Explore St. Johns, 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 St. Johns, 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 St. Johns.
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 | St. Johns |
| State | Arizona (AZ) |
| County | Apache County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) |
| Latitude | 34.500368 |
| Longitude | -109.37691 |
| Population | 3,417 |
| Density | 50.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 85936 |
| Area Code | 928 |
| County Seat | St. Johns |
| School District | St. Johns Unified District |
St. Johns occupies a wide, high-desert plateau where the Little Colorado River carves a purposeful path through the parched, sun-bleached earth. It lies 41.9 miles east-northeast of Show Low, AZ (from Show Low, AZ: bearing 65°T), and is situated 27.6 miles north of Eagar. The landscape surrounding St. Johns is defined by an expansive horizon, where the distant, hazy silhouette of the Mogollon Rim anchors the southern sky against the relentless clarity of the high-altitude light. During the heat of the afternoon, the air shimmers with a dry, electric intensity, yet the evenings often bring a sudden, cooling stillness that settles over the terrain. Residents find a familiar point of repose at St Johns City Park, a green sliver of shade that offers a quiet contrast to the rugged, sage-dusted plains and the nearby waters of Little Reservoir, which mirrors the vast, unblemished blue of the Arizona sky.
Historical echoes of early pioneer settlement still resonate in the deliberate, steady pace of life in St. Johns, a place that maintains a quiet loyalty to its agrarian roots while adapting to the demands of modern energy production. The local economy draws its strength from the legacy of ranching and the industrial presence of power generation, creating a unique equilibrium between traditional land stewardship and the humming utility of the grid. Beyond the reach of Marion Haws Draw, the land remains largely untamed, characterized by its resilient scrub brush and the geological patience of the high plains. In St. Johns, the passage of time is marked less by clocks than by the shifting shadows of monsoon clouds and the seasonal rhythm of the river, which continues to sustain the community as it has for generations.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of St. Johns, Arizona. Coordinates: 34.500368, -109.37691. 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 St. Johns includes the ZIP code (85936), telephone area code (928), county seat of Apache County (St. Johns), and school district assignment (St. Johns 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. |