Explore Copalis Beach, 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 Copalis Beach, 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 Copalis Beach.
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 | Copalis Beach |
| State | Washington (WA) |
| County | Grays Harbor County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 47.124571 |
| Longitude | -124.166453 |
| Population | 447 |
| Density | 47.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 98535 |
| Area Code | 425 |
| County Seat | Montesano |
| School District | North Beach School District |
Copalis Beach sustains a quiet, elemental existence where the Copalis River spills its sediment into the Pacific, defining the edge of the world with a persistent, cold rush of water. It lies 19.3 miles west-northwest of Aberdeen, WA (from Aberdeen, WA: bearing 299°T), and is situated 9.6 miles north of Ocean Shores. The landscape is defined by the flat, expansive reach of the tide, where the sand remains firm enough to mirror the heavy, bruised clouds of a coastal afternoon. To the east, the rising silhouette of Langley Hill interrupts the horizon, providing a singular, solid marker against the shifting gray expanse. Adjoining the shoreline, Griffith-Priday serves as a threshold between the untamed dunes and the dense, salt-sprayed evergreen growth, allowing the ocean air to scrub the land clean of all pretense.
Generations have looked to the sea here, finding a meager but steady living through razor clamming and the harvesting of what the tides offer up to the shore. Copalis Beach carries the weight of a frontier that never fully closed, where the economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the seasons rather than the demands of a clock. While Armstrong Bay sits at a distance, its presence is felt in the way the local winds shift and pull, shaping the habits of those who dwell in the damp, fertile quiet. The culture of the place is one of slow observation, where the daily labor of extraction and survival is balanced by the simple, enduring beauty of a coastline that demands nothing more than a witness to its constant, restless motion.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Copalis Beach, Washington. Coordinates: 47.124571, -124.166453. 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 Copalis Beach includes the ZIP code (98535), telephone area code (425), county seat of Grays Harbor County (Montesano), and school district assignment (North Beach 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. |