Explore Pine Hills, 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 Pine Hills, 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 Pine Hills.
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 | Pine Hills |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | San Diego County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 40.732892 |
| Longitude | -124.161095 |
| Population | 3,186 |
| Density | 121.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 92036, 95503 |
| Area Code | 714, 530 |
| County Seat | San Diego |
| School District | Eureka City Unified School District (7-12) |
Pine Hills occupies a rugged expanse where the earth settles into the quiet, sun-baked basin of Coleman Flat. It lies 9.3 miles east-northeast of San Diego Country Estates, CA (from San Diego Country Estates, CA: bearing 72°T), and is situated 13.7 miles east of Ramona. The landscape is defined by the sharp, upward thrust of Cosmit Peak, which monitors the horizon like a weathered sentinel above the scrub and chaparral. Dehr Creek carves a thin, seasonal vein through the terrain, its banks offering a rare pocket of moisture where the dust of the dry season momentarily yields to the persistence of willow and wild grass. During the late afternoon, the light shifts into a heavy, amber clarity that seems to sharpen the edges of every rock and oak, casting long, thin shadows that pull the color from the parched ground until the world turns the shade of old parchment.
Pine Hills maintains a sparse, deliberate economy, tethered to the land’s capacity for endurance rather than rapid expansion. The surrounding acreage, particularly the protected borders of Eagle Peak Ranch, preserves a sense of isolation that has defined the character of the inhabitants for generations. Those who drift toward the Inaja Nature National Recreation Trail seek a solitude found only in these interior reaches, far from the frantic pace of the urban centers. Life here moves with the slow, predictable swing of the seasons, occasionally punctuated by the distant, mirrored surface of El Capitan Lake, which catches the sky and holds it still. It is a place where the history of the soil remains etched in the stubborn growth of the brush, and the silence of the afternoon is a tangible commodity, respected by all who linger in the heat.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pine Hills, California. Coordinates: 40.732892, -124.161095. 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 Pine Hills includes the ZIP code (92036, 95503), telephone area code (714, 530), county seat of San Diego County (San Diego), and school district assignment (Eureka City Unified School District (7-12)).
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. |