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Caballo New Mexico Map

Explore Caballo, 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 Caballo, New Mexico

How to Use This Caballo, New Mexico Map

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

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	Caballo
State	New Mexico (NM)
County	Sierra County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	32.975627
Longitude	-107.307803
Population	77
Density	30.3 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	87931
Area Code	575
County Seat	Truth or Consequences
School District	Truth or Consequences Schools

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About Caballo, New Mexico

Caballo is a locality in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States. It is a small community with a population of 77. The population density is 30.3 people per km². Caballo is located at 32.9756°N, 107.3078°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 87931.

Caballo occupies a sun-drenched expanse of high desert where the horizon is dominated by the jagged, austere profile of the Caballo Mountains. It lies 55.2 miles northwest of Las Cruces, NM (from Las Cruces, NM: bearing 326°T), and is situated 11.0 miles south-southwest of Truth or Consequences. The landscape here is defined by an uncompromising clarity of light, which renders the scrub brush and rocky outcrops in sharp, high-contrast relief against the pale, dusty earth. To the west, the terrain breaks into the rugged, shadowed folds of Chambers Canyon, while the flat, arid plains stretch out to meet the sky, offering a stark beauty that shifts from bleached gold at noon to a deep, bruised violet as the shadows lengthen. Water acts as the essential anchor for this environment, with Caballo Reservoir providing a vast, reflective stillness that mirrors the expansive New Mexico heavens and draws the eye toward the distant, hazy peaks.

Caballo remains a place where the rhythms of the land dictate the pace of life, reflecting a legacy built upon irrigation and the patient cultivation of the arid soil. The economy finds its pulse in the nearby Caballo Lake State Park, which serves as a quiet refuge for those seeking the stillness of the desert, while the occasional trickle of Las Animas Creek provides a subtle, life-sustaining vein through the parched ground. History here is quiet and layered, held in the weathered textures of the architecture and the slow, deliberate movement of local agriculture that has persisted despite the harshness of the climate. Residents move with an awareness of the environment’s scarcity, recognizing that in Caballo, the value of a place is measured not by the density of its development, but by the quiet endurance of its landscape and the persistence of its people against the heat and the wind.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Caballo Lake State Park (State Park) — 0.0 mi, 090° E
Caballo Mountains Historic Marker (Monument) — 1.6 mi, 189° S
Percha Dam State Park (State Park) — 6.6 mi, 180° S
Palomas Gap (Attraction) — 7.0 mi, 042° NE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 9.5 mi, 004° N
Veterans' Memorial (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 014° N
Hamilton Military Museum (Museum) — 10.4 mi, 014° N
Carrie TIngley Historic Marker (Monument) — 10.5 mi, 014° N
Spaceport America Visitor's Center (Attraction) — 11.0 mi, 016° N
The Center Gallery Fine Art (Gallery) — 11.1 mi, 016° N
Geronimo Springs Museum (Museum) — 11.1 mi, 017° N
El Cortez Theater (Cinema) — 11.1 mi, 016° N
Black Range Museum (Museum) — 15.5 mi, 256° W
Long Point (Attraction) — 19.2 mi, 020° N
Gila National Forest (National Forest) — 19.3 mi, 256° W · 2.7M acres
Aldo Leopold Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 22.9 mi, 281° W · 204k acres
Teako's Giants of Hatch (Attraction) — 23.2 mi, 157° SE
Organ Mountains - Desert Peaks National Monument (National Monument) — 24.4 mi, 161° S · 574k acres
Sierra de las Uvas Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 26.2 mi, 168° S · 13k acres
Emory Pass Vista (Viewpoint) — 26.8 mi, 260° W
Cibola National Forest (National Forest) — 31.7 mi, 000° N · 1.6M acres
Whitmore Cabin (Ruins) (Historic Ruins) — 34.2 mi, 292° W
Cooke's Range Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 37.7 mi, 219° SW · 20k acres
Mimbres Heritage Cultural Center (Historic Ruins) — 39.1 mi, 257° W
Camino de Sueños (Public Artwork) — 45.5 mi, 013° N
Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (National Monument) — 45.8 mi, 151° SE · 5,262 acres
White Sands National Park (National Park) — 48.6 mi, 099° E · 148k acres
Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 54.7 mi, 026° NE · 114k acres
M. Phillip's Fine Art Gallery (Gallery) — 55.3 mi, 146° SE
Rio Grande Theatre (Theatre) — 55.3 mi, 146° SE

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