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Columbia, California Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore Columbia, California from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Columbia building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in Columbia, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
Up close
Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey and the Census Bureau. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed Columbia artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves Columbia. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Columbia brings back fond memories.
Read the story behind this map of Columbia, California from 2026.
Find your street
Names on the Columbia map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Places and landmarks6
- Pioneer Park
- Springfield
- Yankee Hill
- Martinez
- Columbia Village
- Columbia Airport
Streets and roads77
- Jackson Street
- Bigler Street
- Parrotts Ferry Road
- John Wallace Drive
- Parrotts Ferry
- Loop Lane
- Main Street
- Sawmill Flat Road
- Italian Bar Road
- Broadway Street
- Gold Springs Street
- North Airport Road
- Yankee Hill Road
- Springfield Road
- Chile Gulch Road
- Bennett Road
- Shaws Flat Road
- Horseshoe Bend Road
- Kumquat Court
- Quarry Road
- Solo Lane
- Gold Springs Drive
- Forest Park Drive
- Red Gulch Road
- Porcina Way
- South Airport Road
- Union Hill Road
- Columbia Street
- Columbia College Drive
- Howser Lane
Show all 77 streets
- Raney Road
- Kennebec Lane
- Loop Street
- Slate Rim Road
- State Street
- Columbia Vista Drive
- Quinn Road
- Church Street
- Maiden Lane
- Isabella Court
- North Gold Street
- Green Street
- Rocher Court
- Melon Patch Lane
- Valparaiso Street
- Airport Road
- Holly Road
- Calico Hill Road
- Damin Road
- Cork Oak Lane
- Silver Street
- Piper Court
- Rambler Road
- Columbia Vista Court
- Columbia Village Drive
- Columbia Springs Lane
- Angel Cove Circle
- South Gold Street
- Mount Holly Lane
- Pacific Street
- Covered Wagon Drive
- Seminole Drive
- School House Street
- McKellar Drive
- Carlotta Terrace
- Quail Trail
- Rick Lane
- Bull Pine Lane
- Stagecoach Road
- Northrup Court
- Providence Street
- Green Oaks Hill Road
- Fulton Street
- Coarse Gold Lane
- Hudson Road
- Souza Lane
- Brian Lane
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Columbia, California
Columbia is a community of 2,577 people in Tuolumne County, in the Sierra Nevada foothills just north of Sonora. On March 27, 1850, a rainstorm stopped John Walker, Dr. Thaddeus Hildreth, George Hildreth and the rest of their party here. While their gear dried out, Walker tried the gulch nearby and struck gold.
Word of the strike spread fast, and within six weeks thousands of miners had arrived. Their camp, first known as Hildreth's Diggings, took the name Columbia on April 29, 1850. By 1852 the town had 8 hotels, 4 banks, 17 general stores, 3 churches and more than 40 drinking and gambling halls. Between 1850 and the early 1900s, miners took $87 million in gold from the surrounding hills, and some of it helped pay for the Union Army in the Civil War.
“Far up in the gold country town of Columbia, California, Mexican miners were so overjoyed at the news that they spontaneously fired off rifle shots and fireworks, sang patriotic songs and made impromptu speeches.”
- Rebuilt in red brickColumbia's first big fire, in 1854, destroyed six city blocks. The wealthier merchants rebuilt with locally made red brick and iron, while the rest of the town went back up in wood and canvas. A second fire in 1857 burned nearly everything else, leaving only three brick buildings standing.
- Digging up the townBy 1860 the gold was running out fast, and the only ground left to work lay under the town itself. Miners dug beneath buildings and tore down houses to reach it. When copper brought a boom to nearby Copperopolis, bricks from Columbia's wrecked buildings were sold there for new construction.
- A schoolhouse sold for $1Columbia built its one-room schoolhouse in 1860 and renovated it in 1872. Classes ended there in 1937, and in 1947 the state of California bought the building for $1 and made it part of the historic park.
- Saved as a state parkColumbia never emptied out the way many gold rush boomtowns did. In 1934 a New Deal program, the State Emergency Relief Administration, put 65 researchers to work at U.C. Berkeley's Bancroft Library and 56 more in the field to gather what was needed to restore the old town. California created Columbia State Historic Park in 1945, and its Main Street is still closed to cars.
Keep exploring California
Columbia is one of 1,990 California towns we've mapped. Every dot on the map is a print of its own.
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
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