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Walker Lake Nevada Map

Explore Walker Lake, 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 Walker Lake, Nevada

How to Use This Walker Lake, Nevada Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Walker Lake, 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 Walker Lake.

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

Latitude	38.648254
Longitude	-118.75514
Population	247
Density	75.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	89415
Area Code	775
County Seat	Hawthorne
School District	Mineral County School District

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About Walker Lake, Nevada

Walker Lake is a locality in Mineral County, Nevada, United States. It is a small community with a population of 247. The population density is 75.4 people per km². Walker Lake is located at 38.6483°N, 118.7551°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 89415.

Walker Lake defines the arid horizon where the Great Basin sagebrush plains meet the stark, mineral-heavy waters of the desert floor. It lies 55.7 miles east-southeast of Gardnerville Ranchos, NV (from Gardnerville Ranchos, NV: bearing 107°T), and is situated 11.1 miles northwest of Hawthorne. Cottonwood Creek carves a narrow, verdant path toward the basin, providing a vital artery of life that trickles through the rugged terrain of Cottonwood Creek Canyon. In the distance, the jagged, snow-dusted peaks of the Sierra Nevada stand as a muted violet silhouette against the vast, pale sky. The light here possesses a peculiar, crystalline quality, stripping the landscape of pretense and leaving only the essential textures of sun-bleached rock and resilient, silver-green scrub.

History lingers in the quietude, echoing the era when steam-powered transport moved ore across the basin to fuel the industrial ambitions of the nineteenth century. Today, the economy leans into the preservation of the natural silence, centered largely on the recreational offerings found within the nearby Walker Lake State Park. Visitors arrive to observe the interplay of shadow and light across the water’s surface, a surface that fluctuates with the seasonal pull of evaporation and the sparse, precious runoff of the high country. Life at Walker Lake maintains a deliberate, measured pace, indifferent to the frenetic pace of distant urban centers, grounded instead in the ancient, slow-turning cycles of the high desert.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Walker Lake State Park (State Park) — 0.8 mi, 329° NW
Toiyabe National Forest (National Forest) — 12.3 mi, 218° SW · 3.9M acres
Wovoka Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 13.9 mi, 241° SW · 49k acres
Abandoned School Bus (Historic Ruins) — 15.5 mi, 225° SW
Gabbs Valley Range Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 24.5 mi, 069° E · 81k acres
Aurora (Historic Ruins) — 26.2 mi, 198° S
Rough Creek (Wild & Scenic River) — 27.1 mi, 209° SW · 899 acres
Bodie Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 27.3 mi, 208° SW · 17k acres
Atastra Creek (Wild & Scenic River) — 29.5 mi, 209° SW · 574 acres
Petroglyphs (Monument) — 30.0 mi, 166° S
Bodie Museum and Visitor Center (Museum) — 33.3 mi, 205° SW
Inyo National Forest (National Forest) — 34.8 mi, 182° S · 2.0M acres
Fort Independence (Viewpoint) — 37.6 mi, 222° SW
Mono Basin National Scenic Area (National Scenic Byway) — 38.2 mi, 194° S
Granite Mountain Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 39.2 mi, 183° S · 34k acres
Aspen Glen Reserve (Nature Reserve) — 40.5 mi, 260° W
Little Bodie Monument (Monument) — 41.6 mi, 214° SW
Hunewill Upper Sawmill (Monument) — 42.2 mi, 228° SW
Yosemite National Park (National Park) — 50.8 mi, 218° SW · 743k acres
South Tufa Area (Attraction) — 50.9 mi, 197° S
Navy Beach (Attraction) — 50.9 mi, 196° S
Upside-Down House (Attraction) — 51.6 mi, 203° SW
Palmyra Town Site (Attraction) — 53.7 mi, 312° NW
Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 57.1 mi, 011° N · 165k acres
Dayton Museum (Museum) — 60.7 mi, 312° NW
Dana Campfire Circle (Theatre) — 62.6 mi, 211° SW
Conness Campfire Circle (Theatre) — 63.0 mi, 212° SW
The Genoa Gallery (Gallery) — 63.7 mi, 293° NW
Van Gogh & Vino (Arts Centre) — 64.8 mi, 303° NW
Old US Mint (Museum) — 65.2 mi, 304° NW

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