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San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, 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 Miguel, California from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures San Miguel 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 Miguel, 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 Miguel 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 Miguel. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of San Miguel brings back fond memories.
Read the story behind this map of San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, California from 2026.
Find your street
Names on the San Miguel 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
- Old Adobe
- San Lawrence Terrace
Streets and roads48
- Tielo Street
- San Buenaventura Way
- Mission Street
- River Road
- North River Road
- North Street
- Magdalena Drive
- Magdalina Drive
- 15th Street
- Mission Drive
- Mission Lane
- 16th Street
- Bonita Place
- Darrellona Avenue
- Eleventh Street
- Verde Place
- Twelfth Street
- 14th Street
- Monterey Road
- 17th Street
- Oak Drive
- 13th Street
- Tenth Street
- Martinez Drive
- Rio View Place
- Gains Place
- Ninth Street
- Power Road
- Armand Avenue
- 19th Street
Show all 48 streets
- Aldo Way
- Tema Street
- Ladrillos Way
- Kennedy Lane
- Prado Place
- El Camino Real
- San Juan Bautista Street
- Rio Mesa Circle
- San Luis Obispo Road
- Wimer Way
- Pala Mission Way
- Benedict Street
- Cam del Sol
- Lubova Way
- Crispin Avenue
- Avenida Vis
- Poquita Lane
- San Pablo Drive
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, California
San Miguel is a community of 3,172 people in San Luis Obispo County, in the southern Salinas Valley, where the Salinan people lived long before the Spanish arrived. On July 25, 1797, Fermín de Lasuén founded Mission San Miguel Arcángel here for the Franciscans. He picked the spot because so many Salinan villages stood close by, and it became the 16th of California's 21 Franciscan missions.
The mission also broke up a long journey. Mission San Antonio de Padua and Mission San Luis Obispo lay two days apart for travelers, and San Miguel gave them a place to stop. By 1803 it counted 908 Indian people, and its herds that year included 3,223 sheep, 809 cattle, 342 horses and 29 mules. Fire destroyed most of the unfinished mission in 1806, but it was rebuilt within a year.
- Murals from the 1820sIn the 1820s the famed artist Esteban Munrás directed the murals painted inside the mission church. The 2003 San Simeon earthquake badly damaged the sanctuary, and the Catholic Church weighed closing the parish over a repair bill estimated at $15 million. The work was finished instead, and the mission reopened.
- Sold for $600 in 1846After Mexico secularized the missions, Californio ranchero and politician Ygnacio Coronel took over San Miguel on July 15, 1836. In 1846 Petronilo Ríos and William Reed bought it from Governor Pío Pico for $600. Reed lived here with his family and ran a store until all of them were murdered in 1848. Miners heading from Los Angeles to San Francisco later stopped here, and the old buildings became living quarters, a storeroom, a dance hall and a saloon.
- Back in church handsIn 1859 the Catholic Church got the mission back from President James Buchanan, yet 38 years passed with no resident priest. In 1878 Padre Philip Farrelly became its first pastor since secularization. In 1928 San Miguel and Mission San Antonio de Padua both went back to the Franciscan Order, which then restored and repaired them.
- The adobe of 1835The Rios-Caledonia Adobe went up in 1835, just south of the mission, as a house for the man in charge of the mission's lands. It was finished a year before secularization handed the mission over to Ygnacio Coronel.
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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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