Explore Rancho Mesa Verde, 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 Rancho Mesa Verde, 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 Rancho Mesa Verde.
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 | Rancho Mesa Verde |
| State | Arizona (AZ) |
| County | Yuma County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) |
| Latitude | 32.5944 |
| Longitude | -114.6551 |
| Population | 571 |
| Density | 1968.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 85350 |
| Area Code | 480 |
| County Seat | Yuma |
| School District | Somerton Elementary District |
Rancho Mesa Verde commands a stark, sun-bleached expanse where the horizon stretches thin and pale against the relentless clarity of the Arizona sky. It lies 3.2 miles east of Somerton, AZ (from Somerton, AZ: bearing 93°T), and is situated 9.2 miles south of Yuma. The terrain is defined by the flat, arid reach of the Yuma Desert, a landscape of creosote and hard-packed earth that holds the day’s heat long after the sun has retreated behind the jagged, distant silhouette of the Ogilby Hills. Four miles to the west, the channel of Main Drain cuts a silent, infrequent path through the dust, while the open, rugged expanse of State Trust Land provides a buffer of raw, uncultivated territory that defines the perimeter of Rancho Mesa Verde. Here, the light at dusk does not merely fade; it bruises the land in shades of violet and ochre, turning the sparse vegetation into silhouettes that seem to watch the slow cooling of the desert floor.
Economic life in Rancho Mesa Verde is tied to the patience required by such an unforgiving environment, where agriculture and land stewardship dictate the tempo of the calendar. Long before modern transit lines marked the maps, this ground was part of a migratory corridor, and today the legacy of the desert persists in the way residents organize their labor around the seasonal shifts of the sun. While Haughtelin Lake remains a distant point of interest twelve miles away, the immediate focus remains on the resilience of the local soil and the quiet persistence of those who work it. The pace of life is dictated by the wind and the occasional monsoon clouds that gather in the distance, promising rain that often evaporates before it can touch the ground, leaving behind only the scent of wet stone and the quiet, unending stretch of the basin.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rancho Mesa Verde, Arizona. Coordinates: 32.5944, -114.6551. 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 Rancho Mesa Verde includes the ZIP code (85350), telephone area code (480), county seat of Yuma County (Yuma), and school district assignment (Somerton Elementary 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. |