Explore Lupton, 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 Lupton, 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 Lupton.
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 | Lupton |
| State | Arizona (AZ) |
| County | Apache County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 35.353913 |
| Longitude | -109.053702 |
| Population | 19 |
| Density | 21.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 86508 |
| Area Code | 928 |
| County Seat | St. Johns |
| School District | Sanders Unified District |
Lupton occupies a stark, sun-bleached expanse where the Puerco River carves a shallow, sandy path through the high desert floor. It lies 21.2 miles southwest of Gallup, NM (from Gallup, NM: bearing 236°T), and is situated 22.6 miles north-northwest of Zuni Pueblo. The landscape is defined by vast, open plains that stretch toward the faint, serrated silhouette of Torrivio Ridge on the distant horizon, while the nearby Wild Goat Canyon offers a deeper, more shadowed contrast to the flat, sun-drenched plateau. During the dry season, the earth takes on the color of weathered bone, yet the light at dusk softens the jagged edges of the terrain, casting long, violet shadows that make the dry grasses appear to glow with a fleeting, inner warmth. Beyond these immediate plains, the land remains largely untamed, save for the occasional reach of State Trust Land that preserves the quiet, expansive character of the high-altitude scrub.
Lupton serves as a silent witness to the movement of travelers along the historic corridors that have long connected the high plateaus of the Southwest. The economy here remains rooted in the rhythms of the land and the steady flow of transit, with local life defined by the patient endurance of those who tend to the sparse, scrub-filled acreage. While the water at Campus Tank remains a quiet, isolated point of reflection miles away from the main thoroughfares, the daily life of Lupton is dictated by the immense, quiet sky and the shifting winds that scour the valley floor. There is a profound stillness to the locality, where the passage of time is measured not by the clock, but by the slow rotation of shadows across the red-dusted earth and the persistent, resonant silence of the Navajo Nation surrounding it.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lupton, Arizona. Coordinates: 35.353913, -109.053702. 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 Lupton includes the ZIP code (86508), telephone area code (928), county seat of Apache County (St. Johns), and school district assignment (Sanders Unified 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. |