Explore Boyds, Washington, 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 Boyds, Washington. 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 Washington 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 Boyds.
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 | Boyds |
| State | Washington (WA) |
| County | Ferry County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 48.724435 |
| Longitude | -118.132084 |
| Population | 34 |
| Density | 67.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 99141, 99107 |
| Area Code | 509 |
| County Seat | Republic |
| School District | Kettle Falls School District |
Boyds occupies a quiet stretch of high, arid land where the horizon pulls wide and the light holds a particular, thin clarity. It lies 41.9 miles west-northwest of Pend Oreille, WA (from Pend Oreille, WA: bearing 298°T), and is situated 15.5 miles northwest of Colville. The landscape is defined by the steady, unyielding presence of Kelly Hill, which rises three miles away to anchor the view, while the ground itself falls away into the dry, textured folds of the earth. Only a mile distant, Deadman Creek traces a path through the scrub and grasses, its presence marked more by the subtle shift in vegetation than by any rush of water. Residents of Boyds look toward the expanse of Franklin D Roosevelt Lake, three miles to the east, where the water gathers in the basin to mirror the vast, pale sky of the inland plateau. The entire region falls under the stewardship of the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area, a designation that keeps the surrounding terrain open and largely defined by the raw, geologic character of the high desert.
History in Boyds runs deep into the soil, tracing back to an era when the railroad and the promise of the interior shaped the settlement of the rugged terrain. The economy here remains tethered to the rhythms of the land, shaped by the cycles of agriculture and the sparse, deliberate pace of life that defines this corner of the state. Far from the damp, heavy air of the western reaches, the climate here sharpens the senses, favoring the durable and the patient. Life in Boyds moves with a gravity that honors the distance between neighbors and the long, quiet views that stretch toward the distant slopes of the plateau. It is a place where the passage of time is measured not by the clock, but by the slow, seasonal shifts of the grasses and the way the sun lingers against the hillsides at the end of a long, dry day.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Boyds, Washington. Coordinates: 48.724435, -118.132084. 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 Boyds includes the ZIP code (99141, 99107), telephone area code (509), county seat of Ferry County (Republic), and school district assignment (Kettle Falls 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. |