Explore Walker, 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 Walker, 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 Walker.
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 | Walker |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Siskiyou County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 38.518502 |
| Longitude | -119.473051 |
| Population | 704 |
| Density | 22.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 90201, 90270, 96050, 96107 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| County Seat | Yreka |
| School District | Eastern Sierra Unified School District |
Walker sits upon a rugged terrain where the Little Humbug Creek cuts a persistent, winding path through the earth, defining the very contours of the land. It lies 25.8 miles south-southwest of Ashland, OR (from Ashland, OR: bearing 195°T), and is situated 12.6 miles west-northwest of Yreka. The air here carries a crisp, arid clarity, sharpening the outlines of the nearby Smith Gulch as the sun begins its slow descent toward the horizon. To the distant west, the jagged silhouettes of the Klamath Mountains rise against the darkening sky, while the immediate landscape remains defined by the quiet endurance of scrub and stone. Walker exists in a state of perpetual stillness, where the light at dusk settles over the dry grasses in long, amber ribbons that seem to hold the heat of the day in suspension.
History in Walker remains tethered to the hardscrabble labor of those who first parsed the soil and navigated the local topography. Economic life finds its rhythm in the surrounding tracts of land, where the presence of the Klamath, California Wild and Scenic River provides a corridor of protected wildness that shapes the local character. Travelers seeking a more intimate engagement with the wilderness often find their way to the Vesa Creek Trail, a route that offers passage through a terrain long marked by the quiet, industrial legacy of the region. Those looking for the stillness of water might look toward Scott Bar Pond, though the true heartbeat of the region is found in the deep, resonant silence of the land itself, far removed from the clamor of the modern world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Walker, California. Coordinates: 38.518502, -119.473051. 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 Walker includes the ZIP code (90201, 90270, 96050), telephone area code (530), county seat of Siskiyou County (Yreka), and school district assignment (Eastern Sierra 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. |