San Jon New Mexico Map
Explore San Jon, 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 San Jon, New Mexico
How to Use This San Jon, New Mexico Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for San Jon, 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 San Jon.
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 | San Jon |
| State | New Mexico (NM) |
| County | Quay County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 35.107558 |
| Longitude | -103.328565 |
| Population | 195 |
| Density | 25.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 88434 |
| Area Code | 575 |
| County Seat | Tucumcari |
| School District | San Jon Municipal Schools |
About San Jon, New Mexico
San Jon is a locality in Quay County, New Mexico, United States. It is a small community with a population of 195. The population density is 25.7 people per km². San Jon is located at 35.1076°N, 103.3286°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. San Jon is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 88434.San Jon sprawls across a vast, sun-bleached expanse of high plains where the horizon stretches thin and taut against a sky of unrelenting, pale blue. It lies 49.1 miles north of Clovis, NM (from Clovis, NM: bearing 352°T), and is situated 22.8 miles east of Tucumcari. The earth here is a palette of parched ochre and dust, broken only by the low, meandering cut of San Jon Creek, which traces a vein of scrub brush and thirsting soil just a mile from the center of the settlement. To the far west, the faint, jagged silhouettes of the Gravel Hills rise like broken teeth against the evening light, marking the edge of a landscape that feels indifferent to the passage of human time. Within the quiet perimeter of San Jon Park, the air holds a dry, metallic clarity that sharpens the edges of every fence post and rusted sign, making the silence of the plains feel heavy and deliberate.
San Jon carries the weight of a frontier history that lingers in the weathered wood of old structures and the slow, steady pulse of a life tied to the rhythms of the earth. The local economy remains anchored to the land, defined by the grueling requirements of ranching and the sparse, resilient agriculture that clings to the plains despite the scarcity of water. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the deep, shadowed fissures of Tipton Canyon offer a stark contrast to the flat, unforgiving grazing grounds that sustain the local livelihoods. Life in San Jon moves with the gravity of the seasons, a quiet endurance that finds its expression in the way the wind sweeps across the open ground and the deep, violet shadows that pool in the hollows as the sun drops behind the distant, hazy rise of the land.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 0.1 mi, 249° W
- San Jon Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 270° W
- Llano Estacado Historical Marker (Monument) — 0.2 mi, 255° W
- Caprock View (Viewpoint) — 8.8 mi, 191° S
- Carand Collecible Museum (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 070° E
- Ute Lake State Park (State Park) — 16.9 mi, 339° N
- McFarland Brothers Bank Historic Site (Attraction) — 18.4 mi, 345° N
- Shollenbarger Mercantile Company Building Historic Site (Attraction) — 18.4 mi, 345° N
- Comanche Country Historical Marker (Monument) — 21.0 mi, 275° W
- Tee Pee Curios (Attraction) — 22.3 mi, 282° W
- Canadian River Cattle Ranch (Conservation Area) — 22.6 mi, 046° NE
- Quay County Courthouse Historic Site (Attraction) — 22.9 mi, 281° W
- The Legendary Road (Public Artwork) — 22.9 mi, 281° W
- Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 23.4 mi, 280° W
- Tucumcari Metropolitan Park (Local Park) — 26.2 mi, 275° W
- Tucumari Municipal Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 26.4 mi, 276° W
- Oldham County Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum (Museum) — 51.6 mi, 079° E
- Milburn Price Culture Museum (Museum) — 51.7 mi, 079° E
- Conchas Lake State Park (State Park) — 51.7 mi, 291° W
- Conchas Reservoir (Recreation Area) — 52.0 mi, 292° W
- Blackwater Draw Locality 1 (Historic Ruins) — 57.4 mi, 180° S
- Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 68.0 mi, 101° E · 15k acres
- Benny Douglas Stadium (Stadium) — 69.9 mi, 151° SE
- Muleshoe Museum (Museum) — 70.0 mi, 150° SE
- Grulla National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 70.6 mi, 167° S · 6,478 acres
- Sabinoso Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 71.6 mi, 303° NW
- Sabinoso Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 71.9 mi, 304° NW · 22k acres
- Pecos Theatre (Cinema) — 77.7 mi, 262° W
- Cinergy Movies (Cinema) — 78.2 mi, 087° E
- Kiowa National Grassland (National Grassland) — 79.0 mi, 011° N · 137k acres
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About This San Jon Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of San Jon, New Mexico. Coordinates: 35.107558, -103.328565. 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 San Jon includes the ZIP code (88434), telephone area code (575), county seat of Quay County (Tucumcari), and school district assignment (San Jon 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. |
