Explore Panorama Heights, 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 Panorama Heights, 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 Panorama Heights.
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 | Panorama Heights |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | San Bernardino County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 35.806768 |
| Longitude | -118.627053 |
| Population | 44 |
| Density | 35.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 92705, 92252, 93260 |
| Area Code | 714, 661 |
| County Seat | San Bernardino |
| School District | Porterville Unified School District (9-12) |
Panorama Heights occupies a stark, sun-bleached expanse where the earth meets the sky in a relentless display of desert geometry. It lies 9.6 miles west of Twentynine Palms, CA (from Twentynine Palms, CA: bearing 265°T), and is situated 5.3 miles east of Joshua Tree. Dry, obsidian-colored soil crumbles underfoot, leading the eye toward the distant, jagged silhouette of the Bartlett Mountains that hem in the horizon like a jagged iron fence. Beyond the immediate grit of the low-lying plains, the landscape opens into the vast, arid reaches of Joshua Tree National Park, where the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the shifting of heat waves against the horizon. When the sun begins its slow descent, the air takes on a brittle, golden clarity, casting long, skeletal shadows from the creosote bushes that cling to the parched basin floor.
Panorama Heights emerged from the quiet expansion of inland homesteading, a place defined by the necessity of water and the rugged resilience of those who sought a life away from the dense, humid corridors of the interior. Economic life here pulses with the slow, deliberate pace of a region shaped by the seasonal flow of Quail Wash, a dry watercourse that reminds residents of the dormant power hidden beneath the dust. While the nearby Coyote Valley serves as a corridor for the local transit of light industry and regional trade, the character of Panorama Heights remains tied to the expanse of the desert, where the quiet rhythm of the day is measured by the migration of light across the rock. Travelers passing through on their way toward the challenging elevation of the Ryan Mountain Trail often pause to acknowledge the profound silence that defines the local atmosphere, a stillness that has persisted long after the early surveyors moved on.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Panorama Heights, California. Coordinates: 35.806768, -118.627053. 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 Panorama Heights includes the ZIP code (92705, 92252, 93260), telephone area code (714, 661), county seat of San Bernardino County (San Bernardino), and school district assignment (Porterville Unified School District (9-12)).
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. |