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Red Mesa Arizona Map

Explore Red Mesa, 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.

Interactive Map of Red Mesa, Arizona

How to Use This Red Mesa, Arizona Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Red Mesa, 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 Red Mesa.

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	Red Mesa
State	Arizona (AZ)
County	Apache County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	36.971111
Longitude	-109.36982
Population	354
Density	10.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	86514
Area Code	928
County Seat	St. Johns
School District	Red Mesa Unified District

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About Red Mesa, Arizona

Red Mesa is a locality in Apache County, Arizona, United States. It is a small community with a population of 354. The population density is 10.6 people per km². Red Mesa is located at 36.9711°N, 109.3698°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 86514.

Red Mesa anchors a vast, sun-bleached expanse where the horizon pulls tight against the sky like a drumhead. It lies 66.2 miles west-northwest of Farmington, NM (from Farmington, NM: bearing 287°T), and is situated 49.5 miles west-southwest of Cortez. The land here is defined by the unrelenting presence of Red Mesa, the peak that looms a mere mile away, casting long, bruised shadows as the afternoon wanes. To the north, the terrain stretches toward the expansive White Mesa Valley, a basin where the air holds a dry, mineral clarity that makes distant scrub brush appear startlingly sharp. While Gothic Creek snakes through the parched earth four miles to the east, its path is often little more than a sandy scar, a fleeting reminder of water in a landscape that measures time in the slow, persistent erosion of sandstone and the shifting of fine, red silt.

Red Mesa exists as a quiet intersection of heritage and survival, where the rhythm of life aligns with the cycles of the high desert rather than the ticking of a clock. The local economy remains tethered to the land, drawing from the sparse resources of a region shaped by the history of Navajo and Hopi stewardship. Travelers passing through might glimpse the distant boundaries of the San Juan River Area of Critical Environmental Concern, an expanse eighteen miles away that preserves the integrity of the wilder, untouched plains. In the soft light of dusk, when the color of the earth deepens to a rich, rusted iron, the silence of the desert becomes a physical weight, grounding every inhabitant in the stark, elemental beauty of the plateau.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Boundary Butte Viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 10.7 mi, 290° W
Four Corners Monument (Attraction) — 18.0 mi, 084° E
Cliff Dwelling (Historic Ruins) — 19.4 mi, 170° S
San Juan River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 20.2 mi, 002° N
Bears Ears National Monument (National Monument) — 21.9 mi, 348° N · 1.8M acres
John Taylor (Monument) — 23.8 mi, 335° NW
Twin Rocks (Attraction) — 24.0 mi, 336° NW
Bluff Great House (Anasazi) (Historic Ruins) — 24.2 mi, 335° NW
Sand Island Petroglyph Panel (Attraction) — 24.3 mi, 326° NW
Whale Rock (Attraction) — 24.4 mi, 210° SW
Canyons Of The Ancients National Monument (National Monument) — 25.8 mi, 044° NE · 183k acres
Road Canyon Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 29.1 mi, 317° NW · 52k acres
Historic Hatch Trading Post (Museum) — 30.1 mi, 015° N
San Juan Trading Post (Public Artwork) — 30.1 mi, 295° NW
San Juan River #5 (Wild & Scenic River) — 30.7 mi, 295° NW · 1,876 acres
Inholding Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 32.6 mi, 323° NW · 68k acres
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 35.9 mi, 298° NW · 1.2M acres
Thunderbird Mesa (Monument) — 39.2 mi, 266° W
Brigham Young's Tomb (Monument) — 39.8 mi, 278° W
Monument Valley Visitor Center (Museum) — 41.0 mi, 271° W
Gouldings Museum and Trading Post (Museum) — 46.1 mi, 273° W
Mesa Verde National Park (National Park) — 47.3 mi, 074° E · 53k acres
Manti-La Sal National Forest (National Forest) — 47.6 mi, 337° NW · 1.3M acres
Claret Cup Amphitheater (Theatre) — 49.4 mi, 059° NE
Chapin Amphitheater (Theatre) — 50.6 mi, 073° E
Burger King with Navajo Code Talkers exhibit (Museum) — 52.1 mi, 250° W
Hogan (Museum) — 52.1 mi, 250° W
Dark Canyon Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 55.4 mi, 334° NW · 46k acres
San Juan National Forest (National Forest) — 57.7 mi, 037° NE · 1.9M acres
Canyonlands National Park (National Park) — 70.6 mi, 347° N · 334k acres

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