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Alcalde New Mexico Map

Explore Alcalde, New Mexico, 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 Alcalde, New Mexico

How to Use This Alcalde, New Mexico Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Alcalde, New Mexico. 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 New Mexico 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 Alcalde.

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	Alcalde
State	New Mexico (NM)
County	Rio Arriba County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	36.088912
Longitude	-106.053634
Population	310
Density	232.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	87511
Area Code	505
County Seat	Tierra Amarilla
School District	Española Municipal Schools

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About Alcalde, New Mexico

Alcalde is a locality in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. It is a small community with a population of 310. The population density is 232.0 people per km². Alcalde is located at 36.0889°N, 106.0536°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 87511.

Alcalde persists as a quiet stretch of high desert where the earth wears a coat of pale, sun-bleached ochre. It lies 6.9 miles north-northeast of Española, NM (from Española, NM: bearing 13°T), and is situated 9.8 miles north of La Mesilla. The air here holds a singular, crisp clarity that sharpens the edges of the distant Sangre de Cristo Mountains, their peaks rising like jagged, violet teeth against the vast blue dome of the afternoon. A mile away, the Arroyo de los Chavez cuts a dry, serpentine path through the scrubland, marking the ground with the fine, silty signatures of past rains. Beyond the immediate terrain, the landscape tilts toward the deep, shadowed creases of the Cañon del Rio Grande, where the light pulls long, melancholic shadows across the sagebrush as the day wanes.

Alcalde maintains a deliberate, agrarian pace, its life cycle tethered to the seasonal pulse of chile harvests and the patient tending of small orchard plots. This locality sits in close proximity to the Ojo Caliente Area of Critical Environmental Concern, a terrain that preserves the raw, unadorned geology of the high plateau. The history of the region is written in the adobe walls of old dwellings, which absorb the heat of the day and release it slowly into the cooling evening. For those seeking the rugged silence of the backcountry, the Lemitas Trail offers a passage through the wilder reaches, while the Lower Entranas Trick Tank remains a solitary, hidden waypoint in the arid expanse. The economy here remains modest and rooted, favoring the quiet commerce of the land over the frantic pace of larger hubs.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ojo Caliente Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 1.1 mi, 302° NW
Sombrillo Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 3.4 mi, 152° SE
Espanola Valley Historic Marker (Monument) — 5.5 mi, 202° S
Gear Up Graduation Mural (Public Artwork) — 5.7 mi, 171° S
Santa Fe National Forest (National Forest) — 6.1 mi, 270° W · 1.5M acres
Chimayo Trading Post Historic Site (Attraction) — 6.8 mi, 187° S
Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 6.9 mi, 191° S
Española Valley Historical Marker (Monument) — 7.0 mi, 193° S
Bond House Museum (Museum) — 7.0 mi, 194° S
Veterens Memorial (Monument) — 7.0 mi, 193° S
Oratorio de San Buenaventura Historic Site (Attraction) — 9.1 mi, 132° SE
Classical Gas Museum (Museum) — 10.1 mi, 034° NE
Carson National Forest (National Forest) — 10.5 mi, 017° N · 1.4M acres
Castillo Gallery (Gallery) — 12.1 mi, 118° SE
Indian Ruins Cliff Dwellings (Historic Ruins) — 12.3 mi, 239° SW
Rio Grande National Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 13.4 mi, 048° NE · 19k acres
Marianne Hornbuckle Fine Art (Gallery) — 13.9 mi, 184° S
San Ildefonso Pueblo Museum (Museum) — 14.0 mi, 195° S
Pecos Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 14.2 mi, 132° SE · 222k acres
Poeh Cultural Center (Museum) — 14.5 mi, 171° S
Posi Pueblo (Historic Ruins) — 14.5 mi, 359° N
Georgia O'keefe museum and home (Museum) — 16.9 mi, 299° NW
1625 Gallery Cacahuate Local Art (Gallery) — 16.9 mi, 299° NW
Bandelier National Monument (National Monument) — 17.3 mi, 208° SW · 34k acres
Anderson Overlook (Viewpoint) — 18.0 mi, 214° SW
Río Grande Del Norte National Monument (National Monument) — 20.1 mi, 047° NE · 311k acres
Valles Caldera National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 21.5 mi, 244° SW · 89k acres
Bandelier Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 24.3 mi, 213° SW · 25k acres
Pecos, New Mexico Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 28.5 mi, 129° SE · 6,823 acres
Jemez National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 29.1 mi, 232° SW · 58k acres

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