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Randsburg California Map

Explore Randsburg, 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 Randsburg, California

How to Use This Randsburg, California Map

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

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

Latitude	35.368574
Longitude	-117.658116
Population	45
Density	9.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	93554
Area Code	760
County Seat	Bakersfield
School District	Sierra Sands Unified School District

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About Randsburg, California

Randsburg is a locality in Kern County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 45. The population density is 9.1 people per km². Randsburg is located at 35.3686°N, 117.6581°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 93554.

Randsburg asserts its presence as a stark, sun-bleached enclave carved into the high desert, where the earth is composed of fractured stone and vast, unyielding scrub. It lies 17.6 miles south of Ridgecrest, CA (from Ridgecrest, CA: bearing 178°T), and is situated 19.7 miles south-southeast of China Lake Acres. The landscape surrounding Randsburg offers a rugged austerity, defined by the Fremont-Kramer Area of Critical Environmental Concern, which stretches out in a mosaic of creosote and arid silence just a mile away. Dust devils dance in the heat haze above the dry expanse of Fiddler Gulch, while the distant, serrated silhouette of the Sierra Nevada remains a faint, cool promise against the horizon, far removed from the immediate, baked reality of the soil. Here, the air holds a singular, crisp clarity, sharpening the edges of every rusted corrugated roof and weathered timber post until they stand in high relief against the relentless, pale blue sky.

History pulses through the veins of the locality, echoing the fevered ambition of gold seekers who first fractured the silence of these hills to extract wealth from the quartz-rich veins beneath their boots. While the clamor of the nineteenth-century mining boom has long since faded into a quiet, eccentric persistence, the local economy remains tethered to the vestiges of that era, supported by a modest trade in antiques and the curiosity of travelers drawn to the preserved, fragile remnants of the frontier. Life in Randsburg moves with the deliberate pace of a place that has learned to wait, indifferent to the frantic rhythms of the modern world. Even the water, though distant, leaves its mark on the regional consciousness, with Teagle Wash serving as a reminder of the rare, seasonal surges that occasionally reshape the parched terrain, grounding the identity of the inhabitants in a landscape that demands both resilience and a quiet appreciation for the stark geometry of the desert.

Nearby Outdoor Places

The Rand Desert Museum (Museum) — 0.2 mi, 104° E
Fremont-Kramer Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 0.5 mi, 000° N
Western Rand Mountains Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 1.4 mi, 307° NW
Fremont Valley Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 000° N
Golden Valley Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 4.7 mi, 064° NE · 38k acres
X-15 Memorial (Monument) — 4.8 mi, 043° NE
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 5.5 mi, 004° N
El Paso Mountains Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 11.4 mi, 313° NW · 24k acres
Burro Schmidt Tunnel (Attraction) — 12.5 mi, 282° W
West Mojave Desert Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 12.7 mi, 141° SE
Red Rock Canyon State Park (State Park) — 13.5 mi, 271° W
Bickel Camp (Historic Ruins) — 13.7 mi, 290° W
Cudahy camp (Historic Ruins) — 15.4 mi, 281° W
Moment of Engagement (Public Artwork) — 17.4 mi, 357° N
Red cliffs trail (Attraction) — 18.0 mi, 269° W
Maturango Museum (Museum) — 18.1 mi, 358° N
Eastern Kern County Onyx Ranch State Vehicular Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 19.4 mi, 266° W
Ridgecrest Cinema (Cinema) — 19.4 mi, 358° N
F-4 Phantom II - NWC China Lake 1374 (Attraction) — 19.5 mi, 358° N
Plane (Attraction) — 19.6 mi, 360° N
China Lake Museum (Museum) — 19.8 mi, 003° N
Naval Museum of Armament & Technology (Museum) — 19.8 mi, 003° N
Josephine Stephens Bishop (Monument) — 19.9 mi, 257° W
Husky Monument (Monument) — 21.9 mi, 119° SE
Rio Tinto Borax Mine Visitor Center (Museum) — 23.5 mi, 184° S
Sequoia National Forest (National Forest) — 25.8 mi, 310° NW · 1.1M acres
Airplane graveyard viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 34.0 mi, 234° SW
Death Valley National Park (National Park) — 42.4 mi, 046° NE · 3.4M acres
Coy Burnett Stadium (Stadium) — 46.9 mi, 250° W

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