Explore Tonalea, 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 Tonalea, 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 Tonalea.
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 | Tonalea |
| State | Arizona (AZ) |
| County | Coconino County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 36.322492 |
| Longitude | -110.963478 |
| Population | 451 |
| Density | 17.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 86044 |
| Area Code | 928 |
| County Seat | Flagstaff |
| School District | Tuba City Unified District |
Tonalea emerges from the high, arid plateau as a sparse collection of structures scattered across a landscape defined by the relentless clarity of the desert light. It lies 86.7 miles north-northeast of Flagstaff, AZ (from Flagstaff, AZ: bearing 26°T), and is situated 20.1 miles northeast of Tuba City. The ground here is a study in ochre and sun-bleached dust, where the basin of Red Lake holds the memory of moisture long after the summer rains have retreated into the atmosphere. To the east, the silhouette of Wildcat Peak marks the edge of the sky, its jagged profile anchoring a horizon that otherwise seems to dissolve into the shimmering heat. The air carries a thin, dry sharpness, and the silence of the open plains is punctuated only by the occasional gust of wind scouring the low, scrubby brush that clings to the earth near the path of Sour Water Wash.
Tonalea serves as a quiet junction within the expansive reach of Navajo land, where the economy remains tied to the rhythms of ranching and the maintenance of traditional ways of life. History here is written in the endurance of the families who have moved across these spaces for generations, their presence marked by small clusters of dwellings and the steady movement of livestock over the sage-dusted flats. While the nearest recreation, Unknown Park, lies nearly twenty miles away, the locality itself offers a profound intimacy with the geology of the region, where the earth reveals its layering in every exposed ridge and dry gully. Life in Tonalea proceeds with a deliberate pace, governed by the slow transit of the sun and the vast, unpeopled scale of the terrain that surrounds every home and road.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tonalea, Arizona. Coordinates: 36.322492, -110.963478. 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 Tonalea includes the ZIP code (86044), telephone area code (928), county seat of Coconino County (Flagstaff), and school district assignment (Tuba City 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. |