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Skull Valley Arizona Map

Explore Skull Valley, 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 Skull Valley, Arizona

How to Use This Skull Valley, Arizona Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Skull Valley, 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 Skull Valley.

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	Skull Valley
State	Arizona (AZ)
County	Yavapai County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix)

Latitude	34.505302
Longitude	-112.685454
Population	480
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	86338
Area Code	928
County Seat	Prescott

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About Skull Valley, Arizona

Skull Valley is a locality in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Skull Valley is located at 34.5053°N, 112.6855°W. It observes the Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) timezone. ZIP code: 86338.

Skull Valley unfolds across a high-desert expanse where the arid ground meets the persistent, dry reach of the Skull Valley Wash. It lies 12.6 miles west of Prescott, AZ (from Prescott, AZ: bearing 259°T), and is situated 15.2 miles south-southwest of Williamson. The landscape here is defined by the stark, serrated edges of Dead Mule Canyon, which carves deep, shadowed gashes into the earth, forcing the eye to trace the slow erosion of stone under a relentless sun. To the east, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Mogollon Rim anchors the horizon, while the proximity of the Bradshaw Ranger District provides a wooded contrast to the scrub-brush plains. Light in the late afternoon possesses a singular, golden clarity, illuminating the dust motes that dance above the State Trust Land, where the silence is broken only by the sharp, rhythmic call of meadowlarks and the dry rustle of desert grasses.

Skull Valley preserves a quiet legacy of early western settlement, its history rooted in the hard, unyielding labor of cattle ranching and the slow, deliberate pace of agricultural life. The local economy persists in this tradition, favoring the independence of small-scale livestock operations and the maintenance of open range over the clamor of modern industrial encroachment. Residents often find their way toward the Sierra Prieta Crest Trail Number Two Hundred Sixty Four for a respite among the pines, or seek the stillness near the edges of Middle Tank, where the water serves as a rare, reflective eye in the parched landscape. Life in Skull Valley moves with the seasons, dictated by the arrival of monsoon clouds that gather over the distant peaks and the quiet, enduring resilience of a community that has long learned to thrive in the margins of the Sonoran heat.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State Trust Land (State Resource Management Area) — 0.8 mi, 275° W
Prescott National Forest (National Forest) — 3.8 mi, 040° NE · 1.3M acres
Skull Valley Overlook (Viewpoint) — 7.4 mi, 090° E
White Spar Watersheds, Plo 1852 Watershed Withdrawal (National Conservation Area) — 8.7 mi, 097° E · 1,028 acres
Granite Mountain Wilderness (Az) (Wilderness Area) — 9.1 mi, 040° NE · 9,808 acres
Firefighters Memorial (Monument) — 9.8 mi, 073° E
Upper Granite Creek Watershed (Public Artwork) — 12.1 mi, 077° E
Sharlot Hall Museum (Museum) — 12.3 mi, 078° E
Granite Creek (Monument) — 12.4 mi, 078° E
Pauline Weaver (Monument) — 12.4 mi, 078° E
Van Gogh’s Ear (Gallery) — 12.5 mi, 079° E
Western Heritage Center (Museum) — 12.5 mi, 079° E
Weir Gallery (Gallery) — 12.5 mi, 078° E
Arts Prescott Gallery (Gallery) — 12.5 mi, 079° E
Museum of Indigenous People (Museum) — 13.2 mi, 078° E
Pioneer Park (Local Park) — 13.3 mi, 061° NE
Fort Whipple Museum (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 076° E
Heritage Park Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 15.5 mi, 061° NE
Granite Dells (Attraction) — 16.4 mi, 069° E
Phippen Museum of Western Art (Museum) — 16.9 mi, 061° NE
Lynx Creek Streamside Zone, Plo 5058 Streamside Zone Withdrawal (National Conservation Area) — 17.0 mi, 085° E · 998 acres
Lynx Creek Gold Pan Day Use Area (Attraction) — 17.2 mi, 084° E
Yarnell Fire 19 Spot (Attraction) — 18.2 mi, 193° S
Fatality Site (Attraction) — 20.4 mi, 195° S
Arrastra Mountain Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 29.7 mi, 241° SW · 130k acres
Agua Fria National Monument (National Monument) — 35.1 mi, 114° SE · 72k acres
Coconino National Forest (National Forest) — 41.6 mi, 058° NE · 1.8M acres

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