Explore Kaka, Arizona, 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 Kaka, Arizona. 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 Arizona 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 Kaka.
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 | Kaka |
| State | Arizona (AZ) |
| County | Maricopa County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) |
| Latitude | 32.50978 |
| Longitude | -112.316531 |
| Density | 88.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 85321 |
| Area Code | 480 |
| County Seat | Phoenix |
Kaka remains defined by the persistent, sandy indentation of the Kaka Wash, which cuts a dry, gravelly path through the sun-bleached expanse of the desert floor. It lies 34.5 miles south of Estrella, AZ (from Estrella, AZ: bearing 170°T), and is situated 33.1 miles east-northeast of Ajo. This landscape is one of stark, deliberate geometry, where the pale brush and scattered saguaros stand in quiet relief against the horizon. Thirteen miles to the east, the jagged silhouette of the Vekol Mountains rises to catch the afternoon light, turning a deep, bruised violet as the sun descends. The air here holds a profound stillness, a quality of silence that seems to stretch across the open plains, occasionally broken by the sudden, sharp movement of a lizard across the baked earth or the slow rotation of shadows beneath the creosote.
Kaka endures as a remote outpost in the vast, arid territory that finds its protected expression nearby within the Sonoran Desert National Monument. The rhythm of life here is dictated by the extreme climate and the sparse, rugged terrain, which leads the eye eight miles toward the broader, more expansive reaches of the Kaka Valley. While the region is largely defined by its natural isolation, the local character is tethered to a long, quiet history of endurance in a land that offers little to those who do not respect its limits. Economic activity remains modest and tied to the land’s raw, unyielding resources, far removed from the centers of industry. Water is the singular, precious preoccupation of the residents, who understand that even the dry bed of the Kaka Wash can transform during the rare, intense pulse of a monsoon, briefly animating a landscape that otherwise exists in a state of suspended, golden heat.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Kaka, Arizona. Coordinates: 32.50978, -112.316531. 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 Kaka includes the ZIP code (85321), telephone area code (480), county seat of Maricopa County (Phoenix), and school district assignment.
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. |