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Ripley California Map

Explore Ripley, 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 Ripley, California

How to Use This Ripley, California Map

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

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

Latitude	33.525304
Longitude	-114.656068
Population	538
Density	122.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	92225
Area Code	714
County Seat	Riverside
School District	Palo Verde Unified School District

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About Ripley, California

Ripley is a locality in Riverside County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 538. The population density is 122.1 people per km². Ripley is located at 33.5253°N, 114.6561°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 92225.

Ripley emerges from the arid expanse as a quiet collection of structures held fast against the relentless intensity of the sun. It lies 6.8 miles south-southwest of Blythe, CA (from Blythe, CA: bearing 210°T), and is situated 23.0 miles southwest of Colorado River Indian Reservation. The landscape around Ripley is defined by the expansive, sun-bleached reaches of the Chuckwalla Valley, where the earth hums with a dry, kinetic energy under a sky that seems to stretch infinitely in every direction. To the north, the jagged silhouette of Black Rock rises against the horizon, a solitary sentinel presiding over the flat, baked plains that characterize the region. A mile away, the Township Drain cuts a modest, purposeful path through the dust, its presence a subtle reminder of the necessity of irrigation in a land that rarely sees rain. Beyond the immediate perimeter, the terrain offers little shelter, shifting instead into the stark, open vistas that define this inland basin, where the light at dusk turns the ground into a bruised, shifting palette of violet and ochre.

Agriculture remains the singular, enduring pulse of the local economy, with fields that demand constant vigilance and labor to extract life from the soil. The nearby State Trust Land offers a vast, protected buffer of desert scrub, preserving the raw, unadorned character of the environment that has shaped the lives of those who work the land here. While Walker Lake lies twenty-two miles away, its existence is a distant concept in a life governed by the immediate demands of the harvest and the maintenance of the irrigation networks. History in this region is measured not in grand monuments, but in the persistence of the irrigation ditches and the resilience of the crops that manage to thrive despite the heat. The atmosphere of Ripley is one of deliberate stillness, where the rhythm of the day is dictated by the slow, inevitable movement of the sun across a landscape that asks for little and yields only to those who understand the language of the desert.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State Trust Land (State Resource Management Area) — 4.1 mi, 125° SE
Mule Mccoy Linkage Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 5.6 mi, 263° W
Mule Mountains Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 6.4 mi, 273° W
Port Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 6.8 mi, 030° NE
Palo Verde Historical Museum (Museum) — 6.9 mi, 030° NE
Cibola Valley Conservation and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.7 mi, 183° S
Palo Verde Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 7.9 mi, 004° N
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 9.6 mi, 002° N
Cibola National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 10.4 mi, 185° S · 31k acres
Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 12.3 mi, 210° SW · 42k acres
Big Maria Mountains Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 14.0 mi, 016° N · 48k acres
Blythe Intaglios (Historic Ruins) — 20.2 mi, 020° N
T Rocks (Attraction) — 25.6 mi, 068° E
Hi Jolly Monument (Monument) — 26.0 mi, 068° E
Kofa National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.3 mi, 090° E · 1.3M acres
Spiral Labyrinth (Attraction) — 29.7 mi, 111° E
Scadden House (Historic Ruins) — 33.0 mi, 076° E
Donald Duck Overlook (Viewpoint) — 34.1 mi, 179° S
Natural Arch (Attraction) — 34.2 mi, 107° E
1930's Colorado River Work Boat (Attraction) — 34.8 mi, 176° S
Ampitheater (Theatre) — 34.8 mi, 176° S
Poston Memorial Monument (Monument) — 35.1 mi, 025° NE
Joshua Tree National Park (National Park) — 40.8 mi, 301° NW · 784k acres
Camp Coxcomb (Monument) — 43.1 mi, 308° NW
Mojave Trails National Monument (National Monument) — 43.8 mi, 326° NW · 1.8M acres
Bouse Museum (Museum) — 46.9 mi, 053° NE
East Jesus (Public Artwork) — 50.1 mi, 249° W
Bureau of Reclamation (Museum) — 55.2 mi, 178° S
Yuma Territory Live Steamers (Museum) — 55.4 mi, 177° S
Salton Sea History Museum & Visitor Center (Museum) — 73.8 mi, 270° W

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