Explore Mountainaire, 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 Mountainaire, 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 Mountainaire.
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 | Mountainaire |
| State | Arizona (AZ) |
| County | Coconino County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) |
| Latitude | 35.093767 |
| Longitude | -111.645195 |
| Population | 1,068 |
| Density | 40.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 86005 |
| Area Code | 928 |
| County Seat | Flagstaff |
| School District | Flagstaff Unified District |
Mountainaire occupies a high-altitude expanse of ponderosa pine forest where the air remains thin and sharp against the lungs. It lies 7.8 miles south of Flagstaff, AZ (from Flagstaff, AZ: bearing 186°T), and is situated 1.7 miles east-southeast of Kachina Village. Sunlight filters through the dense canopy of the Coconino National Forest, casting long, fractured shadows across the needle-strewn floor of Schoolhouse Draw. To the south, the massive, hazy silhouette of the Mogollon Rim defines the horizon, acting as a silent sentinel over the cooling landscape. Water flows intermittently through the rocky bed of Pumphouse Wash, a quiet artery that carves through the terrain, while the deeper stillness of Lower Lake Mary waits five miles away, reflecting the relentless blue of the high-desert sky.
Mountainaire retains the quiet character of a settlement forged by the intersection of timber transit and the slow expansion of the railway. While the regional economy once relied heavily on the harvest of the surrounding woods, the rhythm of life here now favors a stillness that draws those seeking refuge from the heat of the lower basins. The legacy of the Mormon Lake Ranger District remains visible in the stewardship of the timberland, a reminder of the labor that shaped the early character of the region. Residents often look toward the distant, rugged paths like the A B Young Trail when the seasons turn, observing how the light shifts across the bark of the pines as the afternoon wanes into a deep, crystalline cold.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mountainaire, Arizona. Coordinates: 35.093767, -111.645195. 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 Mountainaire includes the ZIP code (86005), telephone area code (928), county seat of Coconino County (Flagstaff), and school district assignment (Flagstaff 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. |