Explore Old Town, 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 Old Town, 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 Old Town.
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 | Old Town |
| State | New Mexico (NM) |
| County | Bernalillo County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 32.512394 |
| Longitude | -107.923162 |
| Population | 27 |
| Density | 0.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 87104, 88030 |
| Area Code | 575 |
| County Seat | Albuquerque |
| School District | Deming Public Schools |
Old Town emerges from the high desert floor as a collection of sun-baked adobe structures, their earthen walls absorbing the amber intensity of the afternoon sun. It lies 1.3 miles west-northwest of Albuquerque, NM (from Albuquerque, NM: bearing 303°T), and is situated 9.6 miles south of Rio Rancho. The air here carries a dry, parched clarity, thinning as it drifts toward the distant, jagged silhouette of the Sandia Mountains that anchor the eastern horizon. Only a mile away, the Rio Grande carves a ribbon of riparian green through the arid basin, providing a stark contrast to the dust-moted stillness that settles over the Old Town Plaza. Beyond the immediate streets, the landscape stretches toward the rugged, shadowed depths of Rinconada Canyon, where the terrain loses its ordered, built form to the wild, scrubby persistence of the high plains.
Old Town preserves the weight of its colonial origins within the thick, insulating mud of its walls, serving as a living record of the Spanish and Pueblo influences that shaped the region’s early architectural character. The local economy now thrives on the quiet commerce of artisans and traders who fill the historic storefronts, trading in silver, turquoise, and the rhythmic labor of traditional crafts. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a place that has seen centuries of transition, far removed from the busier corridors of modern industry. While the nearby Isleta Lakes offer a rare expanse of water in this thirsty climate, the focus of daily existence remains tethered to the plaza, a central space where the convergence of history and current life feels as tangible as the grit of the desert wind.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Old Town, New Mexico. Coordinates: 32.512394, -107.923162. 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 Old Town includes the ZIP code (87104, 88030), telephone area code (575), county seat of Bernalillo County (Albuquerque), and school district assignment (Deming 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. |