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El Morro Valley New Mexico Map

Explore El Morro Valley, 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 El Morro Valley, New Mexico

How to Use This El Morro Valley, New Mexico Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for El Morro Valley, 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 El Morro 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	El Morro Valley
State	New Mexico (NM)
County	Cibola County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	35.036104
Longitude	-108.322607
Population	30
Density	1.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	87321
Area Code	505
County Seat	Grants
School District	Grants-Cibola County Schools

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About El Morro Valley, New Mexico

El Morro Valley is a locality in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. It is a small community with a population of 30. The population density is 1.2 people per km². El Morro Valley is located at 35.0361°N, 108.3226°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 87321.

El Morro Valley stretches across a high-altitude expanse where the air thins into a clarity that sharpens the edges of every sandstone bluff and juniper branch. It lies 41.1 miles south-southeast of Gallup, NM (from Gallup, NM: bearing 147°T), and is situated 29.0 miles west-southwest of Grants. The landscape is defined by the steady presence of the Zuñi Mountains rising to the north, their slopes darkened by the needles of ponderosa pines that hold the cool shadows of the morning. To the west, the subtle depression of Carrizozo Draw carves a shallow path through the sagebrush, while the quiet waters of Nicoll Lake reflect the immense, shifting clouds of a sky that dominates the horizon. Sunlight here possesses a heavy, amber quality, pressing against the earth until the heat of the day dissolves into the violet stillness of high desert dusk.

El Morro Valley serves as a quiet sentinel of human passage, anchored by the enduring presence of El Morro National Monument, where centuries of inscriptions mark the soft stone walls like a diary of those who traveled the arid trails. The local economy persists in a delicate balance with the environment, relying on small-scale ranching and the slow, deliberate work of those who cultivate the rugged soil near the banks of the Rio Pescado. Life in El Morro Valley follows the rhythm of the seasons, characterized by a profound independence and a lingering connection to the ancestral layers of the Pueblo and Hispano traditions that shaped these plains. Travelers who pass through find a place where the haste of the modern world is muted by the vastness of the terrain, leaving only the sound of the wind moving through the dry grass and the weight of history written in the rock.

Nearby Outdoor Places

El Morro National Monument (National Monument) — 0.3 mi, 269° W · 1,040 acres
Atsinna Pueblo (Historic Ruins) — 1.8 mi, 274° W
Cibola National Forest (National Forest) — 5.2 mi, 044° NE · 1.6M acres
El Malpais National Conservation Area (National Conservation Area) — 9.3 mi, 142° SE · 263k acres
Chain of Craters Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 9.6 mi, 150° SE · 18k acres
Engine House? (Historic Ruins) — 10.7 mi, 024° NE
El Malpais National Monument (National Monument) — 11.0 mi, 113° SE · 109k acres
El Malpais Proposed or Recommended Wilderness Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 11.9 mi, 115° SE · 98k acres
West Malpais Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 13.7 mi, 139° SE · 40k acres
El Calderon cinder cone (Viewpoint) — 18.1 mi, 107° E
Bluewater Lake State Park (State Park) — 19.9 mi, 036° NE
Roy T. Herman's Garage (Attraction) — 25.6 mi, 012° N
San Rafael Historical marker (Monument) — 25.9 mi, 077° E
New Mexico State Historic Marker (Monument) — 26.0 mi, 013° N
Cebolla Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 26.4 mi, 119° SE · 62k acres
Mount Taylor Historic Marker (Monument) — 26.5 mi, 073° E
Route 66 Drive-Thru Neon Sign (Attraction) — 27.6 mi, 073° E
Cibola County History Museum (Museum) — 27.7 mi, 073° E
The Roarin' 20's Sign (Attraction) — 27.8 mi, 073° E
Museum of Zuni (Museum) — 30.0 mi, 274° W
Fort Wingate Army Depot (Historic Castle / Fort) — 36.4 mi, 336° NW
Lightning Field (Attraction) — 37.7 mi, 161° S
Red Rock Musuem (Museum) — 38.6 mi, 335° NW
Front Row Seat (Cinema) — 39.9 mi, 329° NW
Wind Biker (Public Artwork) — 41.3 mi, 325° NW
George Galaris Multiultural Center (Museum) — 41.4 mi, 325° NW
State Trust Land (State Resource Management Area) — 42.2 mi, 256° W
Acoma Museum (Museum) — 42.6 mi, 102° E
Apache National Forest (National Forest) — 48.7 mi, 192° S · 1.8M acres
Petrified Forest National Park (National Park) — 72.0 mi, 271° W · 148k acres

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