Explore Vernon, 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 Vernon, 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 Vernon.
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 | Vernon |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Los Angeles County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 34.001123 |
| Longitude | -118.210869 |
| Population | 222 |
| Density | 17.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 90058 |
| Area Code | 213, 323 |
| County Seat | Los Angeles |
| School District | Los Angeles Unified School District |
Vernon occupies a dense, industrial expanse within the Los Angeles Basin, defined by a landscape of hard angles and heavy infrastructure. It lies 1.6 miles north of Huntington Park, CA (from Huntington Park, CA: bearing 349°T), and is situated 3.4 miles south-southeast of Los Angeles. The terrain remains largely flat, a functional plain where the gray, concrete-channeled Los Angeles River cuts a steady path just a mile away, threading through the machinery of the region. On clear days, the distant San Gabriel Mountains rise as a jagged, pale silhouette against the horizon, providing a silent backdrop to the relentless motion of freight and labor. The light here has a sharp, industrial clarity, catching the edges of corrugated steel warehouses and reflecting off the asphalt in a way that makes the afternoon sun feel remarkably immediate and unyielding.
Vernon was established with a singular focus on commerce, evolving into a powerhouse of manufacturing and food processing that anchors the regional economy. While the quietude of the Fred Roberts Recreation Center offers a small, deliberate reprieve from the surrounding intensity, the pulse of the district remains tied to the constant hum of trucks and the movement of goods. History in Vernon is written in the architecture of its sprawling plants and the sheer utility of its layout, which prioritizes the movement of capital over residential sprawl. Life here moves with the deliberate, heavy rhythm of industry, a stark and authentic expression of a place that exists to produce, far removed from the softer, more ornamental landscapes found further toward the interior.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Vernon, California. Coordinates: 34.001123, -118.210869. 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 Vernon includes the ZIP code (90058), telephone area code (213, 323), county seat of Los Angeles County (Los Angeles), and school district assignment (Los Angeles Unified 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. |