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Niland California Map

Explore Niland, 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 Niland, California

How to Use This Niland, California Map

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

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	Niland
State	California (CA)
County	Imperial County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	33.240037
Longitude	-115.518876
Population	756
Density	726.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	92257
Area Code	714
County Seat	El Centro
School District	Calipatria Unified School District

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About Niland, California

Niland is a locality in Imperial County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 756. The population density is 726.1 people per km². Niland is located at 33.2400°N, 115.5189°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 92257.

Niland occupies a flat, sun-bleached expanse of the Imperial Valley, where the horizon stretches thin and taut against a sky of unrelenting, pale clarity. It lies 18.1 miles north of Brawley, CA (from Brawley, CA: bearing 2°T), and is situated 7.9 miles north of Calipatria. The landscape is defined by the stark, desiccated earth and the distant, rugged silhouette of the Chocolate Mountains, which bruise the edge of the view in shades of violet and rusted copper as the sun retreats. Only a mile away, the quiet expanse of the California State Lands Commission serves as a buffer between the built environment and the raw, unyielding desert floor. Siphon Seven tracks through the low ground two miles to the west, a narrow artery of water cutting through the dust, while four miles beyond, the Salton Sea sits heavy and stagnant, a shimmering plate of mineral-crusted water that anchors the stillness of the basin.

Niland grew from the needs of the railroad, a place where the pulse of commerce once beat in the rhythmic iron clamor of passing freight, though the current economy now lingers in the quiet persistence of local agriculture and the slow, weathered repurposing of the desert. The air here carries the scent of dry earth and the faint, chemical tang of the nearby lake, a reminder of the fragility of life in a basin that demands much of those who remain. Abandoned structures and art installations dot the periphery, standing as brittle witnesses to the shifting fortunes of the region, yet there is a singular beauty in the way the twilight light catches the dust motes, turning the entire valley into a theater of shifting gold and gray. Life in Niland moves with a deliberate, sparse cadence, indifferent to the frantic velocity of the outside world, defined instead by the vast, silent weight of the desert floor and the heat that shapes the day.

Nearby Outdoor Places

California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 0.9 mi, 188° S
Imperial Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.0 mi, 270° W
Noah's Ark (Public Artwork) — 2.8 mi, 070° E
Niland-Geyser (Attraction) — 4.6 mi, 312° NW
Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 5.5 mi, 270° W · 64k acres
Salt Flats And Steel Cubes (Removed) (Attraction) — 5.8 mi, 234° SW
Salton Sea (Recreation Area) — 8.6 mi, 274° W
Lake Cahuilla Shoreline Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 13.1 mi, 133° SE
The Polaroid Museum (Attraction) — 14.4 mi, 303° NW
Electric Lounge (Attraction) — 14.4 mi, 302° NW
Photography Bird Hide (Viewpoint) — 15.6 mi, 225° SW
Salton Sea State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 17.2 mi, 303° NW
Chuckwalla Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 17.7 mi, 052° NE
North Algodones Dunes Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 19.1 mi, 129° SE · 26k acres
Rake Tower (Historic Ruins) — 19.5 mi, 135° SE
Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 20.5 mi, 017° N · 102k acres
Site of Fort Romulado Pacheco (Historic Castle / Fort) — 29.1 mi, 200° S
Where the Old Barbara Worth Hotel Stood (Monument) — 31.0 mi, 184° S
Historical Watering Trough (Monument) — 31.0 mi, 185° S
Milton Leeper (Monument) — 31.2 mi, 187° S
Joshua Tree National Park (National Park) — 32.6 mi, 356° N · 784k acres
Santa Rosa And San Jacinto National Monument (National Monument) — 35.7 mi, 291° W · 280k acres
Santa Rosa-San Jacinto Mountains National Monument (National Monument) — 35.7 mi, 291° W · 195k acres
ICC museo UABC (Museum) — 39.9 mi, 175° S
Cinema Curto (Theatre) — 39.9 mi, 177° S
Early Indian Fish Traps (Historic Ruins) — 46.4 mi, 300° NW
Sky Art Desert Sculpture Garden (Gallery) — 49.5 mi, 274° W
Borrego Art Institute (Arts Centre) — 49.6 mi, 272° W
Campfire Circle (Theatre) — 50.0 mi, 262° W
Coachella Valley History Museum (Museum) — 52.5 mi, 310° NW

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