Explore Estancia, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Estancia, 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 Estancia.
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 | Estancia |
| State | New Mexico (NM) |
| County | Torrance County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 34.764273 |
| Longitude | -106.038558 |
| Population | 1,242 |
| Density | 77.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 87016 |
| Area Code | 505 |
| County Seat | Estancia |
| School District | Estancia Municipal Schools |
Estancia occupies a vast, high-altitude basin where the horizon stretches toward an infinite sky, defined by the dry, expansive reach of the Estancia Valley. It lies 38.6 miles east of Los Lunas, NM (from Los Lunas, NM: bearing 95°T), and is situated 16.0 miles south of Moriarty. The landscape reveals itself as a quiet expanse of arid plains and scrubland, relieved only by the localized presence of Estancia Park Lake, which gathers the meager runoff of the high desert. To the west, the elevated terrain of Milbourn Draw carves a shallow, subtle depression into the earth, while the distant, serrated peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains haunt the northern skyline in shades of bruised violet and pale slate. Air here possesses a thin, crystalline quality that sharpens the edges of every stone and stalk of grass, especially as the sun begins to retreat, casting long, melancholic shadows across the parched soil.
Estancia persists as a testament to the endurance of those who first settled this challenging terrain, drawing its character from a blend of agricultural persistence and the slow, deliberate pace of the high plains. The local economy remains anchored in the rhythms of the land, where the cultivation of pinto beans and forage crops once defined the labor of generations, leaving behind a legacy of weathered barns and quiet, wind-worn homesteads. Beyond the immediate reach of the fields, the proximity to Cibola National Forest provides a rugged transition toward the higher, timbered country, while the seasonal flow of Arroyo Chinchonte serves as a fickle reminder of the region’s hydrological austerity. Life in Estancia moves with a gravity of its own, indifferent to the haste of the outside world, favoring the steady, quiet work of a morning spent under a sun that seems to burn with a more ancient, unwavering light.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Estancia, New Mexico. Coordinates: 34.764273, -106.038558. 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 Estancia includes the ZIP code (87016), telephone area code (505), county seat of Torrance County (Estancia), and school district assignment (Estancia Municipal Schools).
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. |