Explore Falls City, Oregon, 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 Falls City, Oregon. 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 Oregon 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 Falls City.
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 | Falls City |
| State | Oregon (OR) |
| County | Polk County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 44.866228 |
| Longitude | -123.435938 |
| Population | 1,051 |
| Density | 337.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 97344 |
| Area Code | 503, 971 |
| County Seat | Dallas |
| School District | Falls City School District 57 |
Falls City occupies a rugged pocket of Oregon where the terrain rises in a series of wooded folds toward the distant Coast Range. It lies 6.9 miles west-southwest of Dallas, OR (from Dallas, OR: bearing 238°T), and is situated 10.0 miles west of Monmouth. The Little Luckiamute River carves a path directly through the landscape, its current defining the life of the place as it flows past homes and timbered slopes. Dense stands of timber dominate the horizon, with the George T Gerlinger State Experimental Forest providing a nearby canopy of deep green. A short distance away, the water of Steen Reservoir holds a flat, quiet reflection of the sky, while the persistent sound of water moving over stone marks the proximity of Berry Creek Falls. The air here holds a damp, heavy stillness, especially in the mornings when the gray light clings to the valley floor and shifts slowly across the rough-hewn bark of the surrounding woods.
Falls City grew from the labor of the timber industry, its early years defined by the rhythmic bite of saws and the transit of logs down from the high ground. While the economy has evolved, the character of the settlement remains tethered to the dense, productive timberland that surrounds it, maintaining a deliberate distance from the busier corridors to the east. Residents look toward Socialist Valley as a reminder of the region's long-standing connection to the land and the quiet, agrarian potential of the basin. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a place that values its seclusion, where the modern world is felt only as a faint, distant hum. The history of Falls City is written in the silence of the forest and the persistent, unhurried flow of the river, leaving a legacy of endurance that persists in the steady, unassuming routine of the people who call these hills home.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Falls City, Oregon. Coordinates: 44.866228, -123.435938. 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 Falls City includes the ZIP code (97344), telephone area code (503, 971), county seat of Polk County (Dallas), and school district assignment (Falls City School District 57).
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. |