La Villita New Mexico Map
Explore La Villita, 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 La Villita, New Mexico
How to Use This La Villita, New Mexico Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for La Villita, 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 La Villita.
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 | La Villita |
| State | New Mexico (NM) |
| County | Rio Arriba County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 36.103356 |
| Longitude | -106.048078 |
| Population | 999 |
| Density | 284.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 87511 |
| Area Code | 505 |
| County Seat | Tierra Amarilla |
| School District | Española Municipal Schools |
About La Villita, New Mexico
La Villita is a locality in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. It is a small community with a population of 999. The population density is 284.2 people per km². La Villita is located at 36.1034°N, 106.0481°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 87511.La Villita occupies a sun-bleached stretch of high desert where the earth wears the color of dried clay and ancient stone. It lies 8.0 miles north-northeast of Española, NM (from Española, NM: bearing 13°T), and is situated 8.9 miles northwest of Chimayo. The Arroyo del Palacio carves a jagged, seasonal scar through the terrain, its dry bed waiting for the sudden, violent rains that transform the dust into a brief, rushing pulse of brown water. To the east, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains rise against the sky like a serrated blade of violet and deep indigo, their high peaks holding the winter snow long after the lower plains have surrendered to the heat. Just a mile away, the Ojo Caliente Area of Critical Environmental Concern preserves a fragile, arid ecosystem where the air feels thin, sharp, and intensely quiet, stripped of all noise save for the rhythmic clicking of grasshoppers and the dry rattle of sagebrush in the wind.
History in La Villita lingers in the thick, hand-molded adobe walls that pull the cool of the night into the heat of the day, a testament to generations who learned to build with the very dust they walked upon. The local economy remains tethered to the slow, deliberate cycles of the land, defined by small-scale agriculture and the seasonal labor of those who tend the soil beneath a sun that bleaches the color from everything it touches. Life here follows the pace of the seasons, far removed from the deeper, more shadowed depths of the Cañon del Rio Grande, yet connected to the broader, rugged identity of the region. As the sun dips toward the horizon, the light catches the fine, suspended silt in the air, turning the entire landscape into a glowing, amber room before the quick, cold dark of the desert settles over the roofs of La Villita.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Ojo Caliente Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 0.9 mi, 321° NW
- Sombrillo Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 4.2 mi, 162° S
- Santa Fe National Forest (National Forest) — 6.4 mi, 270° W · 1.5M acres
- Espanola Valley Historic Marker (Monument) — 6.5 mi, 201° S
- Gear Up Graduation Mural (Public Artwork) — 6.6 mi, 175° S
- Chimayo Trading Post Historic Site (Attraction) — 7.8 mi, 188° S
- Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 8.0 mi, 192° S
- Española Valley Historical Marker (Monument) — 8.0 mi, 193° S
- Bond House Museum (Museum) — 8.0 mi, 194° S
- Veterens Memorial (Monument) — 8.0 mi, 194° S
- Classical Gas Museum (Museum) — 9.1 mi, 036° NE
- Carson National Forest (National Forest) — 9.4 mi, 017° N · 1.4M acres
- Oratorio de San Buenaventura Historic Site (Attraction) — 9.6 mi, 137° SE
- Castillo Gallery (Gallery) — 12.4 mi, 123° SE
- Rio Grande National Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 12.5 mi, 051° NE · 19k acres
- Indian Ruins Cliff Dwellings (Historic Ruins) — 13.1 mi, 236° SW
- Posi Pueblo (Historic Ruins) — 13.5 mi, 358° N
- Pecos Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 14.6 mi, 136° SE · 222k acres
- Marianne Hornbuckle Fine Art (Gallery) — 15.0 mi, 185° S
- San Ildefonso Pueblo Museum (Museum) — 15.1 mi, 195° S
- Poeh Cultural Center (Museum) — 15.4 mi, 172° S
- Georgia O'keefe museum and home (Museum) — 16.7 mi, 296° NW
- 1625 Gallery Cacahuate Local Art (Gallery) — 16.7 mi, 296° NW
- Bandelier National Monument (National Monument) — 18.3 mi, 207° SW · 34k acres
- Rio Grande Gorge Visitor Center (Attraction) — 18.4 mi, 052° NE
- Río Grande Del Norte National Monument (National Monument) — 19.2 mi, 049° NE · 311k acres
- Valles Caldera National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 22.2 mi, 242° SW · 89k acres
- Bandelier Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 25.3 mi, 212° SW · 25k acres
- Pecos, New Mexico Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 28.9 mi, 131° SE · 6,823 acres
- Jemez National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 29.9 mi, 231° SW · 58k acres
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About This La Villita Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of La Villita, New Mexico. Coordinates: 36.103356, -106.048078. 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 La Villita includes the ZIP code (87511), telephone area code (505), county seat of Rio Arriba County (Tierra Amarilla), and school district assignment (Española 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. |
