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Valley Acres California Map

Explore Valley Acres, 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 Valley Acres, California

How to Use This Valley Acres, California Map

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

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

Latitude	35.206076
Longitude	-119.406783
Population	504
Density	47.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	93268
Area Code	661
County Seat	Bakersfield
School District	Taft City School District

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About Valley Acres, California

Valley Acres is a locality in Kern County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 504. The population density is 47.2 people per km². Valley Acres is located at 35.2061°N, 119.4068°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 93268.

Valley Acres occupies a sun-bleached expanse where the low-slung horizon is defined by the persistent, rhythmic flow of the Buena Vista Creek. It lies 19.2 miles southwest of Rosedale, CA (from Rosedale, CA: bearing 230°T), and is situated 5.2 miles north-northeast of Taft. The land here unfolds in a sequence of arid plains and sun-drenched dirt, a landscape that holds the heat of the afternoon with a heavy, golden intensity. Only a few miles away, the expansive basin of the Buena Vista Valley stretches out, its floor a testament to the patient accumulation of silt and time. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Sierra Nevada offer a jagged reminder of the earth’s tectonic ambition, while the immediate surroundings are defined by the quiet, scrub-dotted terrain of the Lokern-Buena Vista Area of Critical Environmental Concern, where the native flora clings to the desiccated earth with a fierce, quiet resilience.

Valley Acres serves as a quiet witness to the agricultural persistence of the region, its economy shaped by the seasonal pulse of crops that draw sustenance from the nearby watershed. The presence of Lake Webb, positioned just a short distance across the plains, provides a rare, shimmering contrast to the dry intensity of the surrounding fields. History here is written in the irrigation ditches and the steady, unpretentious work of those who cultivate the soil, transforming the dusty flats into a grid of productive rows. Life in Valley Acres moves in accordance with the shifting intensity of the sun, where the air often carries the scent of dry grass and turned earth, and the evenings settle over the landscape with a profound, cooling silence that marks the end of another day in the valley.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Lokern-Buena Vista Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 0.8 mi, 340° N
Franklin Field (Local Recreation) — 4.0 mi, 208° SW
A. W. Noon Park (Local Park) — 4.7 mi, 064° NE
Jameson #17 (Attraction) — 5.5 mi, 205° SW
Ethel D. Oil Tool & Supply House (Attraction) — 5.6 mi, 204° SW
Oil Patch Fire House (Attraction) — 5.6 mi, 204° SW
Buena Vista Aquatic Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 6.0 mi, 071° E
Tule Elk State Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 7.1 mi, 022° N
Lokern Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 7.3 mi, 002° N
Lakeview Gusher #1 (Monument) — 7.9 mi, 178° S
Carrizo Plain National Monument (National Monument) — 10.5 mi, 207° SW · 247k acres
Szent András-törésvonal (San Andreas) (Attraction) — 14.9 mi, 244° SW
Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 16.3 mi, 170° S · 30k acres
Caliente Mountain Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 20.6 mi, 237° SW · 18k acres
Los Padres National Forest (National Forest) — 21.1 mi, 181° S · 1.8M acres
Shafter Ford Theater (Theatre) — 21.9 mi, 022° N
Depot Museum (Museum) — 21.9 mi, 019° N
Valley Plaza Stadium (Cinema) — 22.7 mi, 067° NE
Site of the Flight of the Gossamer Condor (Monument) — 24.0 mi, 032° NE
Kern County World War II Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 24.0 mi, 061° NE
Bakersfield Civic Auditorium (Theatre) — 25.0 mi, 063° NE
Father Francisco Garces (Public Artwork) — 25.2 mi, 060° NE
Kern County Museum and Pioneer Village (Museum) — 25.4 mi, 059° NE
Kern County Museum Historical Reference Library (Museum) — 25.4 mi, 059° NE
Chumash Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 25.6 mi, 162° S · 38k acres
Memorial Stadium (Stadium) — 28.3 mi, 060° NE
Soda Lake Overlook (Viewpoint) — 28.3 mi, 275° W
Dick Smith Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 30.5 mi, 196° S · 71k acres
San Emigdio Plantation (Nature Reserve) — 31.1 mi, 144° SE
California Living Museum (Museum) — 33.3 mi, 062° NE

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