Peña Blanca New Mexico Map
Explore Peña Blanca, 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 Peña Blanca, New Mexico
How to Use This Peña Blanca, New Mexico Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Peña Blanca, 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 Peña Blanca.
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 | Peña Blanca |
| State | New Mexico (NM) |
| County | San Juan County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 36.724172 |
| Longitude | -107.82534 |
| Population | 568 |
| Density | 39.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 87041 |
| County Seat | Aztec |
About Peña Blanca, New Mexico
Peña Blanca is a locality in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. It is a small community with a population of 568. The population density is 39.3 people per km². Peña Blanca is located at 36.7242°N, 107.8253°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 87041.Peña Blanca occupies a sun-bleached stretch of high desert where the earth takes on the color of toasted clay and dry sage. It lies 21.8 miles east of Farmington, NM (from Farmington, NM: bearing 91°T), and is situated 8.9 miles east of Bloomfield. The San Juan River carves a deliberate path through the landscape, its cool, persistent presence providing a vital reprieve from the arid intensity of the sun. To the distant horizon, the San Juan Mountains rise like jagged teeth against an expansive, cerulean sky, while the immediate terrain folds into the stark, eroded geometry of Cañon Largo. The air here carries a distinct, sharp clarity, especially as dusk settles, turning the shadows into deep pools of violet that seem to hold the heat of the day long after the light has retreated.
Peña Blanca retains a quiet, enduring character rooted in the layered traditions of those who have worked this soil for generations. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the land, defined by small-scale agriculture and the stewardship of the surrounding high desert plains. Just a short distance away, the River Tracts Area of Critical Environmental Concern serves as a reminder of the delicate balance between human industry and the preservation of the riparian corridor. Daily life in Peña Blanca moves with the steady, unforced pace of a place that measures time by the seasonal migration of the wind and the slow transformation of the landscape, leaving the modern world to rush past on the distant highways.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- River Tracts Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 1.6 mi, 223° SW
- San Juan Fishing Easement (Nature Reserve) — 8.1 mi, 051° NE
- Navajo Lake State Park (State Park) — 8.6 mi, 055° NE
- US HW 550 end (Monument) — 8.9 mi, 264° W
- Simon Canyon Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 10.6 mi, 043° NE
- UFO Crash Site Plaque: "Recovery at Hart Canyon" (Monument) — 10.6 mi, 355° N
- UFO crash site ( Aztec NM ) (Attraction) — 10.7 mi, 355° N
- D C Ball House Historic Site (Attraction) — 11.3 mi, 308° NW
- Austin-McDonald House Historic Site (Attraction) — 11.3 mi, 308° NW
- James McGee House Historic Site (Attraction) — 11.5 mi, 306° NW
- The Virgin Mary (Public Artwork) — 11.6 mi, 308° NW
- Simon Canyon Pueblito (Historic Ruins) — 11.7 mi, 050° NE
- Aztec Ruins National Monument (National Monument) — 12.0 mi, 309° NW · 265 acres
- Lions Wilderness Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 18.7 mi, 283° W
- Henderson Performance Hall (Theatre) — 19.3 mi, 279° W
- Henderson Art Gallery (Gallery) — 19.3 mi, 279° W
- Planetarium/West Classrooms (Museum) — 19.4 mi, 280° W
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 20.5 mi, 278° W
- Lehmer Lookout (Viewpoint) — 21.5 mi, 269° W
- Carson National Forest (National Forest) — 26.4 mi, 072° E · 1.4M acres
- Navajo State Park (State Park) — 26.9 mi, 045° NE
- Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 27.1 mi, 198° S · 48k acres
- Cliff Dwellings (Historic Ruins) — 31.6 mi, 310° NW
- San Juan National Forest (National Forest) — 32.5 mi, 028° NE · 1.9M acres
- Rail Museum (Museum) — 37.7 mi, 355° N
- The Gaslight Theater (Cinema) — 37.8 mi, 355° N
- Chimney Rock National Monument (National Monument) — 40.4 mi, 041° NE · 4,724 acres
- Mesa Verde National Park (National Park) — 44.3 mi, 320° NW · 53k acres
- Weminuche Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 49.8 mi, 016° N · 500k acres
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About This Peña Blanca Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Peña Blanca, New Mexico. Coordinates: 36.724172, -107.82534. 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 Peña Blanca includes the ZIP code (87041), telephone area code, county seat of San Juan County (Aztec), and school district assignment.
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. |
