Explore Santa Rita Park, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Santa Rita Park, 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 Santa Rita Park.
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 | Santa Rita Park |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Merced County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 37.047446 |
| Longitude | -120.595185 |
| Population | 2,400 |
| Density | 280.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 93620, 93661, 95341 |
| Area Code | 760, 408, 669 |
| County Seat | Merced |
Santa Rita Park endures as a quiet expanse where the dry, golden grasses of the plains meet the engineered precision of the Temple Santa Rita Canal. It lies 14.1 miles east of Los Banos, CA (from Los Banos, CA: bearing 93°T), and is situated 4.6 miles north-northeast of Dos Palos. The landscape here stretches out in a flat, sun-bleached patience, marked by the occasional shadow of a solitary oak and the distant, hazy silhouette of the Coast Ranges that rim the horizon eighty-three miles away. In the heat of the afternoon, the air shimmers with a dry, parched intensity that smells of dust and ripening earth, while the water in the nearby canal provides a singular, unwavering line of dark reflection through the fields. Beyond the immediate reach of the park’s boundaries, the terrain remains open and unassuming, reflecting a climate that favors long, rainless summers and a luminous, stark clarity of light that makes every fence line and utility pole stand out in high relief.
Economic life in Santa Rita Park remains tethered to the rhythmic cycles of the surrounding agricultural expanse, where the seasonal labor of the soil dictates the pace of the day. This land carries the imprint of generations who worked the valley floor, turning the earth toward the production of crops that thrive under the intense, unrelenting sun. Residents often look toward O'Bannion County Park, just four miles away, for a change in scenery, though the primary character of the locality is defined by its deep connection to the regional water infrastructure and the steady, industrious nature of its inhabitants. Life here unfolds with a predictable, grounded gravity, far from the influence of the distant coastline, favoring a stillness that persists even as the shadows lengthen across the irrigation ditches and the sky transitions into the deep, bruised violets of a high-plains dusk.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Santa Rita Park, California. Coordinates: 37.047446, -120.595185. 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 Santa Rita Park includes the ZIP code (93620, 93661, 95341), telephone area code (760, 408, 669), county seat of Merced County (Merced), and school district assignment.
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 generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |