Enter your search query in the box below.

Santa Clara New Mexico Map

Explore Santa Clara, 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 Santa Clara, New Mexico

How to Use This Santa Clara, New Mexico Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Santa Clara, 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 Santa Clara.

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	Santa Clara
State	New Mexico (NM)
County	Grant County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	32.779959
Longitude	-108.149317
Population	1,637
Density	317.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	88026, 87532, 88022
Area Code	505, 575
County Seat	Silver City
School District	Cobre Consolidated Schools

🌦 Goto Santa Clara Weather Page: Santa Clara, New Mexico — Weather Warnings, Forecast, Radar, Satellite & Current Conditions

About Santa Clara, New Mexico

Santa Clara is a locality in Grant County, New Mexico, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,637. The population density is 317.6 people per km². Santa Clara is located at 32.7800°N, 108.1493°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Santa Clara is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 88026, 87532, 88022.

Santa Clara occupies a sun-bleached expanse where the arid breath of the high desert defines the horizon. It lies 42.0 miles north-northwest of Deming, NM (from Deming, NM: bearing 327°T), and is situated 7.6 miles east of Silver City. Cameron Creek traces a wandering, silver-threaded path through the terrain, its banks providing a subtle reprieve from the dry, golden grasses that blanket the basin floor. To the east, the jagged silhouette of the Silver City Range commands the skyline, casting long, violet shadows as the afternoon wanes. The air here carries a crystalline sharpness, thinning slightly as it rises toward the distant, timbered slopes of the Silver City Ranger District, while the nearby expanse of Yellowdog Gulch remains a quiet testament to the slow, relentless shaping of the earth by wind and seasonal runoff.

Santa Clara traces its endurance to a legacy of extraction, having long served as a pivot point for the mineral wealth that once drew prospectors into the surrounding hills. Today, the pace of life maintains a deliberate, quiet cadence, centered around the modest amenities of the Central Community Recreation Park, where the local rhythm is measured by the shifting intensity of the sun rather than the ticking of a clock. Residents often look toward the history of the Wood Haul Wagon Road Trail, which echoes with the memory of commerce and transit from an earlier era. Water remains a precious, fleeting commodity, gathered occasionally in the basin of Flat Tank, ensuring that the inhabitants of Santa Clara remain ever mindful of the delicate equilibrium between their quiet lives and the unyielding, magnificent severity of the New Mexico landscape.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ft. Bayard Mil. Res. Other (National Forest) — 0.0 mi, 011° N · 1,521 acres
Bataan Park (Local Park) — 0.5 mi, 325° NW
Gila National Forest (National Forest) — 1.0 mi, 020° N · 2.7M acres
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 1.4 mi, 138° SE
Silver City Ball Park (Local Recreation) — 5.6 mi, 278° W
Thomas Conway House Historic Site (Attraction) — 7.4 mi, 267° W
Bullard Hotel Historic Site (Attraction) — 7.4 mi, 264° W
Penny Park Mosaics (Public Artwork) — 7.4 mi, 270° W
H B Ailman House Historic Site (Attraction) — 7.5 mi, 265° W
Martin Maher House Historic Site (Attraction) — 7.5 mi, 265° W
Western New Mexico University Museum (Museum) — 7.7 mi, 269° W
Fine Arts Center Theater (Theatre) — 8.0 mi, 269° W
Webb Theater (Theatre) — 8.0 mi, 269° W
The Net (Viewpoint) — 8.2 mi, 258° W
Arrastre Interpretive Site (Historic Ruins) — 8.3 mi, 328° NW
Ben Lilly Memorial (Monument) — 9.9 mi, 326° NW
Bear Canyon Lake (and Dam) (State Recreation Area) — 11.2 mi, 050° NE
Mattocks Ruin (Historic Ruins) — 11.6 mi, 068° E
City Of Rocks State Park (State Park) — 15.9 mi, 143° SE
City of Rocks- Table Mountain/Faywood Cienega (State Recreation Area) — 16.1 mi, 139° SE
Gila Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 16.8 mi, 011° N · 560k acres
Aldo Leopold Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 21.6 mi, 026° NE · 204k acres
Cooke's Range Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 28.0 mi, 130° SE · 20k acres
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (National Monument) — 30.8 mi, 351° N · 1,148 acres
Black Range Museum (Museum) — 35.2 mi, 074° E
Graves (Monument) — 43.4 mi, 302° NW
Shakespeare Historical Marker (Monument) — 46.5 mi, 228° SW
Hamilton Military Museum (Museum) — 56.5 mi, 065° NE
Mogollon Museum (Museum) — 56.9 mi, 319° NW
The Center Gallery Fine Art (Gallery) — 57.2 mi, 065° NE

Latest News: Santa Clara

Loading news…

World News

Loading news-world…

More World News