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Polvadera, New Mexico Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore Polvadera, New Mexico from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Polvadera building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in Polvadera, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
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Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey and the Census Bureau. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed Polvadera artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves Polvadera. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Polvadera brings back fond memories.
Read the story behind this map of Polvadera, New Mexico from 2026.
Find your street
Names on the Polvadera map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Streets and roads10
- Sylvia Road
- Val Verde
- Polvadera Road
- Frontage Road
- Community Road
- Valley Loop
- Encantada
- Sarracino Road
- Bonita
- Mission Road
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Polvadera, New Mexico
Polvadera is a community of 178 people in Socorro County, set on the west bank of the Rio Grande close to where the Rio Salado joins it. Spanish settlers founded it as a farming village in the 1620s. They moved north after Juan de Oñate brought Spanish rule to New Mexico, and they made their homes among the Piro Pueblo people. In 1629 Apaches destroyed the pueblo of Polvareda, and though it was rebuilt, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 emptied it.
Apache raids after the reconquest kept the site empty for more than a century, until Governor Fernando Chacón opened the area to settlers again early in the nineteenth century. Even then the danger stayed. In 1846 more than a hundred Navajo struck the town and drove off much of its livestock, and the raids ended only after the Civil War, when the U.S. Army cracked down hard.
“The people of Polvadera, and the mayordomos over the past 105 years, have kept the church in excellent condition and remains an active mission church of Socorro.”
- A name full of dustThe name may come from an older Piro name for the place, reshaped because polvareda is Spanish for dusty. When U.S. Army Lt. Emory passed through in 1846, he wrote that the town lived up to it. Old records also spell it Pulvidera and Pulvedera.
- Camp Connelly in 1862During the Civil War, Colonel Canby set up Camp Connelly beside Polvadera in 1862, on land leased from Henry Connelly, then the territorial governor. Lt. William Brady came as a recruiting officer to sign up volunteers. The Army kept the post only until the war ended in 1865.
- San Lorenzo's church, 1898A Rio Grande flood in 1898 destroyed Polvadera's church, and the village built the present church of San Lorenzo that same year. Every August 10, the feast day of San Lorenzo, the town holds its fiesta.
- The floods of 1929 and 1937Polvadera once held the main point where Rio Grande water was turned into ditches to irrigate Socorro County farms. After the 1929 flood, a new diversion went in upstream at San Acacia, and another major flood followed in 1937.
- From wine grapes to chileBefore Prohibition, Polvadera's farmers grew large fields of grapes for wine, and in later years chile became the main crop. The Santa Fe Railroad arrived in 1882 and a post office opened in 1895, but when Interstate 25 was built through the valley in 1958, the town got no exit of its own.
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
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