Explore Lybrook, 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 Lybrook, 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 Lybrook.
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 | Lybrook |
| State | New Mexico (NM) |
| County | Rio Arriba County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 36.22409 |
| Longitude | -107.557858 |
| Population | 19 |
| Density | 1.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 87018, 87037 |
| Area Code | 505 |
| County Seat | Tierra Amarilla |
| School District | Jemez Mountain Public Schools |
Lybrook sits amidst a vast, arid expanse where the earth is composed of sun-bleached shale and stubborn, scrubby brush that clings to the high desert floor. It lies 50.0 miles southeast of Farmington, NM (from Farmington, NM: bearing 133°T), and is situated 40.5 miles southeast of Bloomfield. The horizon is dominated by the distant, jagged silhouettes of the San Juan Mountains, which shimmer in the heat haze like a pale, spectral promise against the deep azure sky. Nearby, the topography drops into the weathered, narrow depths of Hutton Canyon, while the intermittent, sandy bed of Blanco Wash meanders through the landscape as a quiet testament to the rare, sudden rains that occasionally carve through the clay. The air here holds a profound stillness, a dry clarity that sharpens the edges of every rock and ridge, making the transition from the golden heat of midday to the violet chill of evening feel like a sudden, audible intake of breath.
Lybrook exists as a sparse collection of structures shaped by the long, industrial shadow of the energy sector, which has dictated the rhythm of daily life for generations. Beyond the immediate reach of the drilling rigs and pipelines, the land remains largely untamed, characterized by the rugged, protected terrain of the Margarita Martinez Homestead Area of Critical Environmental Concern. While the quietude of the plains suggests a place left behind by time, the regional economy relies on the extraction of resources buried deep beneath the silt and stone. Life here proceeds without fanfare, far removed from the more populated valleys, with the nearest water of any scale, Tanner Lake, resting silently miles away, offering no respite to the thirsty, sun-drenched scrubland that defines the local character.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lybrook, New Mexico. Coordinates: 36.22409, -107.557858. 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 Lybrook includes the ZIP code (87018, 87037), telephone area code (505), county seat of Rio Arriba County (Tierra Amarilla), and school district assignment (Jemez Mountain Public 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. |