Explore Many Farms, 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 Many Farms, 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 Many Farms.
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 | Many Farms |
| State | Arizona (AZ) |
| County | Apache County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 36.342893 |
| Longitude | -109.637623 |
| Population | 1,243 |
| Density | 58.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 86538 |
| Area Code | 928 |
| County Seat | St. Johns |
| School District | Chinle Unified District |
Many Farms occupies a high, arid expanse where the sunlight bleaches the earth into shades of pale ochre and bone. It lies 75.1 miles northwest of Gallup, NM (from Gallup, NM: bearing 320°T), and is situated 14.2 miles north-northwest of Chinle. The landscape stretches toward the horizon in flat, uncompromising plains, interrupted only by the distant, craggy silhouette of Owl Nest rising against the vast, pale sky. A mile from the center, Many Farms Lake holds the desert heat in its still surface, reflecting the clouds that gather in afternoon swells. To the west, the earth drops away into the shadowed fissures of Tezinie Canyon, while the intermittent path of Sheep Dip Creek marks the terrain with a thin, winding vein of scrub and dry stone.
Agriculture defines the pulse of Many Farms, a legacy of irrigation that defies the surrounding parched climate to coax life from the alkali soil. The local economy persists through a quiet dedication to ranching and trade, grounded in the traditions of the Navajo Nation that have sustained these families for generations. Life moves in accordance with the shifting shadows of the day, where the air grows cold with sudden clarity as the sun dips behind the distant earth. There is a profound, heavy stillness here that settles over the low-slung buildings and the quiet roads, an endurance that persists long after the wind has ceased its scouring of the high desert floor.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Many Farms, Arizona. Coordinates: 36.342893, -109.637623. 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 Many Farms includes the ZIP code (86538), telephone area code (928), county seat of Apache County (St. Johns), and school district assignment (Chinle 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. |