Explore Gooding, Idaho, 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 Gooding, Idaho. 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 Idaho 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 Gooding.
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 | Gooding |
| State | Idaho (ID) |
| County | Gooding County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Boise) |
| Latitude | 42.938792 |
| Longitude | -114.713108 |
| Population | 3,707 |
| Density | 942.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 83330 |
| Area Code | 208 |
| County Seat | Gooding |
| School District | Gooding Joint School District 231 |
Gooding stretches across the high, arid expanse of the Idaho plains, defined by the steady, unyielding presence of the Little Wood River as it carves a path through the sagebrush and dry earth. It lies 17.8 miles north-northwest of Jerome, ID (from Jerome, ID: bearing 326°T), and is situated 11.3 miles north of Wendell. The horizon is punctuated by the solitary silhouette of Gooding Butte, a volcanic sentinel rising from the flatlands that catch the hard, unfiltered clarity of the desert sun. At the center of the local landscape, West Park offers a quiet contrast to the surrounding scrub, providing a small, cultivated patch of green where the air feels thin and sharp, carrying the faint, dusty scent of high-desert bunchgrass. In the distance, the earth shifts toward the deeper, more dramatic fissures of Malad Gorge, while the irrigation lines that spider-web across the fields speak to a landscape that relies entirely on the disciplined channeling of water to survive.
Agriculture dictates the rhythm of life in Gooding, where the legacy of early homesteaders lingers in the irrigation canals and the vast, geometric patterns of the surrounding fields. The economy remains anchored to the soil, with the daily movement of farm equipment and the seasonal cycle of harvest serving as the primary clock for those who live and work here. While Bliss Reservoir sits quietly thirteen miles away, the lifeblood of the locality remains the river, a constant companion that has shaped the settlement’s steady, pragmatic character. The town maintains a measured pace, a place where the social fabric is reinforced by the shared demands of a rural climate and the quiet endurance required to thrive in a region defined by its wide, open spaces and the vast, unblinking sky.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Gooding, Idaho. Coordinates: 42.938792, -114.713108. 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 Gooding includes the ZIP code (83330), telephone area code (208), county seat of Gooding County (Gooding), and school district assignment (Gooding Joint School District 231).
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. |