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Melrose New Mexico Map

Explore Melrose, 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 Melrose, New Mexico

How to Use This Melrose, New Mexico Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Melrose, 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 Melrose.

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	Melrose
State	New Mexico (NM)
County	Curry County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	34.430352
Longitude	-103.63246
Population	622
Density	142.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	88124
Area Code	575
County Seat	Clovis
School District	Melrose Public Schools

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About Melrose, New Mexico

Melrose is a locality in Curry County, New Mexico, United States. It is a small community with a population of 622. The population density is 142.1 people per km². Melrose is located at 34.4304°N, 103.6325°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Melrose is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 88124.

Melrose occupies a vast, sun-drenched expanse of the high plains, where the horizon stretches outward with a clarity that renders the earth and sky into a single, seamless theater of light. It lies 24.0 miles northwest of Portales, NM (from Portales, NM: bearing 315°T), and is situated 18.1 miles west of Cannon AFB. The landscape around Melrose is defined by the subtle, rhythmic swells of the prairie, a terrain that invites the eye to wander toward distant, hazy silhouettes like The Mesa, which rises nineteen miles away to anchor the northern view. Fiddlers Draw carves a shallow, quiet path through the soil five miles from the center, while the intermittent moisture of Cañada del Tule flows eight miles distant, sustaining the hardy grasses that ripple under the constant, restless wind. Here, the atmosphere possesses a sharp, crystalline quality that seems to strip the world of pretense, leaving only the raw, honest architecture of the plains and the deep, violet shadows that gather at dusk.

Melrose emerged from the expansion of the iron rails, its identity forged by the steady, demanding labor of agriculture and the resilient spirit of those who settled this arid plateau. The local economy remains tethered to the land, characterized by the seasonal cadence of farming and ranching that dictates the slow, deliberate pace of daily life. While the quietude of the plains dominates, the regional character finds a brief, verdant contrast at Oasis State State Park, located twenty miles away, where a small, preserved wetland offers a rare sanctuary in the dry expanse. Life in Melrose persists without the distraction of modern clamor, sustained by a commitment to the soil and a quiet appreciation for the immense, open sky that defines the character of its people.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Doc Stewart Memorial (Monument) — 17.6 mi, 095° E
Republic F-84 Thunderjet (Attraction) — 18.4 mi, 104° E
Aircraft Rescue Training Simulator (Attraction) — 18.9 mi, 102° E
Explosion Rocks Tolar (Monument) — 19.2 mi, 274° W
Oasis State State Park (State Park) — 19.8 mi, 126° SE
Blackwater Draw Locality 1 (Historic Ruins) — 20.6 mi, 121° SE
Portales Recreation Complex (Local Park) — 22.4 mi, 140° SE
OG Potter Memorial (Monument) — 23.0 mi, 095° E
Roosevelt County Courthouse Historic Site (Attraction) — 23.9 mi, 135° SE
Goodwin Lake Park (Local Recreation) — 24.9 mi, 090° E
Ned Houk Park (Local Park) — 25.6 mi, 076° E
Claudell (State Conservation Area) — 25.8 mi, 215° SW
Liberty (State Conservation Area) — 31.8 mi, 226° SW
Portrail of Billy the Kid (Public Artwork) — 32.0 mi, 267° W
Rodrick Drug Store Historic Site (Attraction) — 35.0 mi, 275° W
Grulla National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 38.4 mi, 130° SE · 6,478 acres
Caprock View (Viewpoint) — 41.3 mi, 022° N
Sumner Lake State Park (State Park) — 43.6 mi, 287° W
North Pecos River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 46.8 mi, 230° SW
Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 51.1 mi, 353° N
Benny Douglas Stadium (Stadium) — 53.3 mi, 105° E
Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 57.7 mi, 123° SE · 14k acres
Lesser Prairie Chicken Habitat Preservation Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 59.1 mi, 188° S
Carand Collecible Museum (Museum) — 59.6 mi, 030° NE
Neeley Ward School (Historic Ruins) — 62.2 mi, 138° SE
Pecos Theatre (Cinema) — 69.5 mi, 301° NW
Texas' Last Frontier Historical Museum (Museum) — 69.8 mi, 134° SE
Salt Creek Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 70.3 mi, 217° SW · 9,723 acres

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