Explore Tano Road, 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 Tano Road, 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 Tano Road.
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 | Tano Road |
| State | New Mexico (NM) |
| County | Santa Fe County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 35.737386 |
| Longitude | -105.981898 |
| Population | 1,573 |
| Density | 52.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 87506 |
| Area Code | 505 |
| County Seat | Santa Fe |
| School District | Santa Fe Public Schools |
Tano Road winds through a high desert landscape defined by the quiet persistence of scrub brush and the jagged, distant silhouettes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains haunting the eastern horizon. It lies 3.8 miles north-northwest of Santa Fe, NM (from Santa Fe, NM: bearing 336°T), and is situated 6.6 miles north-northeast of Agua Fria. The terrain here rises in subtle, arid swells, carved by the seasonal pulse of Alamo Creek, which sustains a thin, persistent ribbon of green amidst the dust. To the northwest, the land dips toward the Cañada Rincon, where the air grows thin and sharp, carrying the scent of parched earth and distant ponderosa pines from the nearby Espanola Ranger District. Sunlight fractures against the sedimentary slopes at dusk, turning the gray-brown soil into a bruised, shifting violet that settles deep into the arroyos. Residents often find their way toward the Tesuque Pueblo Reservoirs when the heat becomes absolute, or trace the dry, winding elevation changes that keep the pace of life tethered to the slow, deliberate work of the sun.
Tano Road remains a place where the modern pulse of a regional economy—largely tethered to the arts and the steady, quiet stewardship of land—feels secondary to the weight of the soil itself. The local character is shaped by a long history of overlapping cultures, where the memory of earlier irrigation practices and small-scale husbandry still informs how people organize their boundaries. While the proximity to the Dirt Jumps offers a rare, kinetic reprieve for those seeking the grit of the trail, most find their recreation in the slower observation of the seasonal light or a walk along the Chamiza Trail. There is an unspoken focus on preservation here, a shared understanding that the landscape dictates the limits of growth, leaving the community to exist in a state of watchful patience. Even as the modern world encroaches, the rhythm remains defined by the annual harvest cycles and the enduring, austere beauty of a land that demands little but constant, respectful attention.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tano Road, New Mexico. Coordinates: 35.737386, -105.981898. 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 Tano Road includes the ZIP code (87506), telephone area code (505), county seat of Santa Fe County (Santa Fe), and school district assignment (Santa Fe Public 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. |