurried flow of the local creek.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Mountain Ranch Community Park (Private Recreation) — 1.3 mi, 328° NW
California Caverns (Attraction) — 1.4 mi, 118° SE
Mercer Caverns (Attraction) — 5.1 mi, 145° SE
Murphys Pokey (Attraction) — 6.3 mi, 145° SE
Black Bart Playhouse (Theatre) — 6.4 mi, 145° SE
Stanislaus National Forest (National Forest) — 6.5 mi, 089° E · 901k acres
Top of the World (Viewpoint) — 8.0 mi, 076° E
Calaveras County Historical Museum (Museum) — 8.2 mi, 263° W
Metropolitan Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 8.2 mi, 263° W
Vallecito Western Mine (Monument) — 8.4 mi, 169° S
New Hogan Lake (Recreation Area) — 9.3 mi, 256° W
Mark Twain Monument (Monument) — 9.6 mi, 184° S
New Melones (Resource Management Area) — 10.0 mi, 162° S
Mokelumne River (Wild & Scenic River) — 10.2 mi, 329° NW · 2,737 acres
Moaning Caverns Adventure Park (Attraction) — 10.5 mi, 160° S
Sierra Nevada Logging Museum (Museum) — 10.8 mi, 070° E
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 11.5 mi, 146° SE
North Fork Mokelumne River (Wild & Scenic River) — 11.9 mi, 339° N · 2,970 acres
Calaveras Big Trees State Park (State Park) — 12.0 mi, 072° E
Historic Fallon House Theater (Theatre) — 14.2 mi, 150° SE
Springfield Armory/School/Store (Historic Ruins) — 14.6 mi, 154° SE
Me-Wuk Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 14.9 mi, 148° SE
Amador County Model Railroad Museum (Museum) — 14.9 mi, 335° NW
National Recreation Area (Nature Reserve) — 15.5 mi, 173° S
Eldorado National Forest (National Forest) — 16.4 mi, 009° N · 703k acres
Tailing Wheel No. 3 (Historic Ruins) — 16.8 mi, 308° NW
Dunlavy Field (Stadium) — 17.2 mi, 153° SE
Mokelumne Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 26.7 mi, 041° NE · 104k acres
Carson-Iceberg Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 32.3 mi, 060° NE · 159k acres
Yosemite National Park (National Park) — 37.4 mi, 109° E · 743k acres

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