Explore San Lorenzo, 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 San Lorenzo, 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 Lorenzo.
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 Lorenzo |
| State | New Mexico (NM) |
| County | Grant County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 32.805352 |
| Longitude | -107.920207 |
| Population | 148 |
| Density | 32.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 87537, 88041 |
| Area Code | 505, 575 |
| County Seat | Silver City |
| School District | Cobre Consolidated Schools |
San Lorenzo anchors itself to the life-giving banks of the Mimbres River, where the water carves a verdant ribbon through the parched, sun-bleached high desert. It lies 38.6 miles north-northwest of Deming, NM (from Deming, NM: bearing 346°T), and is situated 12.7 miles east-northeast of Bayard. The earth here possesses a singular, dusty warmth, shifting from pale ochre to deep sienna as the sun arcs toward the distant, jagged silhouette of Thumb Ridge. A short distance away, the shadowed folds of Noonday Canyon offer a cool respite from the relentless clarity of the New Mexican sky, which turns a bruised, electric violet at the approach of dusk. Silence is not an absence of sound here, but a deliberate presence, punctuated only by the intermittent rustle of cottonwoods and the steady, rhythmic flow of the riverbed.
San Lorenzo maintains a quiet, enduring character shaped by the legacy of early agricultural settlement and the persistent labor of those who work the surrounding soil. The economy remains tethered to the land, reflecting a heritage where the seasonal rhythms of the harvest dictate the pace of daily existence. Residents often look toward the nearby Mimbres River Fee for a glimpse of preserved riparian habitat, or keep watch over the horizon toward the shimmering, distant expanse of Beth Tank when the rains prove elusive. Life in San Lorenzo moves with the measured grace of a place that values continuity, where the adobe architecture seems to pull its strength directly from the mineral-rich ground it occupies.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of San Lorenzo, New Mexico. Coordinates: 32.805352, -107.920207. 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 Lorenzo includes the ZIP code (87537, 88041), telephone area code (505, 575), county seat of Grant County (Silver City), and school district assignment (Cobre Consolidated 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. |