San Miguel New Mexico Map
Explore San Miguel, 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 Miguel, New Mexico
How to Use This San Miguel, New Mexico Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for San Miguel, 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 Miguel.
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 Miguel |
| State | New Mexico (NM) |
| County | Rio Arriba County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 32.153465 |
| Longitude | -106.726841 |
| Population | 975 |
| Density | 164.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 87013, 87560, 88044 |
| Area Code | 505, 575 |
| County Seat | Tierra Amarilla |
| School District | Gadsden Independent Schools |
About San Miguel, New Mexico
San Miguel is a locality in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. It is a small community with a population of 975. The population density is 164.3 people per km². San Miguel is located at 32.1535°N, 106.7268°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP codes: 87013, 87560, 88044.San Miguel occupies a quiet stretch of high desert where the Rio de los Pinos traces a persistent, silver thread through the arid earth. It lies 67.2 miles north of Española, NM (from Española, NM: bearing 356°T), and is situated 5.7 miles south of Cañon. The landscape surrounding San Miguel unfolds in muted tones of sage and ochre, where the air possesses a thin, crystalline clarity that sharpens the horizon. To the west, the distant silhouettes of the San Juan Mountains rise like jagged teeth against the sky, while the immediate terrain rises toward the rugged timber of the Conejos Peak Ranger District. Just two miles away, the deep, shadowed creases of Cañon Florentino carve into the plateau, offering a respite from the sun that bleaches the scrubland during the long, dry afternoons.
History lingers in the weathered adobe walls of San Miguel, reflecting a heritage built upon the endurance of those who first broke this sun-baked soil. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the land, defined by small-scale agriculture and the seasonal cycles of the surrounding Carson National Forest, which provides a vast, quiet border to the settlement. Life here moves with a deliberate, measured pace, influenced by the shifting light that settles over the plains at dusk, turning the dust into a fine, golden powder. While Dry Lake sits seven miles distant, silent and often empty, it serves as a reminder of the scarcity that has long shaped the character of the people who call San Miguel home.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Mesquite Community Park (Local Park) — 1.9 mi, 060° NE
- Mesquite Baseball Park (Local Park) — 2.1 mi, 066° NE
- Picacho Bosque Tract (State Conservation Area) — 3.6 mi, 332° NW
- Organ Mountains - Desert Peaks National Monument (National Monument) — 5.0 mi, 090° E · 574k acres
- Organ/franklin Mountains Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 5.5 mi, 089° E
- SFC Antonio Rey "Rod" Rodriguez Memorial Interchange (Monument) — 7.5 mi, 358° N
- Organ Mountains Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 7.7 mi, 059° NE · 20k acres
- Clock Tower at NMSU (Public Artwork) — 8.9 mi, 350° N
- Frank Bromilow Mall Commemorative Plaque (Monument) — 9.0 mi, 350° N
- Old Main (Historic Ruins) — 9.0 mi, 350° N
- NMSU University Museum (Museum) — 9.2 mi, 350° N
- New Mexico State University Art Gallery (Gallery) — 9.2 mi, 351° N
- Fountain Theatre (Cinema) — 9.2 mi, 335° NW
- El Milagro (Attraction) — 9.5 mi, 164° S
- Seismic Laboratory (Historic Ruins) — 9.5 mi, 008° N
- Pat Garrett's Grave (Attraction) — 10.8 mi, 341° N
- Miguel's Tree (Monument) — 11.2 mi, 346° N
- Rio Grande Theatre (Theatre) — 11.3 mi, 344° N
- M. Phillip's Fine Art Gallery (Gallery) — 11.3 mi, 344° N
- World's Largest Chile Pepper (Attraction) — 11.9 mi, 337° NW
- Aden Lava Flow Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 12.8 mi, 234° SW · 30k acres
- La Cueva (Attraction) — 14.7 mi, 032° NE
- Franklin Mountains State Park (State Park) — 15.2 mi, 134° SE
- Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (National Monument) — 15.7 mi, 328° NW · 5,262 acres
- Aden Lava Flow Research Natural Area (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 16.6 mi, 255° W
- Branson Overlook (Viewpoint) — 17.1 mi, 328° NW
- Franklin High School Stadium (Stadium) — 22.6 mi, 153° SE
- 3rd Calvary Museum (Museum) — 29.8 mi, 142° SE
- White Sands National Park (National Park) — 38.8 mi, 026° NE · 148k acres
- Lincoln National Forest (National Forest) — 59.1 mi, 058° NE · 1.1M acres
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About This San Miguel Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of San Miguel, New Mexico. Coordinates: 32.153465, -106.726841. 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 Miguel includes the ZIP code (87013, 87560, 88044), telephone area code (505, 575), county seat of Rio Arriba County (Tierra Amarilla), and school district assignment (Gadsden Independent 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. |
