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Riverside California Map

Explore Riverside, 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 Riverside, California

How to Use This Riverside, California Map

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

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.

CityRiverside
StateCalifornia (CA)
CountyStanislaus County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezonePacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)
Latitude33.938143
Longitude-117.393168
Population314,998
Density1497.2 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Codes95822, 92506, 95354, 92508
Area Code408, 669, 909
County SeatModesto
School DistrictRiverside Unified School District

About Riverside, California

Riverside is a locality in Stanislaus County, California, United States. With a population of 314,998, Riverside is a major urban centre in California. The population density is 1497.2 people per km². Riverside is located at 33.9381°N, 117.3932°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. Riverside is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 95822, 92506, 95354.

Riverside expands across a sun-drenched basin where the heat of the afternoon settles into the dry, golden grass and the low-slung architecture of the valley floor. It lies 2.7 miles east of Modesto, CA (from Modesto, CA: bearing 92°T), and is situated 3.0 miles north of Ceres. The landscape maintains a quiet, inland stillness, far removed from the cooling influence of the distant Coast Ranges that rim the horizon like a jagged, violet hem. Nearby, the water of the Tuolumne River moves with a muted, steady persistence through the terrain, while the quiet surface of Naraghi Lake catches the sharp, unwavering glare of the midday sun. Within the local sprawl, Riverside Park offers a patch of maintained green, a place where the air hangs heavy with the scent of parched earth and the persistent, rhythmic hum of cicadas in the heat.

Agriculture and the legacy of the citrus trade define the structural memory of Riverside, anchoring its development in the transformation of arid plains into orderly, irrigation-fed rows. The economy has shifted over time, moving from the labor of the groves into a complex grid of academic institutions and regional commerce that keeps the pace of the day brisk and purposeful. Residents move between the older, shaded streets and the modern thoroughfares, their routines marked by the long, clear shadows of dusk that stretch across the concrete. There is a distinct, sharp clarity to the light here, a quality that illuminates the dust motes and the clean lines of the buildings, grounding Riverside in a reality that is both utilitarian and strangely luminous as the day begins to fade.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Villegas Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 221° SW
  • Shamel Park (Local Park) — 0.4 mi, 359° N
  • S/SGT Ysmael Villegas (Monument) — 0.4 mi, 221° SW
  • Chicago White Sox Redwood Tree (Monument) — 0.7 mi, 323° NW
  • Jessie C. Underwood (Monument) — 0.8 mi, 326° NW
  • Riverside (Public Artwork) — 1.1 mi, 348° N
  • Southern California Medical Museum (Museum) — 1.6 mi, 358° N
  • Pachappa Hill (Conservation Area) — 1.7 mi, 024° NE
  • Martha Mclean Anza Narrows (Attraction) — 2.8 mi, 311° NW
  • Arlington Heights Sports Park Picnic Area (Local Recreation) — 3.0 mi, 224° SW
  • Santa Ana River Wildlife Area (Local Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 309° NW
  • Ucr Arts (Museum) — 3.2 mi, 019° N
  • Camera Obscura (Attraction) — 3.2 mi, 020° N
  • Mission Inn Museum (Museum) — 3.3 mi, 020° N
  • Sycamore Canyon Wilderness Park (Local Conservation Area) — 3.3 mi, 094° E
  • Regency Theater- University Village (Cinema) — 4.2 mi, 050° NE
  • Sycamore Canyon Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 4.7 mi, 102° E
  • Petrified Redwood Log (Attraction) — 4.8 mi, 062° NE
  • Ghost Blasters (Attraction) — 4.8 mi, 240° SW
  • Chudzikowski Home Site (Historic Ruins) — 5.3 mi, 259° W
  • Jurupa Mountains Discovery Center (Arts Centre) — 6.2 mi, 329° NW
  • World Museum of Natural History (Museum) — 6.5 mi, 254° W
  • Hidden Valley Viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 6.6 mi, 284° W
  • Brandstater Gallery (Gallery) — 6.6 mi, 254° W
  • Hidden Valley Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 6.8 mi, 287° W
  • San Bernardino National Forest (National Forest) — 7.9 mi, 104° E · 683k acres
  • Cleveland National Forest (National Forest) — 12.3 mi, 213° SW · 426k acres
  • San Mateo Canyon Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 21.5 mi, 181° S · 40k acres
  • San Gabriel Mountains National Monument (National Monument) — 22.7 mi, 314° NW · 454k acres

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About This Riverside Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Riverside, California. Coordinates: 33.938143, -117.393168. 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 Riverside includes the ZIP code (95822, 92506, 95354), telephone area code (408, 669, 909), county seat of Stanislaus County (Modesto), and school district assignment (Riverside Unified School District).

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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.