Explore Phillipsville, 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 Phillipsville, 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 Phillipsville.
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 | Phillipsville |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Humboldt County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 40.209032 |
| Longitude | -123.785866 |
| Population | 124 |
| Density | 67.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 95559 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| County Seat | Eureka |
| School District | Southern Humboldt Joint Unified School District |
Phillipsville marks a quiet convergence of shadow and soil where the South Fork Eel River carves a deliberate path through the earth. It lies 33.2 miles southeast of Fortuna, CA (from Fortuna, CA: bearing 144°T), and is situated 26.2 miles southeast of Rio Dell. The air here holds the heavy, resinous scent of ancient timber, a density that seems to press against the eaves of the houses and the edges of the road. Humboldt Redwoods State Park encompasses the surrounding territory, its towering, vaulted canopy filtering the daylight into thin, amber needles that pierce the forest floor. Beyond the immediate shade of the trees, the land transitions into the open expanse of Coombs Field, where the grasses bleach to a pale straw under the relentless summer sun. Far to the east, the jagged silhouette of the Klamath Mountains occasionally catches the low, bruised light of dusk, reminding those who dwell here of the immense, folded geography that isolates this inland corridor from the rest of the world.
Phillipsville traces its lineage to the rugged labor of the timber industry, a history etched into the weathered wood of its older structures and the purposeful, slow-turning pace of life. While the rhythm of the economy has shifted over the decades, the local character remains tethered to the land, shaped by the cycles of the seasons and the quiet maintenance of the forest. Residents find respite along the Stephens Grove Loop Trail, where the silence is broken only by the movement of wind through the boughs or the distant, steady murmur of the river. Life in Phillipsville is defined by this proximity to the wild, a persistent awareness of the untamed growth that surrounds the clearing. It is a place where the modern world feels distant, replaced by the profound, unyielding gravity of the inland woods and the simple, daily necessity of enduring the heat of the season.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Phillipsville, California. Coordinates: 40.209032, -123.785866. 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 Phillipsville includes the ZIP code (95559), telephone area code (530), county seat of Humboldt County (Eureka), and school district assignment (Southern Humboldt 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. |