Explore Tres Pinos, 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 Tres Pinos, 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 Tres Pinos.
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 | Tres Pinos |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | San Benito County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 36.789957 |
| Longitude | -121.321043 |
| Population | 443 |
| Density | 47.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 95075 |
| Area Code | 408, 669 |
| County Seat | Hollister |
| School District | San Benito High School District |
Tres Pinos holds the quiet center of an open, sun-bleached landscape where the seasonal passage of Tres Pinos Creek marks the rhythm of the land. It lies 6.2 miles southeast of Hollister, CA (from Hollister, CA: bearing 134°T), and is situated 2.9 miles east-southeast of Ridgemark. The terrain here relies on the slow, deliberate work of water and wind, characterized by golden, tinder-dry grasses that blanket the earth as it slopes toward the nearby Arroyo Hondo. Beyond the immediate fields, the horizon is held by the distant silhouette of the Coast Ranges, which catch the violet bruises of dusk light long after the valley floor has surrendered to shadow. The air carries a scent of baked earth and dried brush, a stillness that seems to press against the skin during the long, heat-heavy afternoons when the sky stretches wide and pale above the parched oak savanna.
History in Tres Pinos remains anchored to the land’s utility, where the remnants of agricultural ambition define the local economy and the slow, steady pace of the day. A short mile away, the San Benito County Historical and Recreational Park serves as a repository for the area’s heritage, preserving a sense of the labor that once moved through these plains. Residents look toward the Paicines Reservoir when the cycle of drought demands a memory of water, acknowledging a landscape that has long been shaped by the scarcity of rain. Life here operates with a singular focus, untroubled by the urgency of more frantic locales, as the community sustains itself through the quiet cultivation of the soil and the maintenance of a tradition that values space, silence, and the persistent, unyielding character of the inland geography.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tres Pinos, California. Coordinates: 36.789957, -121.321043. 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 Tres Pinos includes the ZIP code (95075), telephone area code (408, 669), county seat of San Benito County (Hollister), and school district assignment (San Benito 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. |