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Trona California Map

Explore Trona, 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 Trona, California

How to Use This Trona, California Map

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

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	Trona
State	California (CA)
County	San Bernardino County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	35.815821
Longitude	-117.347348
Population	11
Density	0.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	93562, 93592, 92328
Area Code	760, 909
County Seat	San Bernardino
School District	Trona Joint Unified School District

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About Trona, California

Trona is a locality in San Bernardino County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 11. The population density is 0.5 people per km². Trona is located at 35.8158°N, 117.3473°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 93562, 93592, 92328.

Trona occupies a stark, sun-bleached expanse where the horizon flattens into a pale, cracked canvas of ancient mineral deposits. It lies 19.3 miles east-northeast of Ridgecrest, CA (from Ridgecrest, CA: bearing 60°T), and is situated 23.5 miles east-northeast of China Lake Acres. The landscape surrounding Trona is defined by an austere silence, where the light at dusk turns the jagged, arid earth into shades of bruised violet and copper, casting long shadows across the basin floor. Just four miles to the west, the rugged geometry of Indian Joe Canyon cuts into the terrain, while the vast, dry bed of Searles Lake sits three miles away, a silent witness to the evaporation of prehistoric waters. Beyond the immediate vicinity, the Mohave Ground Squirrel Area of Critical Environmental Concern preserves the fragile scrubland, and on the clearest of days, the faint, distant silhouette of the Sierra Nevada marks the edge of the world.

Industrial infrastructure remains the heartbeat of the local economy, as the extraction of chemicals from the dry lake bed has sustained Trona for generations. The air here holds the dry, sharp scent of processing plants, a reminder of the raw labor required to harvest the earth’s crust in such a remote corridor. While the nearby Sweetwater Wash remains dry for much of the year, its presence traces a path of potential movement through the desert, mirroring the quiet persistence of those who call this place home. Life here moves with the slow, deliberate pace of the desert, where the intensity of the midday heat dictates the rhythm of the day, leaving the evenings to cool under a sky so expansive it renders the machinery of industry small against the weight of the stars.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Great Falls Basin Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 1.3 mi, 307° NW
Great Falls Basin Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 1.4 mi, 308° NW · 7,977 acres
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 1.6 mi, 360° N
Mohave Ground Squirrel Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 1.7 mi, 216° SW
Indian Joe Spring Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 1.8 mi, 281° W
Argus Range Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 5.4 mi, 353° N · 67k acres
Turnout (Viewpoint) — 10.1 mi, 003° N
Death Valley National Park (National Park) — 13.0 mi, 096° E · 3.4M acres
Trona Pinnacles (Attraction) — 13.8 mi, 186° S
Barker Ranch (Historic Ruins) — 14.8 mi, 078° E
Myers Ranch (Historic Ruins) — 15.1 mi, 078° E
Panamint City (Monument) — 15.5 mi, 014° N
Ballarat (Attraction) — 17.4 mi, 023° NE
Clair Camp (Attraction) — 19.2 mi, 038° NE
Baker Ranch (Attraction) — 19.2 mi, 111° E
Naval Museum of Armament & Technology (Museum) — 19.9 mi, 236° SW
China Lake Museum (Museum) — 20.0 mi, 236° SW
Ridgecrest Cinema (Cinema) — 21.5 mi, 238° SW
Maturango Museum (Museum) — 22.2 mi, 235° SW
Petroglyphs on Flagstone (Public Artwork) — 22.3 mi, 234° SW
X-15 Memorial (Monument) — 30.8 mi, 208° SW
The Rand Desert Museum (Museum) — 35.4 mi, 209° SW
Walker's Pass (Monument) — 39.5 mi, 255° W
Sequoia National Forest (National Forest) — 39.6 mi, 250° W · 1.1M acres
Inyo National Forest (National Forest) — 40.0 mi, 295° NW · 2.0M acres
Goldstone Museum (Museum) — 46.8 mi, 139° SE
Screen 2 (Cinema) — 65.5 mi, 162° S

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