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Tomales California Map

Explore Tomales, 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 Tomales, California

How to Use This Tomales, California Map

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

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	Tomales
State	California (CA)
County	Marin County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	38.246307
Longitude	-122.905552
Population	187
Density	217.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	94971
Area Code	510
County Seat	San Rafael
School District	Shoreline Unified School District

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About Tomales, California

Tomales is a locality in Marin County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 187. The population density is 217.5 people per km². Tomales is located at 38.2463°N, 122.9056°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 94971.

Tomales occupies a landscape defined by the persistent, rhythmic pulse of Keys Creek as it winds through the verdant, grass-covered terrain that slopes toward the Pacific Ocean. It lies 12.8 miles west-southwest of Rohnert Park, CA (from Rohnert Park, CA: bearing 240°T), and is situated 16.9 miles southwest of Santa Rosa. The air here holds a heavy, salt-sweet moisture, often cooling under the weight of a thick fog that rolls in from the coast to dampen the golden, tinder-dry grasses of late summer. While the Coast Ranges remain a distant, hazy silhouette against the horizon, the immediate environment is intimate and tactile, marked by the sharp, clean scent of earth and the quiet persistence of the tide. Residents often note how the light at dusk bleeds a bruised violet across the fields, casting long, lean shadows that seem to stretch from the nearby Chileno Valley all the way to the jagged edges of the shoreline.

History in Tomales is etched into the weathered wood of its storefronts and the stubborn, agricultural backbone of the local economy, which remains tethered to the land and the surrounding pastures. Generations have organized their lives around the cycles of dairy and coastal harvest, maintaining a pace that favors deliberate action over the frantic urgency found elsewhere. Visitors occasionally congregate at the Keys Creek Fishing Access to witness the quiet intersection of water and wild space, or they venture toward the Tomales Point Trail to catch sight of the distant, mist-shrouded expanse of Hog Island. Even as the modern world intrudes, Tomales persists as a place where the seasons dictate the labor of the day, and the slow, steady transformation of the landscape remains the most significant event of the year.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Keys Creek Fishing Access (State Recreation Area) — 1.0 mi, 204° SW
Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (Marine Protected Area) — 1.4 mi, 206° SW
Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Marine Protected Area) — 1.9 mi, 208° SW
Elephant Rock (Viewpoint) — 2.1 mi, 276° W
Captain Dillon (Public Artwork) — 3.3 mi, 275° W
California Coastal National Monument (National Monument) — 3.5 mi, 279° W · 8,946 acres
Point Reyes National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 3.7 mi, 204° SW · 135k acres
Phillip Burton Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 3.8 mi, 217° SW · 33k acres
Tomales Bay State Park (State Park) — 4.7 mi, 181° S
Tule Elk Reserve, Pierce Pt., Pt. Reyes NS (Attraction) — 4.8 mi, 212° SW
Estero Americano Coast Reserve (Conservation Area) — 6.1 mi, 308° NW
CPO Academy Pergola (Monument) — 6.2 mi, 088° E
CPO Academy 1.5 mile turnaround (Monument) — 6.7 mi, 086° E
Church of SaintTeresa ofAvila (Monument) — 7.8 mi, 332° NW
Duckworth Family Farm (Attraction) — 8.5 mi, 036° NE
Sonoma Coast State Park (State Park) — 8.8 mi, 295° NW
Soulajule Reservoir (Local Recreation) — 8.9 mi, 135° SE
Whale Jaw Bone (Attraction) — 9.2 mi, 307° NW
Whaling Artifacts (Attraction) — 9.4 mi, 307° NW
Meredith Pier Public Art Project (Gallery) — 9.5 mi, 307° NW
Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery (Gallery) — 10.0 mi, 310° NW
The Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History (Museum) — 10.7 mi, 165° S
Sebastopol Center for the Arts (Arts Centre) — 11.5 mi, 022° N
Occidental Center For the Arts (Arts Centre) — 11.6 mi, 348° N
Retrospect (Gallery) — 11.7 mi, 022° N
Cinnabar Theater (Theatre) — 13.3 mi, 086° E
Bohemia Ecological Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 14.2 mi, 344° N
Mcnear's Mystic Theatre (Theatre) — 14.4 mi, 093° E
San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.9 mi, 113° SE · 43k acres
Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument (National Monument) — 38.4 mi, 054° NE · 598k acres

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