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Sunwest Arizona Map

Explore Sunwest, 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 Sunwest, Arizona

How to Use This Sunwest, Arizona Map

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

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	Sunwest
State	Arizona (AZ)
County	La Paz County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix)

Latitude	33.650984
Longitude	-113.409131
Population	5
Density	0.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	85348
Area Code	480
County Seat	Parker
School District	Bicentennial Union High School District

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About Sunwest, Arizona

Sunwest is a locality in La Paz County, Arizona, United States. It is a small community with a population of 5. The population density is 0.1 people per km². Sunwest is located at 33.6510°N, 113.4091°W. It observes the Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) timezone. ZIP code: 85348.

Sunwest emerges from the raw, sun-bleached expanse of the desert floor like a deliberate pause in the vast, arid stillness. It lies 39.2 miles southeast of La Paz, AZ (from La Paz, AZ: bearing 127°T), and is situated 51.7 miles west-northwest of Buckeye. The landscape is defined by the sharp, terracotta silhouettes of Red Hills rising two miles to the horizon, casting long, bruised shadows that stretch across the scrubland as the day wanes. Three miles away, the dry, sandy bed of Centennial Wash carves a shallow, serpentine path through the terrain, its banks lined with hardy brush that waits for the sudden, violent grace of monsoon rains. The air here holds a dry, ancient weight, vibrating with the heat shimmer that dances over the ground until the evening light turns the sky a deep, bruised violet, softening the jagged edges of the earth.

Sunwest occupies a quiet corner of the expansive State Trust Land, which sits just one mile from the residential grid and serves as a sprawling, untamed buffer against the encroaching silence of the desert. The economy here moves at the deliberate pace of the sun, anchored by a blend of regional logistics and the steady, necessary labor that maintains the infrastructure of the surrounding Adobe Flats. History in this region is measured not in monuments, but in the persistence of those who learned to read the shifting winds and the lean, unforgiving soil. Life in Sunwest remains tethered to the rhythm of the seasons, where the primary pursuit is simply the maintenance of a home against the intensity of the light, creating a culture that values endurance and the quiet, solitary beauty of an open, unobstructed horizon.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State Trust Land (State Resource Management Area) — locality lies within
Harquahala Mountains Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 2.0 mi, 008° N
Eagletail Mountains Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 8.9 mi, 184° S · 101k acres
Harquahala Mountains Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 10.6 mi, 032° NE · 23k acres
Kofa National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 20.8 mi, 251° W · 1.3M acres
New Hope (Attraction) — 22.5 mi, 218° SW
Saddle Mountain Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 22.7 mi, 124° SE
Royal Arch (Attraction) — 22.8 mi, 220° SW
Saddle Mountain BLM petroglyphs (Historic Ruins) — 25.3 mi, 124° SE
Hovatter Homestead (Historic Ruins) — 29.1 mi, 225° SW
Natural Arch (Attraction) — 29.2 mi, 171° S
Saint Joseph (Public Artwork) — 31.3 mi, 100° E
Vulture Mine Tours / Vulture City Ghost Town (Museum) — 35.3 mi, 071° E
Bouse Museum (Museum) — 39.3 mi, 300° NW
Cactus Plain Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 39.7 mi, 309° NW · 59k acres
Wickenburg Massacre Historical Monument (Monument) — 41.2 mi, 058° NE
Railroad Depot Overlook (Viewpoint) — 43.5 mi, 326° NW
Wickenburg Jail Tree (Attraction) — 44.8 mi, 060° NE
Oatman Family Memorial (Monument) — 47.0 mi, 162° S
Gillespie Dam Interpretive Center (Monument) — 47.2 mi, 128° SE
Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 52.2 mi, 323° NW · 9,890 acres
Sonoran Desert National Monument (National Monument) — 54.4 mi, 123° SE · 496k acres
The Vista Center for the Arts (Arts Centre) — 58.9 mi, 091° E
Faith Arena (Stadium) — 59.7 mi, 091° E
The Estrella Lakeside Amphitheater (Theatre) — 60.1 mi, 110° E
Prescott National Forest (National Forest) — 61.9 mi, 055° NE · 1.3M acres
Gila Bend Museum (Museum) — 62.6 mi, 141° SE
Sun Bowl Amphitheatre (Arts Centre) — 64.5 mi, 094° E

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