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Tsaile Arizona Map

Explore Tsaile, 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 Tsaile, Arizona

How to Use This Tsaile, Arizona Map

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

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	Tsaile
State	Arizona (AZ)
County	Apache County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	36.3033
Longitude	-109.2157
Population	1,408
Density	91.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	86556
Area Code	928
County Seat	St. Johns
School District	Chinle Unified District

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About Tsaile, Arizona

Tsaile is a locality in Apache County, Arizona, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,408. The population density is 91.4 people per km². Tsaile is located at 36.3033°N, 109.2157°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 86556.

Tsaile occupies a high-altitude plateau where the thin, crisp air carries the scent of dry earth and sagebrush across a landscape defined by the persistent, winding path of Agua Sal Creek. It lies 59.7 miles north-northwest of Gallup, NM (from Gallup, NM: bearing 334°T), and is situated 21.4 miles east-northeast of Chinle. Fine-grained sediment and scrub brush coat the terrain, stretching toward the jagged silhouette of Red Cornfield Mesa, which dominates the eastern horizon like a sentinel of oxidized stone. Tsaile Lake sits only a mile away, its surface often mirroring the vast, unpolluted intensity of the sky as light shifts from a sharp, clinical white at midday to a bruised, violet-gold during the long transition into evening. The terrain here feels expansive and indifferent to the passage of human time, with the wind carving invisible channels through the brush, leaving the land feeling scrubbed clean by the elements.

Economic life in Tsaile remains tethered to the rhythms of the Navajo Nation, drawing strength from the presence of Diné College, which serves as a center for intellectual and cultural preservation. History here is felt rather than displayed, lingering in the quiet endurance of the people who maintain traditional pastoral practices alongside the demands of modern education. Although the Spanish Trail lies seven miles distant as a reminder of ancient, long-traveled routes, the contemporary focus remains internal, centered on the sustainment of the community and the stewardship of the surrounding high desert. Life moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, where the primary labor involves adapting to the arid climate and the occasional, sudden violence of monsoon thunderheads that roll in to saturate the parched soil before vanishing into the mile-deep silences of the high plateau.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Massacre Cave (Historic Ruins) — 9.1 mi, 241° SW
Mummy Cave Ruin (Historic Ruins) — 9.2 mi, 238° SW
Yucca Cave Overlook (Viewpoint) — 9.2 mi, 240° SW
Snake Bridge (Attraction) — 13.6 mi, 054° NE
Spider Rock (Attraction) — 15.5 mi, 209° SW
Royal Arch (Attraction) — 21.1 mi, 356° N
Cleopatra Needle (Attraction) — 26.9 mi, 151° SE
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 44.0 mi, 168° S
Hubbel Trading Post and Museum (Museum) — 45.3 mi, 205° SW
Navajo Fairgrounds Rodeo Grounds (Stadium) — 45.4 mi, 169° S
Hogback Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 48.8 mi, 050° NE
River Tracts Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 49.0 mi, 051° NE
Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 53.3 mi, 091° E · 48k acres
Brooks Isham Performing Arts Center (Theatre) — 55.7 mi, 057° NE
George Galaris Multiultural Center (Museum) — 59.7 mi, 153° SE
Chief Manulieto Sculpture (Public Artwork) — 59.7 mi, 153° SE
Front Row Seat (Cinema) — 61.0 mi, 151° SE
Red Rock Musuem (Museum) — 62.5 mi, 147° SE
Manuelito Area Historical Marker (Monument) — 63.7 mi, 169° S
Burger King with Navajo Code Talkers exhibit (Museum) — 64.0 mi, 296° NW
Hogan (Museum) — 64.0 mi, 296° NW
Canyons Of The Ancients National Monument (National Monument) — 65.4 mi, 008° N · 183k acres
Cibola National Forest (National Forest) — 67.9 mi, 148° SE · 1.6M acres
Bears Ears National Monument (National Monument) — 68.8 mi, 349° N · 1.8M acres
San Juan River #5 (Wild & Scenic River) — 69.1 mi, 328° NW · 1,876 acres
Mesa Verde National Park (National Park) — 69.7 mi, 032° NE · 53k acres
Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 70.3 mi, 098° E · 7,233 acres
Road Canyon Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 73.2 mi, 337° NW · 52k acres
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 74.2 mi, 326° NW · 1.2M acres
Grand Gulch Instant Study Area Complex Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 78.3 mi, 328° NW · 105k acres

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