Explore Sweet Water Village, 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 Sweet Water Village, 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 Sweet Water Village.
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 | Sweet Water Village |
| State | Arizona (AZ) |
| County | Pinal County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) |
| Latitude | 33.1274 |
| Longitude | -111.8424 |
| Population | 123 |
| Density | 59.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 85121, 85147 |
| Area Code | 480 |
| County Seat | Florence |
| School District | Casa Grande Union High School District |
Sweet Water Village occupies a stark expanse of desert scrub where the horizon stretches indefinitely under a sun that bleaches the color from the earth by midday. It lies 6.1 miles south-southeast of Sun Lakes, AZ (from Sun Lakes, AZ: bearing 162°T), and is situated 6.9 miles west-northwest of Sacaton. The landscape around Sweet Water Village is defined by the flat, sun-baked plains that extend toward the distant Casa Grande Valley, punctuated only by the occasional silhouette of a saguaro or the sharp, jagged profile of Gila Butte rising to the north. A mile away, the Gila River carves a narrow, erratic path through the parched soil, its presence signaled primarily by the deeper green of mesquite and saltcedar that cling to its banks. During the height of the summer, the air hums with a dry, electric tension, and the ground retains a warmth that seems to pulse long after the light has faded into a bruised, violet dusk.
Agriculture remains the quiet pulse of the local economy, with irrigation systems drawing from the Gila River to sustain small plots of hardy crops that defy the arid climate. The history of the area is etched into the very dust of the roads, tracing back to the endurance of those who first settled these plains, choosing to cultivate a life in a land that demands constant vigilance. Residents often look toward the horizon where the silhouette of Gila Butte serves as a silent, unchanging sentinel over their daily routines. Those seeking a respite from the intensity of the open desert frequently travel six miles to La Paloma, where the terrain offers a slightly different perspective on the resilience of the local flora. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of the desert, where the significance of a day is measured by the quality of the light and the slow, steady persistence of the people working the land.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sweet Water Village, Arizona. Coordinates: 33.1274, -111.8424. 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 Sweet Water Village includes the ZIP code (85121, 85147), telephone area code (480), county seat of Pinal County (Florence), and school district assignment (Casa Grande Union High School 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. |