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O'Brien Oregon Map

Explore O'Brien, 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.

Interactive Map of O'Brien, Oregon

How to Use This O'Brien, Oregon Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for O'Brien, 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 O'Brien.

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	O'Brien
State	Oregon (OR)
County	Josephine County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	42.079926
Longitude	-123.704571
Population	470
Density	34.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	97534
Area Code	541
County Seat	Grants Pass
School District	Three Rivers School District

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About O'Brien, Oregon

O'Brien is a locality in Josephine County, Oregon, United States. It is a small community with a population of 470. The population density is 34.8 people per km². O'Brien is located at 42.0799°N, 123.7046°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 97534.

O'Brien emerges from the dense, evergreen silence where the low-hanging mist clings to the needles of Douglas firs and salal. It lies 32.0 miles southwest of Grants Pass, OR (from Grants Pass, OR: bearing 217°T), and is situated 29.8 miles east of Brookings. The landscape is defined by the steady, rhythmic passage of O'Brien Creek, which cuts through the soil with a clarity that mirrors the gray, muted light filtering through the canopy. To the east, the terrain rises toward the distant, serrated silhouettes of the Klamath Mountains, while the immediate ground is broken by the sharp, narrow descent into Fry Gulch. The air here carries a heavy, damp weight, smelling of damp earth and slow-growing timber, settling over the land in a quietude that persists long after the sun has slipped behind the ridgeline.

O'Brien exists as a purposeful enclave within the West Fork Illinois River ACEC, where the protection of the land has dictated the pace of human life for generations. The local economy remains anchored to the earth, echoing a history of timber and mining that once pulled laborers into these thickets and kept them there through the changing seasons. Residents look toward the distant Chetco Divide Trail for passage into the higher wild, yet the daily rhythm of O'Brien is defined by the modest, necessary labor of maintaining one’s own patch of ground. There is a raw, unvarnished endurance in the way the local structures weather the cycles of rain and dormancy, standing as weathered witnesses to a life lived in accordance with the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Siskiyou National Forest (National Forest) — locality lies within · 1.1M acres
Rough And Ready Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 0.3 mi, 062° NE
West Fork Illinois River (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 0.7 mi, 160° S
Rough And Ready Creek (Conservation Area) — 1.0 mi, 277° W
Rough And Ready State Natural Site (State Conservation Area) — 1.4 mi, 044° NE
Sailor's Diggings - Waldo Memorial (Monument) — 3.5 mi, 113° SE
Great Cats World Park (Attraction) — 4.8 mi, 029° NE
Butterfly Pavilion (Attraction) — 4.9 mi, 027° NE
Fort Briggs Historical Marker (Monument) — 6.0 mi, 053° NE
Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve (National Monument) — 6.4 mi, 028° NE · 4,531 acres
Southern Oregon Bigfoot Experience (Museum) — 6.8 mi, 026° NE
Kalmiopsis Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 6.9 mi, 302° NW · 180k acres
Smith River National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 7.2 mi, 217° SW · 330k acres
Six Rivers National Forest (National Forest) — 7.2 mi, 217° SW · 978k acres
Smith River, California Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 7.3 mi, 217° SW · 67k acres
Kerbyville Museum (Museum) — 8.6 mi, 019° N
The Dovetail joint (Public Artwork) — 8.6 mi, 018° N
Chetco, Oregon Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 9.2 mi, 293° NW · 13k acres
Siskiyou Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 10.6 mi, 160° S · 180k acres
Kerby Flat Viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 13.9 mi, 004° N
Japanese Bombing Site Trailhead (Attraction) — 21.4 mi, 270° W
Fir glade trailhead (Attraction) — 21.9 mi, 103° E
Mount Emily Fire Lookout Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 23.0 mi, 274° W
Engine (Historic Ruins) — 25.9 mi, 220° SW
The People's Center (Museum) — 26.0 mi, 140° SE
Redwood Cinema (Cinema) — 29.7 mi, 267° W
Wright's Custom Framing & Art Supplies (Gallery) — 29.9 mi, 267° W
Southgate Cinema (Cinema) — 30.1 mi, 038° NE
Reinhart Volunteer All Sports Park Entrance (Monument) — 30.2 mi, 037° NE
Chetco Pelican Players (Theatre) — 30.4 mi, 267° W

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