Explore McIntosh, 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 McIntosh, 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 McIntosh.
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 | McIntosh |
| State | New Mexico (NM) |
| County | Torrance County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 34.881926 |
| Longitude | -106.055946 |
| Population | 1,395 |
| Density | 23.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 87032 |
| Area Code | 505 |
| County Seat | Estancia |
| School District | Estancia Municipal Schools |
McIntosh occupies a quiet, expansive stretch of the high desert where the earth wears a coat of pale, sun-bleached grasses and weathered scrub. It lies 36.9 miles east-southeast of South Valley, NM (from South Valley, NM: bearing 106°T), and is situated 8.7 miles south of Moriarty. Beyond the immediate basin of Cienega Draw, the horizon remains wide and uncluttered, save for the faint, serrated silhouette of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains lingering in the distant north. The air here holds a thin, crystalline clarity, sharpening the edges of the afternoon shadows until they appear cut from dark velvet against the tawny soil. While Arroyo Chinchonte winds its intermittent path six miles away, the landscape is defined more by its thirst than its flow, favoring a stillness that seems to absorb the very sound of the wind.
McIntosh emerged from the necessity of the rail, serving as a point of connection for those carving a living from the stubborn, arid plateaus. The local economy relies on the patient labor of agriculture and the maintenance of the land, with the influence of Cibola National Forest providing a deep, timbered contrast to the open plains just twelve miles to the west. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a season, marked by the arrival of the harvest and the cooling of the evenings when the light turns a bruised, resonant violet. Residents often look toward Estancia Park Lake, seven miles distant, to gauge the subtle shifts in the regional water table, keeping a grounded perspective on a life defined by the horizon and the enduring, dry silence of the basin.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of McIntosh, New Mexico. Coordinates: 34.881926, -106.055946. 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 McIntosh includes the ZIP code (87032), telephone area code (505), county seat of Torrance County (Estancia), and school district assignment (Estancia 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. |