Explore House, 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 House, 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 House.
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 | House |
| State | New Mexico (NM) |
| County | Quay County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 34.646733 |
| Longitude | -103.904411 |
| Population | 56 |
| Density | 23.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 88121 |
| Area Code | 575 |
| County Seat | Tucumcari |
| School District | House Municipal Schools |
House sits upon the high, arid plains of eastern New Mexico, where the horizon stretches into an unrelenting line of pale blue and burnt umber. It lies 43.2 miles west-northwest of Clovis, NM (from Clovis, NM: bearing 293°T), and is situated 45.5 miles northwest of Portales. The terrain around House is defined by its wide, open expanse, interrupted only by the subtle descent toward the bed of Alamosa Creek, which winds its way through the landscape just one mile away. Toward the western skyline, the distant silhouette of Piñon Point rises as a jagged anchor, while the arid basin of Peach Canyon remains a silent, nine-mile neighbor to the north. When the late afternoon sun strikes the dry grasses, the entire landscape glows with a fleeting, bruised gold, turning the dust of the plains into a fine, shimmering powder that hangs in the still air.
Agriculture serves as the quiet pulse of House, a place where the economy remains tethered to the patient labor of cultivating the soil and tending to livestock. The history of the region is written in the resilient character of those who chose to settle in this vast space, building lives that respect the scarcity of water and the long, sun-drenched days. While Caballo Lake lies three miles distant, its presence is more of a geological fact than a daily feature of life for those focused on the dry, productive fields of the high plains. Here, the pace of existence is measured by the seasonal demands of the harvest and the slow, circular turn of the year, fostering a culture of independence that feels as expansive as the sky above.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of House, New Mexico. Coordinates: 34.646733, -103.904411. 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 House includes the ZIP code (88121), telephone area code (575), county seat of Quay County (Tucumcari), and school district assignment (House 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. |