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Amargosa Valley Nevada Map

Explore Amargosa Valley, Nevada, 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 Amargosa Valley, Nevada

How to Use This Amargosa Valley, Nevada Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Amargosa Valley, Nevada. 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 Nevada 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 Amargosa Valley.

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	Amargosa Valley
State	Nevada (NV)
County	Nye County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	36.543357
Longitude	-116.483903
Population	1,064
Density	4.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	89020
Area Code	702, 725
County Seat	Tonopah
School District	Nye County School District

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About Amargosa Valley, Nevada

Amargosa Valley is a locality in Nye County, Nevada, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,064. The population density is 4.2 people per km². Amargosa Valley is located at 36.5434°N, 116.4839°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 89020.

Amargosa Valley stretches across a vast, sun-bleached basin where the horizon pulls the sky taut against the parched earth. It lies 38.0 miles northwest of Pahrump, NV (from Pahrump, NV: bearing 323°T), and is situated 77.3 miles west-northwest of Las Vegas. The landscape is defined by a rigorous, monochromatic palette of dust and sage, punctuated only by the imposing silhouette of Sand Hill Peak, which rises three miles away to anchor the northern view. A quiet, pervasive heat radiates from the gravel flats, while the nearby Topopah Wash traces a shallow, intermittent scar across the floor of the basin. During the rare hours of twilight, the light settles over the ground in heavy, bruised purples, casting long shadows that seem to hold the stillness of the desert in a permanent, suspended breath.

Amargosa Valley preserves the lean, utilitarian character of a frontier outpost that has long outlived its initial promise of prosperity. The local economy persists in the quiet labor of agriculture and small-scale enterprise, echoing a history built upon the stubborn expectation of finding value in the arid soil. Residents look toward the nearby Big Dune Area of Critical Environmental Concern as a reminder of the shifting, untamed nature of their surroundings, while the distant, quiet expanse of Rock Valley offers a sense of spatial weight to the region. Even the memory of Horseshoe Reservoir, sixteen miles away, feels like a faint, cooling suggestion in an environment defined by the absence of standing water. Life here moves with the deliberate, measured pace of those who understand that the desert yields nothing without a patient and persistent hand.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Death Valley National Park (National Park) — 4.4 mi, 229° SW · 3.4M acres
Death Valley Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 4.4 mi, 230° SW · 3.2M acres
Ash Meadows Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 5.9 mi, 123° SE
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 6.3 mi, 259° W
Amargosa North Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 6.9 mi, 180° S
Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 8.3 mi, 135° SE · 49k acres
Area 51 Alien Center (Attraction) — 8.5 mi, 035° NE
Funeral Mountains Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 9.9 mi, 176° S · 28k acres
View south is the cover of R.E.M. album "New Adventures in Hi-Fi". (Public Artwork) — 13.3 mi, 071° E
Devils Hole (Attraction) — 13.4 mi, 127° SE
Resting Springs Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 18.0 mi, 146° SE · 4,400 acres
Zabriskie Point (Viewpoint) — 20.1 mi, 245° SW
Harmony Borax Works (Historic Ruins) — 22.2 mi, 259° W
Mushroom Rock (Attraction) — 23.1 mi, 242° SW
Death Valley Natural Bridge (Attraction) — 23.8 mi, 221° SW
Toiyabe National Forest (National Forest) — 26.2 mi, 095° E · 3.9M acres
Spring Mountains National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 26.2 mi, 095° E · 322k acres
Mount Stirling Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 26.3 mi, 102° E · 128k acres
Migger Mesa (Monument) — 26.4 mi, 133° SE
Beatty Museum & Historical Society (Museum) — 29.4 mi, 329° NW
Desert National Wildlife Range (National Wildlife Refuge) — 32.8 mi, 083° E · 3.0M acres
Tank (Historic Ruins) — 38.0 mi, 248° W
Queho’s grave marker (Monument) — 50.8 mi, 136° SE
Silent Heroes of the Cold War National Memorial (Monument) — 53.2 mi, 110° E
Sahara West Library Art Gallery (Arts Centre) — 71.1 mi, 112° E
Century Orleans 18 and XD (Cinema) — 77.6 mi, 113° SE
Brenden Theater (Cinema) — 77.6 mi, 112° E
Museum of Ice Cream (Museum) — 77.8 mi, 111° E
Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art (Gallery) — 78.6 mi, 112° E
Madame Tussauds Las Vegas (Museum) — 78.7 mi, 111° E

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