Explore Spring Valley, 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 Spring Valley, 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 Spring Valley.
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 | Spring Valley |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | El Dorado County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 32.729948 |
| Longitude | -116.976401 |
| Population | 30,998 |
| Density | 1630.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 95726, 91977 |
| Area Code | 530, 949 |
| County Seat | Placerville |
| School District | Grossmont Union High School District |
Spring Valley occupies a rugged expanse of terrain where the golden grasses of late summer surrender to the encroaching shadows of deep, timbered slopes. It lies 15.0 miles east-northeast of Placerville, CA (from Placerville, CA: bearing 77°T), and is situated 3.4 miles east-northeast of Pollock Pines. The landscape is defined by the steep, jagged contours of Grays Canyon, which carves a path through the earth only a mile away, funneling the dry afternoon heat across the ridges. A mile from the center, Soldier Creek traces a thin, seasonal line through the dust, its movement sluggish and quiet against the parched soil. Beyond the immediate perimeter, the dense, shadowed canopy of Eldorado National Forest envelops the territory, while the distant, snow-dusted peaks of the Sierra Nevada loom on the horizon like a pale, serrated blade. Three miles away, the waters of Jenkinson Lake remain a static, glassy presence, reflecting the harsh clarity of the inland sky.
Spring Valley carries the weight of a frontier history, having evolved from a rugged outpost into a place defined by the quiet labor of those who work the land and the surrounding woods. Economic life remains tethered to the rhythm of the seasons, with the timber industry and the management of nearby tracts like Blodgett Experimental Forest providing a steady, if solitary, heartbeat. Residents often head toward the Big Hill Trail when the heat relents, seeking the scent of pine and the cooler air that lingers under the boughs. Life here moves with a deliberate, unadorned pace, far removed from the frantic pulse of the lowlands. The air possesses a sharpness that comes from living at a remove from the world, a clarity that renders the transition from high noon to dusk a stark, beautiful event of shifting light and cooling stone.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Spring Valley, California. Coordinates: 32.729948, -116.976401. 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 Spring Valley includes the ZIP code (95726, 91977), telephone area code (530, 949), county seat of El Dorado County (Placerville), and school district assignment (Grossmont Union High 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 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. |