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San Marcos, California 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 San Marcos, California from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures San Marcos 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 San Marcos, 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.
Up close
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 San Marcos 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 San Marcos. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of San Marcos brings back fond memories.
Read the story behind this map of San Marcos, California from 2026.
Find your street
Names on the San Marcos 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.
Places and landmarks2
- Twin Oaks
- Richland
Streets and roads302
- County Highway S12
- West San Marcos Boulevard
- North Twin Oaks Valley Road
- East Mission Road
- Linda Vista Drive
- Via Barquero
- Cam Magnifico
- Nordahl Road
- County Road S14
- San Elijo Road
- South Rancho Santa Fe Road
- Mulberry Drive
- Richland Road
- Grand Avenue
- West Borden Road
- Via Vera Cruz
- East Barham Drive
- West Mission Road
- South Twin Oaks Valley Road
- Rancheros Drive
- La Moree Road
- Borden Road
- Discovery Street
- Woodland Parkway
- Rock Springs Road
- Woodward Street
- Fulton Road
- Bennett Avenue
- La Mirada Drive
- Coronado Hills Drive
Show all 302 streets
- Vineyard Road
- Olive Street
- Pearl Drive
- Attebury Road
- Melrose Drive
- Knob Hill Road
- Craven Road
- Poinsettia Avenue
- Comet Circle
- Echo Lane
- Dove Tail Drive
- Rancho Summit Drive
- Sycamore Drive
- Pacific Street
- Center Drive
- Ledge Street
- Lake Ridge Drive
- Questhaven Road
- Tucana Drive
- Avenue Azul
- Armorlite Drive
- Los Vallecitos Boulevard
- South Santa Fe Avenue
- Cox Road
- Cam del Sol
- Elm Street
- Elfin Forest Road
- Richmar Avenue
- Windridge Circle
- Village Drive
- McMahr Road
- East La Cienega Road
- La Sombra Drive
- Montiel Road
- Diamond Street
- Archer
- Smilax Road
- Avenue Abeja
- Acacia Drive
- Genoa Way
- Dane Drive
- Capalina Road
- Rush Drive
- Glendale Avenue
- South Bent Avenue
- Via del Caballo
- Oleander Avenue
- El Norte Parkway
- Hollowbrook Court
- Lindsley Park Drive
- Marilyn Lane
- Fallsview Road
- Fir Street
- Barham Drive
- Edgewater Drive
- Wade Drive
- Bougher Road
- Shadow Hills Drive
- Pico Avenue
- Coast Avenue
- Autumn Drive
- Cima Drive
- Via Teresa
- Via la Venta
- Pawnee Street
- Knoll Road
- Ariana
- Quail Hill Drive
- Enterprise Street
- Misty Sea
- Viking Lane
- Berryhill Drive
- Navajo Street
- Del Roy Drive
- Deodar Road
- Via Cafetal
- Cascade
- Via Bahia
- Carriage Drive
- Violet Avenue
- Vega Way
- Hill Street
- Cll Maria
- Tesoro Avenue
- First Street
- Ninth Street
- Foxhall Drive
- Kirkwall Drive
- Cassou Road
- Augusta Drive
- Dale Court
- Merit Drive
- Hazen Drive
- Ruby Court
- Coral
- North Las Posas Road
- Double Peak Drive
- Descanso Avenue
- Schoolhouse Way
- Bella Vita Way
- East Carmel Street
- South Las Posas Road
- Silver Shadow Drive
- Victoria Way
- Applewilde Drive
- White Sands Drive
- Elfin Forest Road East
- Crimson Drive
- Rose Ranch Road
- Cam de la Cima
- Palomar Drive
- Bel Esprit Circle
- Loma Alta Drive
- Pebble Beach Drive
- Grandon Avenue
- La Costa Meadows Drive
- West La Cienega Road
- Avenue Amistad
- Rees Road
- Highbluff Avenue
- Lighthouse Road
- Boulder Ridge Drive
- Weatherwood Court
- Island Drive
- Buena Creek Road
- Solo Roble Drive
- Golf Glen Drive
- Shelley Drive
- Golden Eagle Trail
- Santa Barbara Drive
- Avenue Aguila
- Turtle Point Way
- Settlers Court
- Birchwood Drive
- Holzapple Lane
- Sequoia Street
- Windy Way
- Viewpoint Drive
- Butterfield Lane
- Via Santalina
- West Linda Vista Drive
- Attebury Drive
- Sheridan Way
- San Miguel Drive
- Black Walnut Drive
- Bosstick Boulevard
- Vis Colina
- Calistoga Way
- West Bel Esprit Circle
- Firebird Lane
- Silverado Street
- Avenue Blanco
- Chert Drive
- Collado Lane
- Auburn Avenue
- Granite Road
- Rose Arbor Drive
- Denise Court
- Valencia Avenue
- Corte Lira
- Via Las Brisas
- Virginia Place
- Lowery Lane
- Casita Lane
- Tilley Lane
- Falcon Place
- Almond Road
- Grain Mill Road
- Morgans Avenue
- Aurora Avenue
- Old Glen Street
- Quartz Court
- Cam Carta
- Antilla Way
- Via Caliente
- Skyline Place
- Sea Vista Place
- Fairlane Avenue
- Jason Lane
- Venice Avenue
- Adena
- Wild Iris Court
- Via Belleza
- Pinon Street
- Shubin Lane
- Bay Hill Drive
- Locust Drive
- Mata Way
- Santar Place
- Ash Street
- Joy Court
- Wil Ev Drive
- Via Vis
- Las Flores Drive
- Windemere Drive
- North Pacific Street
- Festival Road
- Civic Center Drive
- Sagewood Way
- Catherine Avenue
- Palomarcos Avenue
- Supreme Court
- Phoenix Way
- Corte Loren
- North City Drive
- Douglas Avenue
- Vallecitos de Oro
- Corbel Way
- Sun Valley Road
- Himalaya Drive
- Sandy Lane
- Sutter Lane
- Pyrenees Drive
- Toyon Terrace
- Arbor Lane
- Cmt Amarillo
- Saint Paul Drive
- South Pacific Street
- Jewel Road
- Lupine Drive
- Borden Circle
- Creekside Place
- Cycad Drive
- Orla Street
- Casa Real Lane
- Acorn Road
- Felicia Lane
- Via Perlita
- Banjo Court
- Elena Drive
- Ryan Drive
- Matin Circle
- Glencrest
- Campus View Drive
- Ivy Hill Road
- Woods Drive
- Luminara Way
- Gemstone Drive
- English Holly Lane
- Trenton Way
- Concord Place
- Roadrunner Road
- Mission Hills Court
- Somerset Place
- Los Vallecito Bl
- Terrace Lane
- Silk Mill Place
- Via del Prado
- Avenido Azul
- Deadwood Drive
- Avenue Amigo
- Brighton Glen Road
- Stoneridge Way
- Melinda Avenue
- Boardwalk
- Tanglewood Drive
- Beverly Place
- North Alda Drive
- Cam Cielo Azul
- Vereda
- Iron Horse Drive
- River Run Circle
- Anchor Place
- La Bonita Drive
- Johnston Lane
- Golden Sunset
- Cove Court
- Hilcorte Drive
- Amber Drive
- Olvida Drive
- Pso Tierra
- Eden
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About San Marcos, California
San Marcos is a city of 94,833 people in San Diego County's North County region. Legend says that in 1797 Spanish troops were chasing a small band of Native Americans who had taken livestock from the San Luis Rey Mission. During the chase they found a fertile valley. They named it Los Vallecitos de San Marcos, the Little Valleys of Saint Mark, because the day they found it, April 25, was St. Mark's Day. Governor Juan B. Alvarado granted the rancho to his relative, Jose María Alvarado, on April 22, 1840.
John H. Barham founded the area's first town in 1883, and by 1884 it had a post office, a blacksmith, a feed store and a weekly newspaper. The first town of San Marcos sat about a mile north of Barham. In 1887 the Santa Fe Railroad promised to build through the valley, but its tracks ran one mile from the center of San Marcos. Barham faded because it was far from the railroad, and its school, started in 1886, moved to San Marcos three years later. To avoid that fate, residents moved their homes a couple of miles east along the tracks in 1903, and the new town grew up at what are now Mission Road and Pico Avenue.
- Wine and honey in Twin OaksJose María Alvarado died in 1846, one of those killed in the Pauma Massacre. His widow sold the rancho to Lorenzo Soto, who sold part of it to Cave Couts in the late 1850s, and the Couts family raised livestock there. The first permanent settler was Major Gustavus French Merriam of Topeka, Kansas. He homesteaded 160 acres in the north Twin Oaks Valley and made wine and honey.
- Colorado River water in 1956For decades San Marcos lived on farming, and later on dairies and poultry. Colorado River water first reached the valley in 1956, new businesses opened, and the population quickly reached 2,500. The city incorporated on January 28, 1963. In the 1970s it was the third fastest-growing city in California, and it had 17,479 people by 1980.
- The Red Barn of 1952The Williams Barn, built in 1952 to look like a big red barn, serves as a community center and reception hall. It stands in Walnut Grove Park in Twin Oaks, beside a group of historic houses from around the city that the San Marcos Historical Society looks after.
- Two college towns in onePalomar College has its main 200-acre campus in northern San Marcos, and the giant letter P on the hill above it can be seen for miles. Cal State San Marcos was founded in 1989 on a 304-acre hillside in the southeastern part of the city.
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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
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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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