Explore Menan, Idaho, 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 Menan, Idaho. 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 Idaho 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 Menan.
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 | Menan |
| State | Idaho (ID) |
| County | Jefferson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Boise) |
| Latitude | 43.720744 |
| Longitude | -111.98997 |
| Population | 715 |
| Density | 267.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 83434 |
| Area Code | 208 |
| County Seat | Rigby |
| School District | Jefferson County Joint School District 251 |
Menan occupies a quiet expanse of the high desert plain, where the earth is marked by the deliberate, slow movement of Spring Creek as it navigates the volcanic soil. It lies 12.4 miles southwest of Rexburg, ID (from Rexburg, ID: bearing 234°T), and is situated 5.0 miles northwest of Rigby. The landscape here is defined by the proximity of Little Buttes, which rise from the flat horizon like obsidian remnants of a cooling world. During the long hours of the afternoon, the light turns a thin, crystalline gold, bleaching the sage and bunchgrass until the fields seem to hold their breath against the vast, pale sky. To the south, the Snake River Area of Critical Environmental Concern preserves the raw, unadorned character of the terrain, keeping the wilder edges of the basin undisturbed by the encroaching reach of modern development.
Agriculture remains the pulse of Menan, with rows of crops tracing the contours of the land in a geometry dictated by irrigation and the stubborn resilience of the soil. The rhythm of daily life is tied to the harvest and the seasonal shifts in temperature that turn the air sharp and metallic by late autumn. While Ririe Reservoir waits sixteen miles away as a destination for those seeking a deeper stillness, the residents find their own quietude in the proximity of Deer Parks, where the land opens into wide, sheltered basins. Menan carries the weight of its history in the simple, sturdy architecture of its buildings and the unhurried way the local roads follow the natural slope of the basin, honoring a heritage built on persistence and the quiet labor of the land.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Menan, Idaho. Coordinates: 43.720744, -111.98997. 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 Menan includes the ZIP code (83434), telephone area code (208), county seat of Jefferson County (Rigby), and school district assignment (Jefferson County Joint School District 251).
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. |