Fort Sumner New Mexico Map
Explore Fort Sumner, 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 Fort Sumner, New Mexico
How to Use This Fort Sumner, New Mexico Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Fort Sumner, 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 Fort Sumner.
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 | Fort Sumner |
| State | New Mexico (NM) |
| County | De Baca County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 34.486944 |
| Longitude | -104.217668 |
| Population | 889 |
| Density | 103.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 88119 |
| Area Code | 575 |
| County Seat | Fort Sumner |
| School District | Fort Sumner Municipal Schools |
About Fort Sumner, New Mexico
Fort Sumner is a locality in De Baca County, New Mexico, United States. It is a small community with a population of 889. The population density is 103.5 people per km². Fort Sumner is located at 34.4869°N, 104.2177°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Fort Sumner is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 88119.Fort Sumner occupies a sun-bleached expanse where the Pecos River cuts a persistent, winding path through the high plains. It lies 55.6 miles west-northwest of Portales, NM (from Portales, NM: bearing 291°T), and is situated 59.5 miles west of Clovis. The horizon here is vast and stripped of pretense, defined by the low, arid reach of the landscape that stretches toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Candy Mesa. Near the water, the earth softens into the quiet, brush-thickened terrain of Bosque Redondo Lake, where the air holds the scent of dry grass and the lingering heat of a relentless sun. At dusk, the light turns a bruised gold, settling over the flats with a gravity that makes the silence feel heavy and deliberate, as if the land itself is exhaling after the long climb of the afternoon.
History at Fort Sumner is written in the stubborn endurance of those who shaped this soil, from the layers of nomadic passage to the somber echoes of the mid-nineteenth century. The local economy remains anchored to the rhythms of the earth, where agriculture and the steady labor of the ranching life dictate the pace of the day. Beyond the reach of the Pecos River, the land opens into the expansive solitude of Gerhardt Valley, while further out, the waters of Red Lake mirror the wide, cloudless sky. Life here moves with a measured, unadorned focus, reflecting a culture forged in the crucible of a demanding climate and the quiet persistence of those who call this geography their own.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Mural of jail at Billy the Kid Museum (Public Artwork) — 1.6 mi, 205° SW
- Sunnyside Springs Historic Marker (Monument) — 1.6 mi, 271° W
- Rodrick Drug Store Historic Site (Attraction) — 1.9 mi, 237° SW
- Bosque Redondo Lake (Local Park) — 3.5 mi, 180° S
- Sumner Lake State Park (State Park) — 12.1 mi, 316° NW
- Explosion Rocks Tolar (Monument) — 14.4 mi, 100° E
- Liberty (State Conservation Area) — 27.6 mi, 160° S
- Claudell (State Conservation Area) — 29.9 mi, 146° SE
- Guadalupe Courthouse Historic Site (Attraction) — 33.0 mi, 316° NW
- Grzelachowski House Historic Site (Attraction) — 33.1 mi, 315° NW
- Vásquez De Coronado’s Route (Monument) — 33.1 mi, 315° NW
- North Pecos River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 34.0 mi, 184° S
- Roswell Cave Complex Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 37.7 mi, 221° SW
- Jesus M Casaus House Historic Site (Attraction) — 40.9 mi, 320° NW
- Pecos Theatre (Cinema) — 41.1 mi, 320° NW
- Santa Rosa Lake State Park (State Park) — 45.3 mi, 325° NW
- Blackwater Draw Locality 1 (Historic Ruins) — 53.1 mi, 106° E
- Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 54.2 mi, 030° NE
- Caprock View (Viewpoint) — 59.7 mi, 055° NE
- Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 60.4 mi, 187° S · 50k acres
- Salt Creek Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 60.5 mi, 189° S · 9,723 acres
- Old Frazier Schoolhouse (Historic Ruins) — 61.7 mi, 186° S
- Grulla National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 69.0 mi, 114° SE · 6,478 acres
- Fort Hatch (Historic Castle / Fort) — 70.8 mi, 324° NW
- Sabinoso Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 76.1 mi, 348° N · 22k acres
- Santa Fe National Forest (National Forest) — 76.6 mi, 316° NW · 1.5M acres
- Carand Collecible Museum (Museum) — 79.1 mi, 053° NE
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About This Fort Sumner Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Coordinates: 34.486944, -104.217668. 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 Fort Sumner includes the ZIP code (88119), telephone area code (575), county seat of De Baca County (Fort Sumner), and school district assignment (Fort Sumner 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. |
