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Smith Corner California Map

Explore Smith Corner, 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 Smith Corner, California

How to Use This Smith Corner, California Map

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

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

Latitude	35.478292
Longitude	-119.278721
Population	594
Density	1042.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	93263
Area Code	661
County Seat	Bakersfield
School District	Kern High School District

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About Smith Corner, California

Smith Corner is a locality in Kern County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 594. The population density is 1042.5 people per km². Smith Corner is located at 35.4783°N, 119.2787°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 93263.

Smith Corner emerges from the flat, parched expanse of the valley floor, where the soil holds the heat of the afternoon long after the sun has begun its descent. It lies 1.6 miles south-southwest of Shafter, CA (from Shafter, CA: bearing 194°T), and is situated 8.7 miles south-southeast of Wasco. The land stretches toward the horizon in a vast, golden tableau of dry grasses and stubborn oak, punctuated only by the occasional irrigation line that cuts through the dust. To the east, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Sierra Nevada serves as a faint reminder of the world beyond these plains, while the local geography is defined more intimately by the quiet presence of Rodriguez Park, a small sanctuary of greenery barely a mile away. The air here carries a weight of stillness, heavy with the scent of sun-baked earth and the dry, rasping breath of the wind as it moves through the sparse, resilient vegetation.

Agriculture dictates the slow, deliberate pulse of Smith Corner, a place where the economy is tethered to the cycles of the harvest and the seasonal flow of the Calloway Canal. History here is written in the furrows of the fields and the sturdy, unadorned architecture of the older storefronts that have weathered decades of summer glare. While the shimmering expanse of Lake Webb lies seventeen miles distant, the people of Smith Corner find their rhythm in the immediate, terrestrial demands of their craft, tending to the crops that define the character of the region. There is a profound honesty in this landscape, a clarity of light that reveals every detail of the passing day, from the long, deepening shadows at dusk to the sudden, cooling relief that settles over the fields when the stars finally pierce the dark.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Rodriguez Park (Local Park) — 1.0 mi, 354° N
Veteran's Park (Local Park) — 1.1 mi, 334° NW
Skate Park (Local Recreation) — 1.3 mi, 021° N
Activity Center (Local Recreation) — 1.4 mi, 021° N
Shafter Ford Theater (Theatre) — 1.8 mi, 036° NE
Depot Museum (Museum) — 1.9 mi, 002° N
Site of the Flight of the Gossamer Condor (Monument) — 5.7 mi, 075° E
Buttonwillow Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 6.0 mi, 245° SW
Lokern-Buena Vista Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 12.4 mi, 211° SW
Lokern Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 12.4 mi, 212° SW
McFarland Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 13.8 mi, 012° N
North Beardsley Skatepark (Public Artwork) — 14.1 mi, 108° E
Kern County World War II Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 15.5 mi, 118° SE
Kern County Museum Historical Reference Library (Museum) — 15.8 mi, 112° E
Kern County Museum and Pioneer Village (Museum) — 15.8 mi, 112° E
Bakersfield Civic Auditorium (Theatre) — 16.7 mi, 116° SE
Valley Plaza Stadium (Cinema) — 16.8 mi, 126° SE
Memorial Stadium (Stadium) — 18.1 mi, 106° E
Heritage Park Museum (Museum) — 19.7 mi, 006° N
Checkpoint (Attraction) — 20.5 mi, 064° NE
California Living Museum (Museum) — 22.3 mi, 098° E
Kern National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.6 mi, 314° NW · 22k acres
Jameson #17 (Attraction) — 25.7 mi, 202° S
Ethel D. Oil Tool & Supply House (Attraction) — 25.7 mi, 202° S
Oil Patch Fire House (Attraction) — 25.7 mi, 202° S
Sequoia National Forest (National Forest) — 27.0 mi, 091° E · 1.1M acres
Pixley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.7 mi, 355° N · 15k acres
Carrizo Plain National Monument (National Monument) — 29.1 mi, 212° SW · 247k acres
Soda Lake Overlook (Viewpoint) — 39.0 mi, 245° SW
Los Padres National Forest (National Forest) — 39.9 mi, 179° S · 1.8M acres

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