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Pearsonville California Map

Explore Pearsonville, 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 Pearsonville, California

How to Use This Pearsonville, California Map

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

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

Latitude	35.822945
Longitude	-117.87825
Population	8
Density	0.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	93527
Area Code	760
County Seat	Independence
School District	Lone Pine Unified School District

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About Pearsonville, California

Pearsonville is a locality in Inyo County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 8. The population density is 0.8 people per km². Pearsonville is located at 35.8229°N, 117.8782°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 93527.

Pearsonville occupies a stark, sun-bleached expanse of the high desert where the horizon feels as vast and unyielding as a held breath. It lies 17.2 miles northwest of Ridgecrest, CA (from Ridgecrest, CA: bearing 319°T), and is situated 13.2 miles north-northwest of China Lake Acres. The landscape around Pearsonville is defined by the severe architecture of the earth, characterized by the rugged, rocky terrain of Noname Canyon just a few miles away and the distant, hazy silhouette of the Sierra Nevada visible only as a faint, jagged promise on the far western edge of the world. Water is a rare and precious guest here, with the modest flow of Spanish Needle Creek carving its path through the arid brush eight miles from the center, and the quiet, distant presence of South Haiwee Reservoir marking the northern reaches of the regional map. The light at dusk here possesses a peculiar, metallic clarity, turning the scrub brush into silhouettes of iron and gold against a sky that seems to deepen into an endless, bruised violet.

Pearsonville exists as a solitary waypoint, a place where the economy has long been tethered to the relentless movement of the road and the salvage of what remains when machines reach the end of their utility. The local character is shaped by the proximity to the Sierra Canyons Area of Critical Environmental Concern, a designation that preserves the fragile integrity of the desert floor just a mile from the outskirts. Life in Pearsonville moves with the slow, deliberate pace of a place that has learned to endure the heat and the wind, favoring a resilience born from the isolation of the high plains. It is a location of weathered metal and dry earth, where the history of the region is measured not in grand monuments, but in the quiet persistence of those who choose to live where the desert reveals its true, unadorned self.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Mohave Ground Squirrel Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 0.6 mi, 305° NW
Sierra Canyons Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 0.6 mi, 260° W
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 1.3 mi, 001° N
Owens Peak Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 1.8 mi, 271° W · 77k acres
Sacatar Trail Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 3.2 mi, 302° NW · 53k acres
Pacific Crest Trail National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 7.3 mi, 264° W · 1,886 acres
Little Lake Viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 8.6 mi, 352° N
Owens Peak Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 10.6 mi, 253° W · 935 acres
Sacatar Meadows Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 11.9 mi, 307° NW · 300 acres
Sequoia National Forest (National Forest) — 13.8 mi, 216° SW · 1.1M acres
Walker's Pass (Monument) — 13.9 mi, 217° SW
Ridgecrest Cinema (Cinema) — 16.7 mi, 136° SE
F-4 Phantom II - NWC China Lake 1374 (Attraction) — 16.7 mi, 135° SE
Plane (Attraction) — 17.0 mi, 133° SE
Kern, California Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 17.2 mi, 292° W · 25k acres
Inyo National Forest (National Forest) — 17.5 mi, 338° N · 2.0M acres
Naval Museum of Armament & Technology (Museum) — 17.6 mi, 131° SE
China Lake Museum (Museum) — 17.6 mi, 131° SE
Maturango Museum (Museum) — 17.7 mi, 139° SE
Jet Model (Public Artwork) — 17.9 mi, 140° SE
Little Petroglyphs (Historic Ruins) — 19.2 mi, 052° NE
Big Petroglyphs (Historic Ruins) — 19.2 mi, 038° NE
Burro Schmidt Tunnel (Attraction) — 28.5 mi, 180° S
Kern Valley Museum (Museum) — 31.1 mi, 262° W
Chinook helicopter (Attraction) — 31.3 mi, 034° NE
X-15 Memorial (Monument) — 31.9 mi, 151° SE
The Rand Desert Museum (Museum) — 33.8 mi, 158° S
The Joshua Tree album location (Monument) — 35.9 mi, 012° N
Death Valley National Park (National Park) — 38.7 mi, 030° NE · 3.4M acres
Coy Burnett Stadium (Stadium) — 57.2 mi, 213° SW

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