Explore North El Monte, 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 North El Monte, 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 North El Monte.
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 | North El Monte |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Los Angeles County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 34.102786 |
| Longitude | -118.024233 |
| Population | 3,730 |
| Density | 3388.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 91006, 91780 |
| Area Code | 310, 424, 818, 747 |
| County Seat | Los Angeles |
| School District | El Monte City School District |
North El Monte occupies a flat expanse where the quiet concrete arteries of the basin meet the persistent, sediment-heavy flow of the Rio Hondo. It lies 1.9 miles east of Temple City, CA (from Temple City, CA: bearing 99°T), and is situated 7.5 miles east-southeast of Pasadena. Beyond the immediate grid of streets, the horizon is held by the jagged, sun-bleached silhouette of the San Gabriel Mountains, standing fourteen miles distant as a silent, monolithic barrier. The air here holds the dry, static heat of the interior, shimmering over the pavement where the Arcadia Par-3 Golf Course offers a verdant, manicured pause in the landscape. Sunlight pools in the gutters during the late afternoon, turning the dust of the valley floor into a pale, translucent haze that softens the edges of the industrial warehouses and residential blocks alike.
North El Monte carries the weight of a working landscape, defined by its proximity to the natural drainage of the earth and the shifting currents of regional commerce. Where once the land favored the simple labor of the field, the economy has matured into a dense network of logistics and small-scale manufacturing that keeps the pulse of the locality steady and pragmatic. The history of the region is written in the transition from open plains to a tightly woven urban skin, punctuated by the occasional recreational green space that echoes the character of the nearby Ruby Canyon. Life proceeds with a rhythmic, unadorned diligence, as residents move beneath a sky that often reflects the stark, clear light of the inland plains, far removed from the damp atmosphere of the distant coast.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of North El Monte, California. Coordinates: 34.102786, -118.024233. 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 North El Monte includes the ZIP code (91006, 91780), telephone area code (310, 424, 818, 747), county seat of Los Angeles County (Los Angeles), and school district assignment (El Monte City 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. |