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Wide Ruins Arizona Map

Explore Wide Ruins, 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 Wide Ruins, Arizona

How to Use This Wide Ruins, Arizona Map

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

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

Latitude	35.419464
Longitude	-109.496495
Population	20
Density	19.7 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	86502
Area Code	928
County Seat	St. Johns
School District	Sanders Unified District

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About Wide Ruins, Arizona

Wide Ruins is a locality in Apache County, Arizona, United States. It is a small community with a population of 20. The population density is 19.7 people per km². Wide Ruins is located at 35.4195°N, 109.4965°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 86502.

Wide Ruins sits amidst a sprawling, arid plateau where the Wide Ruin Wash cuts a shallow, meandering scar through the sun-baked earth. It lies 43.1 miles west of Gallup, NM (from Gallup, NM: bearing 260°T), and is situated 32.6 miles southwest of Fort Defiance. The horizon is punctuated by the distant, jagged silhouette of the Red Hills, which catch the bruised purple light of late afternoon and hold it against the deepening sky. Below this expanse, the ground is a mosaic of sagebrush and fine, powdery silt, hardened by the unrelenting sun into a landscape of quiet, monochromatic intensity. There is a profound stillness here, broken only by the thin, whistling wind that carries the scent of dry dust and parched juniper across the plains.

History remains embedded in the soil of Wide Ruins, where the remnants of ancestral dwellings speak to a long, continuous occupation of this high desert expanse. The local economy and daily rhythm are tethered to the traditional practices of the Navajo people, whose presence defines the cultural character of the region. Though Ganado Lake lies twenty-two miles away and the vast, undeveloped reaches of State Trust Land offer a distant, protected solitude fifteen miles to the east, the life of Wide Ruins stays centered on the immediate, practical concerns of livestock and the seasonal shifting of the light. It is a place of stark, honest endurance, where the passage of time is measured not by clocks, but by the slow, deliberate lengthening of shadows across the Wide Ruin Valley as evening claims the terrain.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Wide Ruin (Historic Ruins) — 7.5 mi, 182° S
State Trust Land (State Resource Management Area) — 14.6 mi, 155° SE
Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area Area (Wilderness Area) — 20.3 mi, 212° SW · 53k acres
Petrified Forest National Park (National Park) — 20.3 mi, 212° SW · 148k acres
Hubbel Trading Post and Museum (Museum) — 20.3 mi, 350° N
Arizona Welcome Sign (Attraction) — 25.2 mi, 100° E
Yellowhorse Trading Post (Attraction) — 25.4 mi, 099° E
Arizona Boundary (Viewpoint) — 25.6 mi, 099° E
Manuelito Area Historical Marker (Monument) — 27.7 mi, 093° E
No Name Point (Attraction) — 28.6 mi, 214° SW
Navajo Fairgrounds Rodeo Grounds (Stadium) — 29.2 mi, 056° NE
Nizhoni Point (Attraction) — 29.5 mi, 215° SW
Old Us route 66 (Historic Ruins) — 30.8 mi, 215° SW
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 31.0 mi, 054° NE
Wind Biker (Public Artwork) — 43.1 mi, 080° E
George Galaris Multiultural Center (Museum) — 43.2 mi, 080° E
Museum of Zuni (Museum) — 43.8 mi, 124° SE
Front Row Seat (Cinema) — 45.8 mi, 080° E
Cibola National Forest (National Forest) — 48.6 mi, 093° E · 1.6M acres
Red Rock Musuem (Museum) — 50.3 mi, 080° E
Fort Wingate Army Depot (Historic Castle / Fort) — 51.6 mi, 082° E
Navajo County Historical Museum (Museum) — 51.6 mi, 227° SW
Tanner Wash Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 52.2 mi, 229° SW
Homolovi Ruins State Park (State Park) — 68.4 mi, 250° W
El Morro National Monument (National Monument) — 68.9 mi, 112° E · 1,040 acres
Bluewater Lake State Park (State Park) — 73.3 mi, 094° E
Sitgreaves National Forest (National Forest) — 77.3 mi, 206° SW · 820k acres
Mesita Blanca Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 77.9 mi, 154° SE · 19k acres
Eagle Peak Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 78.3 mi, 148° SE · 44k acres
El Malpais National Conservation Area (National Conservation Area) — 78.7 mi, 117° SE · 263k acres

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