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Taft Heights California Map

Explore Taft Heights, 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 Taft Heights, California

How to Use This Taft Heights, California Map

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

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

Latitude	35.13469
Longitude	-119.47262
Population	1,999
Density	2607.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	93268
Area Code	661
County Seat	Bakersfield
School District	Taft City School District

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About Taft Heights, California

Taft Heights is a locality in Kern County, California, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,999. The population density is 2607.5 people per km². Taft Heights is located at 35.1347°N, 119.4726°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 93268.

Taft Heights emerges from the parched earth of the San Joaquin Valley as a persistent outpost defined by the stark, unrelenting clarity of the high desert sun. It lies 25.2 miles southwest of Rosedale, CA (from Rosedale, CA: bearing 227°T), and is situated 1.1 miles west-southwest of Taft. The landscape surrounding Taft Heights is characterized by dry, scrub-dusted plains and the rugged, sun-bleached contours of Twentyone Canyon, which carves a deep, shadow-filled crease into the terrain just a few miles away. While the distant, snow-capped peaks of the Sierra Nevada remain merely a faint, ethereal suggestion on the horizon, the immediate ground is dominated by the rhythmic hum of oil-field machinery and the scent of sagebrush carried on a dry, restless wind. Sandy Creek meanders through the arid expanse nearby, its bed often reflecting the pale, dusty hues of a land that measures its seasons by the intensity of the heat rather than the turn of the leaves.

Economic life in Taft Heights remains tethered to the deep, subterranean pulse of the petroleum industry, a legacy that has shaped the town’s architecture and its rugged, utilitarian character since the early days of extraction. The residents find a rare, quiet respite at the Taft Community Center and Skate Park, where the concrete bowls offer a modern contrast to the ancient, weathered geology of the region. Life here moves with a deliberate, tempered pace, far removed from the frantic energy of metropolitan centers, favoring the slow accumulation of days under a vast, cloudless sky. Even in the heat of midday, there is a distinct beauty in how the light catches the metallic glint of pumps against the muted, ochre-colored earth, revealing a place that remains stubbornly, authentically itself amidst the vastness of the interior.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Taft Community Center and Skate Park (Local Recreation) — 0.7 mi, 022° N
Civic Center Park (Local Park) — 1.4 mi, 075° E
Jameson #17 (Attraction) — 1.4 mi, 094° E
Ethel D. Oil Tool & Supply House (Attraction) — 1.4 mi, 096° E
Oil Patch Fire House (Attraction) — 1.4 mi, 096° E
Ford City Park (Local Park) — 1.5 mi, 028° NE
Franklin Field (Local Recreation) — 1.8 mi, 051° NE
Lokern-Buena Vista Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 3.2 mi, 349° N
Carrizo Plain National Monument (National Monument) — 4.4 mi, 206° SW · 247k acres
Lakeview Gusher #1 (Monument) — 5.0 mi, 127° SE
Carrizo Plains Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 8.9 mi, 265° W
Szent András-törésvonal (San Andreas) (Attraction) — 9.8 mi, 261° W
Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 11.7 mi, 172° S · 30k acres
Caliente Mountain Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 15.0 mi, 245° SW · 18k acres
Los Padres National Forest (National Forest) — 16.2 mi, 176° S · 1.8M acres
Wallace Creek (Monument) — 22.2 mi, 295° NW
Chumash Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 22.6 mi, 157° SE · 38k acres
Soda Lake Overlook (Viewpoint) — 25.6 mi, 287° W
San Rafael Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 26.2 mi, 212° SW · 191k acres
Shafter Ford Theater (Theatre) — 27.9 mi, 025° NE
Depot Museum (Museum) — 27.9 mi, 023° NE
Valley Plaza Stadium (Cinema) — 28.2 mi, 060° NE
Kern County World War II Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 29.7 mi, 056° NE
San Emigdio Plantation (Nature Reserve) — 29.8 mi, 133° SE
Bakersfield Civic Auditorium (Theatre) — 30.7 mi, 058° NE
Sisquoc Condor Sanctuary (Nature Reserve) — 30.9 mi, 209° SW
Father Francisco Garces (Public Artwork) — 31.0 mi, 056° NE
Kern County Museum and Pioneer Village (Museum) — 31.2 mi, 055° NE
Kern County Museum Historical Reference Library (Museum) — 31.2 mi, 055° NE
Memorial Stadium (Stadium) — 34.1 mi, 056° NE

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