Red Corral California Map

About Red Corral, California

Red Corral is a locality in Amador County, California, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,687. The population density is 103.3 people per km². Red Corral is located at 38.4121°N, 120.6072°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 95665, 95666.

Red Corral occupies a rugged expanse where the earth rises in dry, ochre swells toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Sierra Nevada. It lies 22.5 miles south-southeast of Diamond Springs, CA (from Diamond Springs, CA: bearing 150°T), and is situated 5.1 miles west-southwest of Buckhorn. Sunlight here possesses a distinct, heavy clarity, bleaching the grasses to a brittle straw color and casting long, sharp shadows across the broken terrain of Valentine Gulch. A mile away, the South Branch Sutter Creek carves a narrow, serpentine path through the landscape, its seasonal flow carving deep into the bedrock while the thick, resinous air of Mount Zion State Forest drifts over the nearby ridges. The horizon remains vast and unencumbered, defined by the slow, tectonic patience of the land and the pervasive stillness that settles over the brush as the heat of the afternoon yields to a cooling, thin-aired twilight.

Red Corral preserves the quiet evidence of its origins as a working outpost, where the remnants of early prospecting and timber extraction still linger in the rusted hardware found half-buried in the soil. The local economy persists in a modest, deliberate fashion, far removed from the frantic pace of the state’s urban centers, relying instead on the slow stewardship of the woodland and the maintenance of the North Trail for those who traverse the high country. Life in Red Corral follows the rhythm of the seasons, marked by the sparse gathering of neighbors and the distant, muted movement of water through the North Fork Mokelumne River. Ten miles to the north, Little Reservoir provides a rare, static mirror to the sky, serving as a quiet anchor for a region that otherwise defines itself by the austere, enduring resilience of its inland hills.

About This Red Corral Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Red Corral, California. Coordinates: 38.4121, -120.6072. 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 Red Corral includes the ZIP code (95665, 95666), telephone area code (530), county seat of Amador County (Jackson), and school district assignment (Amador County Unified School District).

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.