Explore Willard, 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 Willard, 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 Willard.
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 | Willard |
| State | New Mexico (NM) |
| County | Torrance County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 34.595897 |
| Longitude | -106.033625 |
| Population | 201 |
| Density | 84.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 87063 |
| Area Code | 505 |
| County Seat | Estancia |
| School District | Estancia Municipal Schools |
Willard occupies a vast, sun-bleached expanse where the high desert floor stretches toward the horizon in shades of buff and pale ochre. It lies 42.3 miles east-southeast of Los Lunas, NM (from Los Lunas, NM: bearing 110°T), and is situated 33.4 miles south-southeast of Edgewood. The land around Willard reveals itself through the shallow depression of Chavez Draw and the stark, salt-crusted edges of Laguna del Perro, a basin that mirrors the relentless blue of the New Mexican sky. At a distance of five miles, the silhouette of Jumanes Knob breaks the flatness, providing a solitary point of reference in an environment where the wind carries the dry, sharp scent of sagebrush and parched earth. To the west, the distant, hazy outlines of the Mountainair Ranger District and the higher elevations of the Cibola National Forest offer a dark, coniferous contrast to the low-lying scrub that defines the immediate plains.
Railroad tracks once tethered the life of Willard to the steady pulse of commerce, anchoring a settlement that grew from the necessity of transit and the promise of the surrounding range. Today, the local economy remains tethered to the slow, deliberate work of agriculture, with the seasonal flow of Arroyo de Manzano providing a meager but vital thread of moisture through the thirsty soil. The cultural heritage of the region persists in the quiet resilience of its inhabitants, who navigate a landscape where the light at dusk turns the dust into a fine, glowing gold, softening the hard lines of abandoned structures and aging fence posts. Life here moves according to the demands of the weather and the stubborn patience of those who remain, finding a spare, austere beauty in the way the shadows lengthen across the hard-packed ground as evening settles over the plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Willard, New Mexico. Coordinates: 34.595897, -106.033625. 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 Willard includes the ZIP code (87063), telephone area code (505), county seat of Torrance County (Estancia), and school district assignment (Estancia Municipal 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. |