Explore Tuttle, 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 Tuttle, 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 Tuttle.
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 | Tuttle |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Merced County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 37.296052 |
| Longitude | -120.378797 |
| Population | 102 |
| Density | 22.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 95340 |
| Area Code | 408, 669 |
| County Seat | Merced |
| School District | Merced Union High School District |
Tuttle occupies a wide, sun-bleached expanse of the Central Valley where the horizon stretches flat and uncompromising under a heavy, Mediterranean sky. It lies 5.7 miles east of Merced, CA (from Merced, CA: bearing 94°T), and is situated 3.3 miles west of Planada. The landscape around Tuttle is defined by the steady, persistent presence of Bear Creek, which cuts a narrow, willow-lined path through the parched earth only a mile from the center. Beyond the immediate fields, the far-off silhouette of the Sierra Nevada rises like a jagged, violet wall against the eastern sky, grounding the vast openness of the plains. To the northwest, the deeper contours of Greaser Gulch disrupt the otherwise level terrain, while the quiet waters of Yosemite Lake provide a still, reflective reprieve from the heat just six miles away. The light here has a specific, weighted quality, turning the late afternoon dust into a fine, suspended gold that settles over the dry stalks of the surrounding agricultural tracts.
Tuttle grew from the necessity of the soil, its foundations built upon the rhythms of irrigation and the seasonal harvest that still dictates the pulse of the local economy. Visitors often find their way to the shaded pathways of Houlihan Park, an oasis of greenery that serves as a necessary contrast to the surrounding fields of wheat and orchard rows. The pace of life in Tuttle remains tethered to the slow cycles of these crops, with the work of the day ending as the heat finally breaks and the shadows lengthen across the gravel lots and quiet residential streets. There is a profound stillness in the way the local life organizes itself, moving with a deliberate, unadorned composure that reflects the harsh, honest clarity of the valley climate. Residents recognize the value in this endurance, maintaining a town character that favors the practical over the ornamental, finding a stark, singular beauty in the repetition of the seasons and the reliable drift of the wind across the plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tuttle, California. Coordinates: 37.296052, -120.378797. 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 Tuttle includes the ZIP code (95340), telephone area code (408, 669), county seat of Merced County (Merced), and school district assignment (Merced 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. |