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Pond California Map

Explore Pond, 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 Pond, California

How to Use This Pond, California Map

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

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

Latitude	35.717733
Longitude	-119.328723
Population	480
Density	18.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	93280, 91762
Area Code	661, 818, 747
County Seat	Bakersfield

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About Pond, California

Pond is a locality in Kern County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 18.0 people per km². Pond is located at 35.7177°N, 119.3287°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 93280, 91762.

Pond exists as a stark, sun-bleached expanse defined by the vast, flat agriculture of the Central Valley. It lies 5.8 miles southwest of Delano, CA (from Delano, CA: bearing 232°T), and is situated 8.6 miles north of Wasco. The sky here possesses an immense, pale clarity, stretching over an horizon where the distant Sierra Nevada appears as nothing more than a faint, jagged bruise against the blue. Earth in Pond is dry and industrious, patterned by the precise geometry of irrigation and the seasonal turning of soil. Poso Creek marks the nearby terrain with a thin, winding ribbon of riparian resilience, while the stillness of Lake Woollomes remains a quiet anchor for the local landscape eight miles away. During the heat of the afternoon, the air shimmers with a dry, kinetic energy, turning the golden grasses into brittle filaments that rattle against the stillness of the fields.

Pond functions as a quiet node of commerce and labor, where the rhythm of the day is dictated by the cultivation of the land and the steady passage of heavy transit along the arterial roads. History here is written in the utilitarian architecture of warehouses and the endurance of family-run farms that have held the soil for generations. Leisure finds a modest outlet at Soccer Park, where the dust of the valley floor settles on cleats and the shouts of players carry through the heavy, heat-drenched air. There is a singular beauty in the way the light lingers at dusk, turning the gray-green foliage of the orchards into silhouette, a reminder that Pond remains a place of deep, silent work, indifferent to the movement of the wider world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Soccer Park (Local Recreation) — 4.3 mi, 067° NE
Allensworth Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 4.4 mi, 353° N
Delano Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 5.5 mi, 063° NE
Delano Heritage Park (Local Park) — 5.7 mi, 061° NE
Heritage Park Museum (Museum) — 5.8 mi, 059° NE
McFarland Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 6.4 mi, 118° SE
Charlotte Chichester Auditorium (Theatre) — 6.4 mi, 051° NE
Semitropic Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 7.2 mi, 262° W
Pixley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 12.0 mi, 359° N · 15k acres
Kern National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.1 mi, 270° W · 22k acres
Depot Museum (Museum) — 14.9 mi, 169° S
Tulare Basin Wildlife Management Area (National Conservation Area) — 15.2 mi, 285° W · 483 acres
Shafter Ford Theater (Theatre) — 15.6 mi, 166° S
Site of the Flight of the Gossamer Condor (Monument) — 17.2 mi, 151° SE
Checkpoint (Attraction) — 22.6 mi, 110° E
North Beardsley Skatepark (Public Artwork) — 26.5 mi, 142° SE
Woody Rd (Attraction) — 27.2 mi, 092° E
Kern County Museum Historical Reference Library (Museum) — 28.4 mi, 142° SE
Kern County Museum and Pioneer Village (Museum) — 28.4 mi, 142° SE
Kern County World War II Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 29.0 mi, 145° SE
Memorial Stadium (Stadium) — 29.5 mi, 137° SE
Preston's Pride (Attraction) — 30.1 mi, 360° N
Valley Plaza Stadium (Cinema) — 31.1 mi, 148° SE
California Living Museum (Museum) — 31.7 mi, 128° SE
Success Dam Vista Point (Viewpoint) — 33.5 mi, 044° NE
Sequoia National Forest (National Forest) — 34.3 mi, 120° SE · 1.1M acres
Galaxy Theatres (Cinema) — 35.3 mi, 359° N
Giant Sequoia National Monument (National Monument) — 37.2 mi, 077° E · 353k acres
Carrizo Plain National Monument (National Monument) — 37.9 mi, 217° SW · 247k acres
Sequoia National Park (National Park) — 51.3 mi, 037° NE · 407k acres

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