Explore Maish Vaya, 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 Maish Vaya, 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 Maish Vaya.
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 | Maish Vaya |
| State | Arizona (AZ) |
| County | Pima County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) |
| Latitude | 32.167014 |
| Longitude | -112.127356 |
| Population | 129 |
| Density | 11.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 85634 |
| Area Code | 520 |
| County Seat | Tucson |
| School District | Indian Oasis-Baboquivari Unified District |
Maish Vaya occupies a stark, sun-bleached expanse where the Quijotoa Wash carves a shallow, gravelly artery through the basin floor. It lies 52.6 miles southwest of Eloy, AZ (from Eloy, AZ: bearing 220°T), and is situated 53.7 miles south-southwest of Casa Grande. The terrain here favors the resilient, characterized by a persistent heat shimmer that blurs the jagged silhouette of the Sierra Blanca rising eight miles to the horizon. In the quiet hours of late afternoon, the light turns a bruised, honeyed gold, casting long shadows from the scattered ocotillo and saguaro that stand as silent sentinels over the scrubland. Five miles away, the subtle dip of Brownell Valley offers a slight variation in the topography, though the overarching sensation remains one of immense, unyielding space, punctuated only by the occasional flight of a hawk circling above the dry, alkaline earth.
Maish Vaya maintains a slow, deliberate pace, reflecting the harsh demands of a landscape where water is a precious, fleeting commodity. While Havana Tank provides a rare catchment seven miles to the north, the local economy has historically leaned toward modest cattle grazing and the quiet extraction of mineral wealth that defines this corner of the state. The culture here is defined by a deep, unspoken familiarity with the desert, where residents navigate the seasons by the arrival of monsoon clouds rather than the turning of calendar pages. Life in Maish Vaya persists in the rhythm of the high desert, where the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the grit of wind against corrugated metal and the enduring, profound silence that settles over the plains once the sun dips below the western ridge.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Maish Vaya, Arizona. Coordinates: 32.167014, -112.127356. 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 Maish Vaya includes the ZIP code (85634), telephone area code (520), county seat of Pima County (Tucson), and school district assignment (Indian Oasis-Baboquivari 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. |