Pull up the geographic center of California on Google Maps and you'll be led to a unique destination in the state.

Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.

A map of California was ... an undated article about geographic centers from a senior mathematician with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, which became part of the National Oceanic and ...