New Cuyama California Map
Explore New Cuyama, 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 New Cuyama, California
How to Use This New Cuyama, California Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for New Cuyama, 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 New Cuyama.
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 | New Cuyama |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Santa Barbara County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 34.946921 |
| Longitude | -119.685409 |
| Population | 542 |
| Density | 331.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 93254 |
| Area Code | 661 |
| County Seat | Santa Barbara |
| School District | Cuyama Joint Unified School District |
About New Cuyama, California
New Cuyama is a locality in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 542. The population density is 331.1 people per km². New Cuyama is located at 34.9469°N, 119.6854°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 93254.New Cuyama reveals itself as a stark expanse of high desert scrub and sun-bleached earth, where the Salisbury Canyon Wash carves a shallow, gravel-strewn scar across the floor of the valley. It lies 35.2 miles north of Eastern Goleta Valley, CA (from Eastern Goleta Valley, CA: bearing 9°T), and is situated 18.7 miles southwest of Taft. The horizon remains dominated by the vast, open sky, which shifts from a pale, blinding blue at noon to a bruised violet as the heat radiates off the basin. Richardson County Park sits quietly at the edge of the grid, offering a modest patch of native ground where the wind carries the dry, resinous scent of sage and sun-baked silt. Bee Rock Canyon looms two miles to the east, its rugged walls anchoring the landscape against the relentless push of the afternoon breeze.
Economic life in New Cuyama turns on the patient cycles of agriculture and the extraction of resources that have defined this plateau for decades. The infrastructure of the town remains sparse, marked by wide, empty streets that reflect the deliberate, quiet pace of a place built for endurance rather than display. While the Sierra Nevada remains nothing more than a distant, jagged suggestion on the far horizon, the local identity is firmly rooted in the immediate, gritty reality of the basin. Residents move through the day under a light that feels thin and absolute, observing the subtle changes in the shadows as they lengthen over the arid plains, twenty miles from the white, saline crust of Soda Lake.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Richardson County Park (Local Park) — 0.0 mi, 176° S
- Los Padres Other (National Forest) — 0.3 mi, 289° W · 895 acres
- Carrizo Plain National Monument (National Monument) — 2.3 mi, 345° N · 247k acres
- Los Padres National Forest (National Forest) — 3.7 mi, 191° S · 1.8M acres
- Caliente Mountain Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 4.1 mi, 318° NW · 18k acres
- Upper Cuyama Valley Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 5.8 mi, 103° E
- California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 7.2 mi, 326° NW
- San Rafael Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 7.9 mi, 221° SW · 191k acres
- Sisquoc, California Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 11.6 mi, 215° SW · 10k acres
- Szent András-törésvonal (San Andreas) (Attraction) — 11.7 mi, 012° N
- Carrizo Plains Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 12.3 mi, 013° N
- Dick Smith Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 12.3 mi, 165° S · 71k acres
- Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 13.0 mi, 089° E · 30k acres
- Sisquoc Condor Sanctuary (Nature Reserve) — 14.4 mi, 191° S
- Ethel D. Oil Tool & Supply House (Attraction) — 18.6 mi, 046° NE
- Oil Patch Fire House (Attraction) — 18.6 mi, 046° NE
- Jameson #17 (Attraction) — 18.6 mi, 046° NE
- Lakeview Gusher #1 (Monument) — 18.9 mi, 058° NE
- Santa Ynez Overlook (Viewpoint) — 22.1 mi, 229° SW
- Wallace Creek (Monument) — 23.8 mi, 340° N
- St Francis (Public Artwork) — 28.6 mi, 223° SW
- Ballard School (Monument) — 32.3 mi, 229° SW
- Root Cellar (Historic Ruins) — 32.5 mi, 177° S
- Possible Root Cellar Location (Historic Ruins) — 32.5 mi, 177° S
- San Emigdio Plantation (Nature Reserve) — 34.7 mi, 102° E
- Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (Museum) — 35.0 mi, 183° S
- Mission Santa Inés (Museum) — 35.3 mi, 227° SW
- Hans Christian Andersen Museum (Museum) — 35.4 mi, 227° SW
- The Hitchcock Cinema & Public House (Cinema) — 35.6 mi, 186° S
- Solvang Vintage Motorcycle Museum (Museum) — 35.6 mi, 227° SW
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About This New Cuyama Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of New Cuyama, California. Coordinates: 34.946921, -119.685409. 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 New Cuyama includes the ZIP code (93254), telephone area code (661), county seat of Santa Barbara County (Santa Barbara), and school district assignment (Cuyama Joint 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. |
