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Valley Home California Map

Explore Valley Home, 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 Home, California

How to Use This Valley Home, California Map

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

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.

CityValley Home
StateCalifornia (CA)
CountyStanislaus County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezonePacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)
Latitude37.828816
Longitude-120.912157
Population284
Density95.4 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Code95361
Area Code408, 669
County SeatModesto
School DistrictValley Home Joint Elementary School District

About Valley Home, California

Valley Home is a locality in Stanislaus County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 284. The population density is 95.4 people per km². Valley Home is located at 37.8288°N, 120.9122°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 95361.

Valley Home asserts itself as a quiet expanse of agricultural ambition, defined by the persistent, seasonal pulse of Lone Tree Creek as it carves a path through the flat, sun-bleached terrain. It lies 5.6 miles northwest of Oakdale, CA (from Oakdale, CA: bearing 320°T), and is situated 6.5 miles north of Riverbank. The landscape here is one of wide, open horizons where the sky claims more territory than the earth, and the light at dusk turns the dry grasses into a shimmering, pale gold. Only sixty-four miles away, the Coast Ranges rise like a serrated, violet bruise against the western horizon, providing a distant backdrop to the fertile, low-lying plains. Just two miles to the north, the waters of Woodward Reservoir catch the heavy heat of the afternoon, acting as a mirror for the cloudless, intense blue of the interior sky.

Valley Home survives on the rhythm of the harvest, its economy deeply rooted in the soil that has supported generations of farming and orchard work. The proximity of Woodward Reservoir County Park offers a rare public reprieve from the relentless sun, providing a space where the stillness of the land is broken only by the movement of local wildlife. Life in Valley Home moves with the deliberate pace of a place that understands the necessity of water and the long, laborious cycles of the Central Valley. Beyond the reach of the distant mountains, the air remains dry and clear, holding the scent of dust and ripening crops, creating a distinct, grounded atmosphere that defines the daily experience of those who work these fields.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Woodward Reservoir County Park (Local Park) — 2.2 mi, 053° NE
  • The Horseless Carriage Garage (Museum) — 4.9 mi, 242° SW
  • Caboose train monument (Monument) — 5.0 mi, 241° SW
  • Escalon First Fire Station Monument (Monument) — 5.0 mi, 242° SW
  • Langworth Town Site (Monument) — 5.2 mi, 171° S
  • Unknown Park (Local Park) — 5.4 mi, 234° SW
  • The Cowboy Museum (Museum) — 5.6 mi, 140° SE
  • Stanley Wakefield Wilderness Area (Local Conservation Area) — 5.8 mi, 117° SE
  • Oakdale Golf & Country Club (Local Recreation) — 5.9 mi, 119° SE
  • Valley Oak Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 6.5 mi, 117° SE
  • Riverbank Historical Museum (Museum) — 6.5 mi, 192° S
  • Galaxy Theater (Cinema) — 6.9 mi, 198° S
  • Clarence Smit Museum (Museum) — 12.6 mi, 241° SW
  • Paperboy Statue (Public Artwork) — 13.6 mi, 199° S
  • McHenry Museum (Museum) — 13.6 mi, 199° S
  • Mistlin Gallery (Gallery) — 13.8 mi, 200° S
  • Brenden Modesto 18 (Cinema) — 13.9 mi, 201° S
  • San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.8 mi, 240° SW · 15k acres
  • Caswell Memorial State Park (State Park) — 16.9 mi, 239° SW
  • University Art Gallery (Gallery) — 21.3 mi, 172° S
  • Eastwood Ravine Trestle Bridge (Historic Ruins) — 21.5 mi, 086° E
  • Turlock Lake State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 22.0 mi, 130° SE
  • Christmas Tree Lane (Attraction) — 22.0 mi, 169° S
  • Bob Hope Theatre (Theatre) — 22.2 mi, 293° NW
  • Stockton (Attraction) — 22.4 mi, 293° NW
  • Turlock Community Theater (Theatre) — 23.2 mi, 169° S
  • Stanislaus National Forest (National Forest) — 33.0 mi, 058° NE · 901k acres
  • San Luis National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 36.0 mi, 182° S · 36k acres
  • Eldorado National Forest (National Forest) — 48.5 mi, 028° NE · 703k acres
  • Yosemite National Park (National Park) — 56.2 mi, 085° E · 743k acres

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About This Valley Home Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Valley Home, California. Coordinates: 37.828816, -120.912157. 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 Valley Home includes the ZIP code (95361), telephone area code (408, 669), county seat of Stanislaus County (Modesto), and school district assignment (Valley Home Joint Elementary 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.