Explore Little Walnut Village, 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 Little Walnut Village, 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 Little Walnut Village.
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 | Little Walnut Village |
| State | New Mexico (NM) |
| County | Grant County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 32.825625 |
| Longitude | -108.286719 |
| Population | 1,386 |
| Density | 91.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 88061 |
| Area Code | 575 |
| County Seat | Silver City |
| School District | Silver City Consolidated Schools |
Little Walnut Village occupies a quiet transition where the high desert floor begins to tilt upward toward the rugged, timbered heights of the Gila National Forest. It lies 49.4 miles northwest of Deming, NM (from Deming, NM: bearing 323°T), and is situated 4.5 miles north of Silver City. The landscape here is defined by the sharp, arid clarity of the light, which casts long, indigo shadows against the scrub brush and rocky outcrops as the sun dips behind the silhouette of Gomez Peak. A mile to the east, the intermittent flow of Pinos Altos Creek carves a shallow, stony path through the earth, drawing a thin line of green vegetation through the dry, sun-baked soil. The air carries the scent of juniper and warming dust, a dry, bracing atmosphere that feels ancient and undisturbed, save for the occasional rustle of wind through the scrub oak.
Life in Little Walnut Village moves with the deliberate pace of a place shaped by the necessity of resilience and the quiet patterns of the land. Historically, the locality emerged from the rhythms of frontier expansion and resource extraction, its character forged by the blending of cultures that found sustenance in the challenging terrain. While the economy no longer reflects the frantic prospecting of the past, the influence of the regional extraction industries remains visible in the rugged, pragmatic architecture of the dwellings. Residents often look toward the distant routes like the Sawmill Wagon Road Trail for recreation, or travel toward the deeper woodland of the Silver City Ranger District to find shade. Even as the seasons turn and the local flora shifts from pale gold to deep gray, Little Walnut Village retains a stoic, independent spirit that values the silence of the high country above the clamor of the modern world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Little Walnut Village, New Mexico. Coordinates: 32.825625, -108.286719. 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 Little Walnut Village includes the ZIP code (88061), telephone area code (575), county seat of Grant County (Silver City), and school district assignment (Silver City Consolidated 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. |