Explore Westside, 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 Westside, 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 Westside.
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 | Westside |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Fresno County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 36.400507 |
| Longitude | -120.139036 |
| Population | 143 |
| Density | 24.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 93624 |
| Area Code | 760 |
| County Seat | Fresno |
| School District | Westside Elementary School District |
Westside endures as a vast, sun-drenched expanse where the horizon stretches flat and uncompromising against a sky of hard, brilliant blue. It lies 21.0 miles west-northwest of Lemoore, CA (from Lemoore, CA: bearing 289°T), and is situated 13.8 miles north of Huron. The terrain here is defined by the heavy, loamy stillness of the plains, a place where the earth seems to hold the heat of the day long after the shadows have lengthened into deep, violet pools. Six miles to the east, the Governor Edmund G Brown California Aqueduct draws a precise, concrete line through the dust, its movement hidden from view yet vital to the persistence of the landscape. Far to the east, the jagged, snow-dusted edges of the Sierra Nevada sometimes ghost into existence during the coldest, clearest dawns, serving as a distant reminder of the high country far beyond these arid reaches.
Westside exists as a quiet engine of agricultural industry, its daily pulse dictated by the seasonal labor of the fields and the steady, mechanical hum of irrigation. The Panoche/coalinga Area of Critical Environmental Concern lies eleven miles away, guarding a rugged, protected wilderness that contrasts sharply with the manicured rows of crops dominating the local floor. While Lake los Nietos remains fifteen miles to the north, the lifeblood of the economy relies on the man-made veins of water that transform the parched soil into a productive mosaic of color. Life in Westside moves with a deliberate, pragmatic rhythm, favoring the sturdy utility of the harvest over the vanity of decoration, yet there is a singular, stark beauty in the way the light catches the golden chaff blowing across the open fields at dusk.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Westside, California. Coordinates: 36.400507, -120.139036. 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 Westside includes the ZIP code (93624), telephone area code (760), county seat of Fresno County (Fresno), and school district assignment (Westside 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 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. |