Explore Williams, 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 Williams, 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 Williams.
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 | Williams |
| State | Oregon (OR) |
| County | Josephine County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 42.219433 |
| Longitude | -123.292208 |
| Population | 1,102 |
| Density | 37.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 97544 |
| Area Code | 541 |
| County Seat | Grants Pass |
| School District | Three Rivers School District |
Williams emerges from the floor of Cherry Gulch as a quiet confluence of riparian shadow and sun-drenched pastoral expanse. It lies 15.5 miles south of Grants Pass, OR (from Grants Pass, OR: bearing 170°T), and is situated 15.2 miles south-southeast of Redwood. Williams Creek cuts a persistent, winding path through the landscape, its cool currents sustaining the dense stands of timber that congregate at the water’s edge. Beyond the immediate basin, the distant silhouettes of the Klamath Mountains define the horizon, their jagged crests holding back the wider world and lending a sense of enclosure to the local sky. The light at dusk here possesses a peculiar weight, pooling in the low spots of the valley until the fields of Cedar Pond seem to dissolve into a deepening, velvet indigo.
Agriculture and the slow, deliberate work of the soil have long anchored the economy of Williams, grounding its inhabitants in a rhythm dictated by the seasons rather than the clock. The legacy of early settlers who recognized the fertility of the local earth remains visible in the stubborn, productive orchards and small-scale farms that persist today. Residents often look toward the Applegate River to find a wilder, more untamed solitude, or seek the elevation of the Grayback Clapboard Trail when the valley heat demands the thinning air of the heights. Life in Williams carries a texture of self-reliance, where the modern pace is tempered by the necessity of tending to the land and the quiet, persistent pull of the surrounding woodland.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Williams, Oregon. Coordinates: 42.219433, -123.292208. 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 Williams includes the ZIP code (97544), telephone area code (541), county seat of Josephine County (Grants Pass), and school district assignment (Three Rivers School District).
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. |