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Pueblo Pintado New Mexico Map

Explore Pueblo Pintado, 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 Pueblo Pintado, New Mexico

How to Use This Pueblo Pintado, New Mexico Map

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

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	Pueblo Pintado
State	New Mexico (NM)
County	McKinley County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	35.961351
Longitude	-107.622355
Population	318
Density	4.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	87013
Area Code	505
County Seat	Gallup
School District	Gallup-McKinley County Schools

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About Pueblo Pintado, New Mexico

Pueblo Pintado is a locality in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. It is a small community with a population of 318. The population density is 4.0 people per km². Pueblo Pintado is located at 35.9614°N, 107.6224°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 87013.

Pueblo Pintado emerges from the high desert floor as a series of earthen silhouettes against an expanse of pale, sun-bleached scrubland. It lies 60.1 miles south-southeast of Farmington, NM (from Farmington, NM: bearing 150°T), and is situated 33.8 miles northeast of Crownpoint. The Chaco Wash carves a shallow, rhythmic indentation through the terrain, its dry bed marking the path where seasonal rains occasionally gather to nourish the parched earth. To the north, the San Juan Mountains haunt the distant horizon, their jagged peaks appearing as mere ink-smudges against the vast, shifting sky. Travelers navigating the arid plains near Dike Pit Tank find the air thin and quiet, save for the dry rustle of sagebrush under the relentless heat of the afternoon sun. Within the nearby Pueblo Pintado Canyon, the light at dusk settles with a heavy, golden patience, transforming the texture of the soil into something akin to weathered velvet.

Pueblo Pintado retains the quiet gravity of a place where ancestral architecture remains the primary dialogue between the inhabitants and the land. The economy here moves at the pace of the seasons, rooted in a heritage that spans centuries of careful stewardship and a deep familiarity with the cycle of drought and sudden, brief growth. While the Torreon Fossil Fauna West Area of Critical Environmental Concern preserves the prehistoric memory of this landscape, the contemporary life of Pueblo Pintado persists in the modest, sturdy dwellings that occupy the space between the mesas. The atmosphere is defined by a profound stillness, an absence of pretense that allows the stark beauty of the high desert to dominate the human experience. Here, the day concludes not with spectacle, but with the steady, cooling descent of shadows across the basin, signaling a return to the long, inherited silence of the region.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Cliff Dwelling (Historic Ruins) — 2.5 mi, 269° W
Torreon Fossil Fauna West Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 13.2 mi, 074° E
Shabik'eshchee Village (Historic Ruins) — 13.3 mi, 287° W
Hodoos (Attraction) — 15.1 mi, 005° N
Teepee Rock (Attraction) — 16.9 mi, 005° N
Hoodoo Ridge (Attraction) — 16.9 mi, 005° N
Twin Peaks (Attraction) — 16.9 mi, 007° N
Torreon Fossil Fauna East Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 18.6 mi, 085° E
Road Alignment (Viewpoint) — 19.6 mi, 291° W
Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 20.3 mi, 315° NW · 7,233 acres
Empedrado Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 27.6 mi, 137° SE · 8,997 acres
Ignacio Chavez Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 28.1 mi, 156° SE · 32k acres
Cibola National Forest (National Forest) — 31.9 mi, 161° S · 1.6M acres
Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 32.1 mi, 321° NW · 48k acres
Santa Fe National Forest (National Forest) — 33.3 mi, 085° E · 1.5M acres
San Juan Basin (Monument) — 33.6 mi, 077° E
Cuba Historic Marker (Monument) — 36.7 mi, 084° E
Jemez National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 47.0 mi, 103° E · 58k acres
Fenton Lake (Monument) — 50.6 mi, 096° E
Jemez Fine Art Gallery (Gallery) — 53.8 mi, 104° E
Cibola County History Museum (Museum) — 57.3 mi, 193° S
San Juan Fishing Easement (Nature Reserve) — 58.0 mi, 355° N
El Malpais National Conservation Area (National Conservation Area) — 58.6 mi, 192° S · 263k acres
Lamp & Light (Public Artwork) — 59.2 mi, 334° NW
El Malpais National Monument (National Monument) — 59.2 mi, 191° S · 109k acres
Fort Wingate Army Depot (Historic Castle / Fort) — 62.3 mi, 241° SW
Red Rock Musuem (Museum) — 62.7 mi, 243° SW
Aztec Museum (Museum) — 63.1 mi, 341° N
Henderson Art Gallery (Gallery) — 63.6 mi, 332° NW
Bandelier National Monument (National Monument) — 65.5 mi, 097° E · 34k acres

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