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 | Rio Arriba 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 | Tierra Amarilla |
| School District | Cobre Consolidated Schools |
About Santa Clara, New Mexico
Santa Clara is a locality in Rio Arriba 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 space where the earth rises in sun-bleached shelves of high desert, defined by the deep, silent incision of Santa Clara Canyon. It lies 1.5 miles south-southwest of Española, NM (from Española, NM: bearing 194°T), and is situated 1.7 miles north-northwest of La Mesilla. The landscape here is characterized by an austere, skeletal beauty, where the air holds the dry, sharp scent of sage and the light at dusk turns the dust into a fine, translucent gold. While the distant Jemez Mountains stand as a jagged blue silhouette against the horizon, the immediate topography is shaped by the persistent, life-giving flow of Santa Clara Creek, which cuts through the parched soil to sustain the scrub and cottonwood along its path. Just a mile away, the quiet grounds of Plaza De Española offer a brief, manicured contrast to the rugged, unyielding geology that stretches toward the horizon.
Santa Clara carries the weight of centuries in its soil, a place where ancestral traditions and modern existence maintain a quiet, constant dialogue. The local economy persists through a careful rhythm of agriculture and artisanal craft, echoing a heritage that predates the arrival of modern infrastructure. Life in Santa Clara moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, often punctuated by the harvest of chiles that hang in crimson strings against adobe walls, drying in the unrelenting sun. Though the arid expanse feels vast and empty to the uninitiated, the inhabitants recognize the subtle, rhythmic pulse of a place that remains deeply anchored to its history, far removed from the clamor of the wider world.
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
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About This Santa Clara Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Santa Clara, New Mexico. Coordinates: 32.779959, -108.149317. 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 Santa Clara includes the ZIP code (88026, 87532, 88022), telephone area code (505, 575), county seat of Rio Arriba County (Tierra Amarilla), 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. |
