Explore Holden, Utah, 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 Holden, Utah. 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 Utah 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 Holden.
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 | Holden |
| State | Utah (UT) |
| County | Millard County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 39.098851 |
| Longitude | -112.270771 |
| Population | 438 |
| Density | 316.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 84636 |
| Area Code | 801 |
| County Seat | Fillmore |
| School District | Millard School District |
Holden holds the quiet, arid stillness of the high desert, defined by the persistent, thin ribbons of Wild Goose Creek that draw moisture through the valley floor. It lies 65.9 miles south-southwest of Santaquin, UT (from Santaquin, UT: bearing 203°T), and is situated 9.4 miles north-northeast of Fillmore. Sage Hill rises three miles away, a solitary sentinel of earth and scrub that anchors the horizon against a sky of startling, thin clarity. A mile from the center of Holden, the land dips into the muted, dusty contours of Maple Hollow, where the shadows stretch long and violet as the sun retreats. Two miles out, the Millard State Wildlife Area offers a sanctuary of sagebrush and salt-tolerant grasses, a place where the wind carries only the sound of dry stalks rubbing together. Even when Scipio Lake lies eleven miles distant, its presence is felt in the way the air holds a faint, cool memory of water, tempering the dry heat that settles over the fields during the harvest months.
Holden reflects the deliberate, grid-based order of early Mormon settlement, where the geometry of the streets was intended to harmonize with the harsh necessities of an inland climate. The local economy remains tethered to the land, rooted in the rhythms of agriculture and the maintenance of livestock, a pursuit that demands a patient, unadorned diligence from those who work the soil. History here is not written in grand monuments but in the sturdy, utilitarian architecture of barns and the slow, seasonal migration of herds across the plains. Life in Holden moves with the gravity of the seasons, characterized by a profound, solitary independence that favors the quiet labor of the day over the clamor of the outside world. Here, the passage of time is marked by the changing golden hue of the grasses and the persistent, low-sunlight glow that illuminates the valley in the late afternoon.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Holden, Utah. Coordinates: 39.098851, -112.270771. 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 Holden includes the ZIP code (84636), telephone area code (801), county seat of Millard County (Fillmore), and school district assignment (Millard School District).
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. |