Explore Nubieber, 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 Nubieber, 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 Nubieber.
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 | Nubieber |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Lassen County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 41.095721 |
| Longitude | -121.183029 |
| Population | 19 |
| Density | 9.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 96068 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| County Seat | Susanville |
| School District | Big Valley Joint Unified School District |
Nubieber occupies a vast, high-altitude plateau where the horizon stretches thin and pale against the sky. It lies 54.5 miles north-northwest of Susanville, CA (from Susanville, CA: bearing 330°T), and is situated 29.0 miles east-northeast of Burney. The landscape around Nubieber is defined by expansive, grassy plains that transition into the rocky, rugged terrain of Rawl Canyon just three miles to the west. To the east, the ground levels out into a quiet, arid expanse, while the distant, jagged silhouette of the Cascade Range anchors the western view like a permanent, snow-dusted boundary. Water moves slowly through this high country, marked by the persistent, winding path of Egg Lake Slough, which cuts through the sagebrush a mile from the center of the grid. Nearby, the water of Thompson Reservoir holds a flat, metallic reflection of the clouds, providing a cool stillness that contrasts with the heat radiating off the sun-baked soil during the long summer afternoons.
Life in Nubieber remains tied to the cycles of the earth and the quiet persistence of the high desert economy. Local rhythms are dictated by the remnants of the old railroad lines that once funneled timber and livestock toward larger markets, leaving behind a legacy of weathered wood and iron tracks. Residents often find their way to Clara Beiber Memorial Park, a modest stretch of land three miles away that serves as a quiet gathering point in an otherwise wide-open geography. The air here is thin and sharp, carrying the scent of dry bunchgrass and basalt, and the silence of the plains is rarely broken by anything more than the wind rattling through the fence lines. It is a place where the scale of the landscape dwarfs the human footprint, leaving the buildings to stand as small, solitary markers against the immense, shifting light of the high plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Nubieber, California. Coordinates: 41.095721, -121.183029. 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 Nubieber includes the ZIP code (96068), telephone area code (530), county seat of Lassen County (Susanville), and school district assignment (Big Valley 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. |