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Searchlight Nevada Map

Explore Searchlight, Nevada, 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 Searchlight, Nevada

How to Use This Searchlight, Nevada Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Searchlight, Nevada. 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 Nevada 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 Searchlight.

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	Searchlight
State	Nevada (NV)
County	Clark County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	35.455431
Longitude	-114.920426
Population	445
Density	44.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	89046
Area Code	702, 725
County Seat	Las Vegas
School District	Clark County School District

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About Searchlight, Nevada

Searchlight is a locality in Clark County, Nevada, United States. It is a small community with a population of 445. The population density is 44.4 people per km². Searchlight is located at 35.4554°N, 114.9204°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 89046.

Searchlight sprawls across a high, sun-bleached plateau where the earth mirrors the pale, unrelenting clarity of the desert sky. It lies 35.8 miles south of Boulder City, NV (from Boulder City, NV: bearing 188°T), and is situated 29.6 miles northwest of Bullhead City. The landscape is defined by the rugged presence of the Rocky Mountains, which anchor the horizon in jagged, stony silhouettes that shift from violet to iron-gray as the sun retreats. Here, the air holds a dry, sharp stillness, broken only by the occasional wind that sweeps across the scrub-covered plains toward the distant, hidden course of Piute Wash. Within the quiet perimeter of Searchlight Town Park, the earth retains a primitive, elemental heat, offering a singular vantage point to witness the slow, rhythmic transition of light that turns the desert floor into a vast expanse of flickering copper and dust.

Gold veins once drew prospectors to the deep, silent shafts that honeycomb the ground beneath Searchlight, defining its endurance as a relic of the era when mining dictated the pulse of the frontier. While the fervor of the extraction industry has long since quieted, the economy now hums with the steady, modest commerce of travelers moving between the shadows of the hills and the distant, shimmering blue of Lake Mohave. The character of the place remains forged by this transition from boom-town ambition to the deliberate, solitary pace of high-desert life. In the clear, thin atmosphere, the remnants of wooden headframes and rusted machinery stand as silent witnesses to a history that values persistence over prosperity, keeping the spirit of the early pioneers woven into the stark, uncompromising geology of the region.

Nearby Outdoor Places

George Frederick Colton and the Duplex Mine (Monument) — 0.4 mi, 005° N
Searchlight Town Park (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 018° N
Piute/eldorado Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 0.8 mi, 187° S
Searchlight Community Center (Local Recreation) — 1.1 mi, 041° NE
152159 United States Navy P3a Orion Memorial (Monument) — 1.1 mi, 041° NE
Lake Mead National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 6.7 mi, 077° E · 1.3M acres
Nellis Wash Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 7.9 mi, 089° E · 17k acres
Cal - Nev - Ari (Monument) — 10.9 mi, 168° S
Castle Mountains National Monument (National Monument) — 11.2 mi, 213° SW · 21k acres
Mojave National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 11.4 mi, 208° SW · 1.5M acres
Mojave Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 11.4 mi, 208° SW · 784k acres
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 12.4 mi, 211° SW
Piute-Fenner Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 13.9 mi, 187° S
Mojave Trails National Monument (National Monument) — 14.0 mi, 186° S · 1.8M acres
State Trust Land (State Resource Management Area) — 16.7 mi, 079° E
Bridge Canyon Viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 17.6 mi, 142° SE
Cattle pen/ natural spring (Historic Ruins) — 17.7 mi, 319° NW
Cattle pen/natural spring (Historic Ruins) — 17.8 mi, 319° NW
Nipton (Attraction) — 19.7 mi, 272° W
Petroglyphs (Attraction) — 24.3 mi, 190° S
Ivanpah Lake (Attraction) — 27.9 mi, 284° W
Riverside Cinema 6-PLEX (Cinema) — 27.9 mi, 135° SE
Don Laughlin's Classic Car Collection - First Floor Showroom (Museum) — 27.9 mi, 135° SE
Don's Celebrity Theatre (Theatre) — 28.0 mi, 135° SE
Don Laughlin's Classic Auto Exhibition Hall (Museum) — 28.0 mi, 135° SE
Laughlin Stadium 9 Cinemas (Cinema) — 28.1 mi, 136° SE
Pavilion Theater (Theatre) — 28.3 mi, 137° SE
Desperado (Attraction) — 28.4 mi, 293° NW
Poki, World's Largest Desert Tortoise (Public Artwork) — 29.5 mi, 138° SE
Boulder City-Hoover Dam Museum (Museum) — 36.4 mi, 007° N

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